Part of the frantic Frank Lane/Indians off-season of 59-60, when he traded away his leading hitter (Minoso), leading HR hitter (Rocky), and pitcher with the most wins (McLish)

But Bill Veeck topped him by trading away Norm Cash and John Romano for Minoso, Johnny Callison for Gene Freese, Earl Battey and Don Mincher for Roy Sievers, and Barry Latman for Herb Score. Rob Neyer added it up in his Big Book of Baseball Blunders, and the cumulative Win Shares for those four trades was 227 coming and 786 going. Not bad for a mere six months' work.

Poor guy's tombstone's gonna have to be seven feet long to fit his full name.

But Bill Veeck topped him by trading away Norm Cash and John Romano for Minoso,

yes--that would have been a GREAT trade for the Indians, but then Lane gave away Norm Cash for Steve Demeter before Cash ever played for the Tribe

Not to rain on his parade but McLish probably did not have the longest name in MLB history; Alan Mitchell Edward George Patrick Henry Gallagher was an infielder for the Giants in the early seventies. Gallagher was known as "Dirty Al", and I don't know why.

Christian Frederick Albert John Henry David Betzel - called Bruno, St. Louis Cardinals, 1914-18.

According to a 2003 article in the SF Chronicle by Dave Bush - "presumably his hygiene has improved since his days at Santa Clara, where he wore the same unwashed uniform, jock, underwear and all, every game while the Broncos won 25 games in a row. That is how he became known as "Dirty Al." "

Never saw him pitch.

But ... when he was the Brewers' (?) pitching coach, the first time in every single game he came out to the mound against the Tigers in a Tiger TV broadcast, George Kell, in his Arkansas lilt, said "Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish." He made it sound like the middle-aged southern white guy version of Darryl Dawkins's lovingly and elongatedly named dunks. (**)

Sports in the Age of Disco.

RIP.

(**) Such as, for the uninitiated, the "The Chocolate-Thunder-Flying, Robinzine-Crying, Teeth-Shaking, Glass-Breaking, Rump Roasting, Bun-Toasting, Wham-Bam-I-Am Jam."

I come to bury Tuskahoma, not to praise him.

To tie #1 and #2 together, after the 1960 season, Veeck traded Gene Freese to the Reds for Juan Pizarro and... Cal McLish. That actually worked out well.

Gene Freese to the Reds

Freese did help the Reds to the pennant that very next year, so it wasn't totally one-sided.

Gallagher was known as "Dirty Al", and I don't know why.

if you don't know why, you weren't paying attention

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