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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Pittsburgh Press, January 10, 1912: Chicago, Jan. 10.—A rumor is going the rounds here that Harry Lord, captain of the White Sox, and peerless third baseman of the American league, is to return to his old love this year and once more cavort around the third cushion for the Boston Red Sox. The consideration is said to be Tris Speaker, the great Boston center fielder.
In related baseball news, I hear the Cardinals are rumored to be trading David Freese and Yadier Molina for Matt Kemp and Clayton Kershaw, and I hear the Giants may trade Ryan Vogelsong and Aubrey Huff for Justin Verlander and Miguel Cabrera.
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1. Jefferson Manship (Dan Lee) Posted: January 10, 2012 at 04:30 AM (#4032924)C: Johnny Peacock
1B: Willie McCovey
2B: Del Pratt
3B: Adam Kennedy
SS: George Strickland
LF: Bob Brower
CF: Harry Wright
RF: Chick Stahl
SP: Jim O'Toole
SP: Richard Dotson
SP: Chuck Dobson
SP: Cliff Chambers
SP: George Pierce
RP: Ted Bowsfield
Not that one: John Houseman
Not running for president: Matt Roney
On the Indians bench of my youth: Dan Rohn and Pat Keedy
Tidewater Tides middle infield: Kevin Baez and Kelvin Torve
* - not much in left field, though. Choosing between Jim Lindeman and Bob Brower is a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
So I grabbed the piano player and I punched him in the face
The piano player's out the music stopped
His boy had beef and he got dropped
I usually get slapped in the face when I try that.
Larry Gardner, Bos 3B 1909-1911: 118 OPS+, + 9 Rcavort, age 26 entering 1912
Gardner went on to be a starting 3B through 1922 and put up an extremely nice 43 WAR, 36 after 1911. Lord was out of the game after 1915 and had just 16 WAR for his career, 4 after 1911.
Forget Lord for Speaker, Lord for Gardner would have been one of the worse trades in history. I've never heard of Gardner before but over 1600 games at 3B and 6 more WAR than Traynor.
I almost fainted from the sheer insanity of such a move, then I realized it wasn't Bruce. Carry on.
As you should be! I know it's easy to get excited when you're around a cushion but you can't just be jumping up and down running around each one you see. A gentleman doesn't cavort.
In fairness, he was a league-average CF bat at age 36. I suspect his career numbers would look much better if they weren't 100% decline phase.
I don't! Only every third cushion.
Did the cushion give consent? Explicitly?
Take it to the Petco thread.
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