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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Milwaukee Journal, July 26, 1912: MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, July 26—Nicollet ball yard came near being the scene of an assassination Wednesday afternoon near the close of the second game between the Millers and those [Louisville] Colonels. As he returned to the bench [Louisville pitcher Doc Moskiman] pulled off his glove…and in a childish burst of temper hurled it at the bench.
A gust of air caught the glove and it whizzed through one of the boxes at the rate of fifty miles an hour. It zipped past the ruddy countenance and rotund dome of Rev. Golightly Morrill…the glove whirled around him and slammed the Honorable Adolph Eberhart squarely in the gubernatorial eye. The governor wiped out his eye and laughed, but not G.L.
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A later examination of the glove showed that it was not injured in the slightest degree by contact with the eagle eye of His Excellency. A cursory slant at his official niblets disclosed that he wasn’t scratched. All’s well that ends well.
A much happier ending than the Reggie Jackson-Queen Elizabeth incident.
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C: Larry Woodall
1B: Sam Leslie
2B: Jimmy Bloodworth
3B: Pete Ward
SS: Jody Reed
LF: Norm Siebern
CF: Tom Saffell
RF: Bill Hassamaer
SP: Freddie Fitzsimmons
SP: Sad Sam Jones
SP: Ellis Kinder
SP: Brandon Morrow
SP: Marty Bystrom
RP: Hoyt Wilhelm
RP: Joaquin Benoit
PH: Greg Colbrunn
Utilityman: Sibby Sisti
Owner: Sam Breadon
Umpire: Ken Kaiser
Fun Names: Tricky Nichols, Horatio Munn, Otto McIvor
He's absolutely clueless out there on the mound now.
He's given up 47 ER in the last 9 starts (8.08 ERA).
Since the season is almost surely over for the Jays (their starting catcher, Arencibia, is now out 6-8 weeks), maybe they can try and "Halladay" him by sending him down to A-ball and having someone rework his mechanics. At this point, he has zero confidence in himself.
Side note:
I see that Francisco Cordero is still blowing saves, even after leaving the Jays.
The Jays automatically won that deal with the Astros, just by getting him off their roster.
July's strength--not reflected really in the column--is their pen: Wilhelm, Wagner and Gossage all born this month.
Roarin' Bill Hasssamer. When I wrote my book, I mentioned him in the section on Gus Schmelz. When I had people proofread chapters for me, one guy noted that I misspelled Hassamaer's last name.
To this day, I'm amazed that someone not only not only knew who Hasamaer was, but could identify a misspelling in his name on sight.
Has anyone ever done that with any meaningful number of at bats?
HoFer: Brooks?
Active: Rolen, Aramis Ramirez
Brooks Robinson, though, played occasionally at 2B and SS in his early days, as has been the case with many superior defensive 3B.
Frankly, I'm surprised that Fowler's name hasn't come up a lot more in trade rumors. I would think you could get a good bit more from a contender for him than you could for Marco Scutaro.
Ron Cey?
6-time all-star: Nettles?
I'm pretty sure the Rockies have no interest in trading Dexter Fowler. He's only 26, and he's put up a 128 OPS+ from a good defensive centerfielder. That's a building block, not a trade chit.
That leaves two others. The 6-time All-Star is not Nettles (who played every position except pitcher, catcher, and 2B, strange to say). He's alive, as I said, but older and even more forgotten than Cey or Nettles, I'd reckon.
The deceased old-timer is not a famous player either, though revered in his day for his glove work. He hit .300 only once, in a .281 league, for a 5th-place team, and still finished 5th in the MVP voting.
Well, to be fair, the guy who hit .323 with 54 HR wasn't eligible. Neither was the guy who hit .374 with 142 RBI.
edit: No
I'd love to hear something as well. He was terrific last night, as he has been in the last few starts. The only reason I've even noticed is because I picked him up on my fantasy team for yesterday with the intention of streaming him, but he has San Diego next. I may have to keep him.
The All-Star is someone I don't remember as an active player at all. He retired the year before Nettles came up.
I give you this information because just about all the information on the current team is based in Expos/Nats history, not D.C. baseball history. (And chances are if it happens, you won't hear it from Bob and F.P. tonight, unless Washington baseball maven Phil Wood sends the info their way.)
