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Hey, here’s a fun team that doesn’t get a lot of attention. The 1966 Pittsburgh Pirates went 92-70, good enough for third place in an extremely tight National League race. The Dodgers won the pennant, with the Giants back of them by 1 1/2 games. The Bucs, in turn, finished 1 […]
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Today’s entrant had a successful, if brief, career in the late-’70s. Bill Atkinson, a diminutive (5′7″) right-hander out of Chatham, Ontario (hometown of Hall-of-Fame pitcher Ferguson Jenkins), worked in 98 games for the Montreal Expos from 1976 to 1979.
Atkinson made four appearances for Montreal toward the end of the ‘76 season […]
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Admit it. You’d never heard of the Worcester Ruby Legs. It’s okay, I’d never heard of them either.
The Ruby Legs played three years in the National League, 1880 - 1882. They started out bad and kept getting worse. In 1881, they sported a 32-50 record, good for last place in the […]
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Here’s an obscure one for you. Jim Mahoney played shortstop and some second base for four teams over parts of four seasons.
As a rookie with the Boston Red Sox, Mahoney collected his first big-league hit on July 29, 1959 — a single to left in the fourth inning against Cleveland right-hander […]
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Today’s bit of randomness goes back a few years. Like 1876.
John Hayes played five games for the New York Mutuals that year, going 3-for-21 with two triples. Hayes was born in January 1855 and died in May 1904.
The Mutuals finished 21-35 in 1876, good for sixth place in the National League, […]
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This week we return to the current era. Outfielder Jeffrey Hammonds starred at Stanford from 1990 to 1992, playing alongside Mike Mussina, among other, less notable future big leaguers.
The Baltimore Orioles selected Hammonds with the fourth pick overall in the 1992 draft, two slots before the New York Yankees nabbed a […]
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Today’s bit of randomness is a team, the hapless 1912 St. Louis Browns. Under the “direction” of Bobby Wallace and George Stovall, the Browns went 53-101, which remarkably wasn’t bad enough for last place in the American League that year. (The New York Highlanders — aka Yankees — managed to lose […]
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Ah, this brings back memories. The Baltimore Orioles nabbed left-hander Matt Riley in the third round of the 1997 draft. I picked him up in a fantasy league in ‘99 on the strength of his 13-8, 3.03 performance at Single- and Double-A as a 19-year-old.
Riley actually made three starts for the […]
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Here’s a fun one. Fred Johnson was a right-hander who pitched for the New York Giants and the St. Louis Browns in the ’20s and ’30s.
Johnson pitched in a total of 27 big-league games, fashioning a 5-10 record with a 5.26 ERA. Here’s what makes his career fun: His debut came […]
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Today’s entrant comes from the modern era. Right-hander John Kiely pitched for the Detroit Tigers from 1991 to 1993. Although his career consisted of just 54 big-league appearances, Kiely managed to accomplish something pretty impressive: He posted a career ERA+ of 96 despite walking more than twice as many batters as […]
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