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Monday, July 21, 2014
Milwaukee Journal, July 21, 1914: President Frank E. Murphy of the Green Bay club, in a letter to President Frank R. Weeks of the W-I League on Monday, demanded that punishment be meted out to Catcher Snow of the Oshkosh club for throwing chewing tobacco into the grandstand during Saturday’s game.
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In the affidavit it is declared the tobacco hit several women in the stand.
I guess it’s better than getting hit by a flying chair.
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1. Jefferson Manship (Dan Lee) Posted: July 21, 2014 at 06:38 AM (#4754988)C: John Bateman
1B: Perry Werden
2B/Manager: Johnny Evers
3B: Denis Menke
SS: Mike Bordick
LF: Howie Shanks
CF: Dave Henderson
RF: Geoff Jenkins
SP: CC Sabathia
SP: Moe Drabowsky
SP: Irv Young
SP: Ray Keating
SP: Wei-Yin Chen
RP: Al Hrabosky
General Manager: John Hart
Fun Name: Kimera Bartee
Not only did he relieve early, he also struck out six straight batters en route to a record 11 K's in a single postseason relief appearance.
Allen Craig
Albert Pujols
Gary Gaetti
Dwayne Murphy
Skip Schumaker
Scott Spiezio
Carney Lansford
Brian Giles
Stan Javier
Scott Brosius
Chet Lemon
Jorge Orta
Kevin Seitzer
Tony Cruz
Carney Lansford, though...*shudder*
Also, the Brian Giles who played 2B for LaRussa was an honest-to-gosh middle infielder and not the walk-happy slugger from ten years ago.
Gallego doesn't appear to have been injured because he played the next day. The one newspaper recap I've found doesn't mention Murphy at second base. It almost seems like TLR was just screwin' around because why not?
C 1963 Houston
1B 1910 Boston
2b 1961 Detroit
3b 1934 StL B
SS 1937 NYA
RF 1904 Brooklyn
CF 1905 A's
OF 1906 Brooklyn Billy Malone
LF 1940 BSN
FL 1914 KC P Grover Gilmore
The third outfielder to strike out 100 times in a season was Billy Malone who I know zero about. The first player that was primarily a leftfielder didn't pop up until 1940, so we will use him instead. The only Federal Leaguer to K 100 time in a season was Grover Gilmore, who is also a cipher to me despite him being a Kansas City player.
No pitcher has struck out 100 times in a season.
2B - Dick McAuliffe
SS - Tony Lazzeri
LF - Jeff Heath
Brainfart.
C 1963 Houston
1B 1910 Boston Jake Stahl
2b 1961 Detroit
3b 1934 StL B Harlond Clift
SS 1937 NYA Frank Crosetti
RF 1904 Brooklyn
CF 1905 A's
OF 1906 Brooklyn Billy Malone
LF 1940 BSN
So here are some hints: finished 6th in AL ROTY voting, led the AL in triples, 3rd in SB while also breaking double digits in homers.
However, he led the AL in K's as well as second basemen in errors.
Dick McAuliffe? Ed Brinkman? Aurelio Rodriguez? Which one of those guys was the 2B?
None of them, apparently. I've looked up 3 of the 4 remaining answers and don't think I'd ever heard of any of them.
C 1963 Houston John Bateman
1B 1910 Boston Jake Stahl
2b 1961 Detroit Jake Wood
3b 1934 StL B Harlond Clift
SS 1937 NYA Frank Crosetti
RF 1904 Brooklyn
CF 1905 A's
OF 1906 Brooklyn Billy Malone
LF 1940 BSN
Here's some for the CF: Until being beaned in the eye by Jesse Tannehill in 1904, which ended his season (OPS+ of 133 at the time), he was a fairly strikeout-prone hitter (14% of PA), but the next season he was over 20%, leading the league with 105, and went on to lead the league in K's two years later as the starting CF for another AL club.
He was later the starting CF for a third AL club, just missing triple-digit K's, with 94.
He led the AL in steals with 46 the year he first cracked the century mark in strikeouts, and twice more stole 30+ bases.
Although he's unrelated, best as I can tell, a fairly well-known pair of future baseball brothers--including one who is second all-time in a career counting stat---have the same last name.
And no, it's not Aaron.
I haven't heard of the other 2 guys. As someone said, they will be brutal to guess. As an example of their level of fame, Mr. 1940's Wikipedia entry is 2 sentences, one of which had a large factual error. And the most interesting thing Wiki has to say about Mr. 1905 is "When playing for the Springfield Ponies in 1902, they were playing a road game against Bridgeport. [Mr. 1905] batted a ball into the outfield, which struck and killed a horse."
C 1963 Houston John Bateman
1B 1910 Boston Jake Stahl
2b 1961 Detroit Jake Wood
3b 1934 StL B Harlond Clift
SS 1937 NYA Frank Crosetti
RF 1904 Brooklyn Harry Lumley
CF 1905 A's Danny Hoffman
OF 1906 Brooklyn Billy Malone
LF 1940 BSN Chet Ross
I did not know that!
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