Well, from this Reds fan's perspective, the main thing he's improved on between this year and previous is what's going on inside his head. Until this year, he's always had good stuff, but, never seemed to trust it and was also one of the most easily rattled pitchers I've ever witnessed. He'd get a couple guys on base, and you just knew the next batter was going to hit a 3-run bomb. That doesn't happen anymore. He still mixes in a few clunkers, but, the last couple months he has been excellent.
Also, in reference to the Reds, Joey Votto has been out 10 games now, and the Reds are 8-2 without him. I know the teams they've played (D-backs, Brew Crew, Asstros) haven't exactly been great this year, but, every one of the regular batters, except Bruce, have improved on their season slash line numbers over the last ten games. It's like they all had the same thought "crap, Joey can't carry us anymore, time to pick it up". We'll see how long they can keep it going, but, they've been a joy to watch over the last 2 weeks.
And also never made an All-Star game I noticed when I checked my answer.
So, not to derail the guessing, but what was the deal with the two All-Star games? Why did they start and stop doing that, and was it always the exact same rosters for both games or did they pick a second set of All-Stars a month later based on how guys did in that interim month or something? This is before my time.
In '61 and '62, one game was held in each league's park (San Francisco and Boston, then Washington's D.C. Stadium and Wrigley Field). By then, holding two games was deemed pointless, and MLB went back to one game.
Ah crap. I completely spaced on him. OK, 5 players, 2 active...
Still haven't named my last third baseman :) We may have to page Harv, or some of the more senior Sox Therapy guys …
Sorry Bob. Thought we were done. Didn't mean to steal your thunder. I know the guy, because I looked him up.
Trying to research this whole single-position phenomenon, I found 34 catchers and 24 first basemen who had only played their position (or that plus DH). There are, I believe, nine second basemen, which is on the edge of a good trivia question; but the 2B are hard to guess, some of them kind of random. Shortstop and 3B are the rarer ones. Though I did find one CF and one LF who had played a thousand games without playing anywhere else on the diamond, at least in the years when the records are available. That's the rarest, because the OF positions are highly "fungible" …
Malzone is an interesting player. B-Ref has him as a good fielder, though hardly historic; DRA has him at -11 runs for his career. He wasn't a fabled glove man, though he won three Gold Gloves (including one when both leagues were included). As a hitter, he was OK (B-Ref rates him pretty good compared to contemporary 3B, but only about league average through the middle of his career among all hitters). He wasn't really surrounded by superhuman fielders on those Sox teams, and he played with half-a-dozen first basemen of mixed ability. Yet his managers never tried him anywhere but 3B. He appears to have played only one minor-league game anywhere else (SS). Third base is a position many guys pass through on their way from SS or to 1B, but Malzone seems to have been born right there and stayed right there.
Ah, you are correct sir. Like Jeter, I skipped over him thinking there's no way he didn't play another position sometime previous.
I'm bad at this.
Brandon Phillips?
I have to go teach class in a bit, and don't want to turn the nine 2B into a full-scale trivia question because I won't be around to keep score, but you are free to run it, Misirlou. Only one of the nine is a HOFer, and the first one I guessed, Charlie Gehringer, is not on the list because he had a few innings elsewhere in the infield.
I'd guess Aaron Hill. Edit: Nope, though he did just pass 1000 games.
9 2b have played 1,000 or more games and not an inning elsewhere. 2 are active, one is a HOFer, one should be, one retired a few years ago, one old timer, 2 were well regarded glove men and all stars, and the last one is pretty obscure. Won GG, played in 20 LCS games but 0 WS.
This one is Lou Whitaker.
Edit
Nope, he actaully played a ton at SS....
Edit - nope
Frank White edit: guess not
Hint: 2 of these guys have 30+ game hitting streaks.
Bobby Doerr
Lind, Castillo, Doerr, Hubbard, Whitaker, and Cano have all been guessed. Left is the old timer, not a household name, but I'd venture most primates have heard of him, a gold glove winner, multiple All Star, and an active player. One of them has a 30 game hit streak.
btw, Cora and Bell are incorrect.
edit: as is Doran
EDIT: consarn it
As was I (see #61).
Howie Kendrick for the active guy?
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