Who am I?

[Dave Visbeck]

Another Who am I? #18



I'm in the Hall of Fame but not because of my play with the Yankees. In two seasons with the Yankees I only batted .143 ... not very good for someone that isn't a pitcher.

Who am I?

Say you got bit by a rattle snake ... you would be in BIG trouble. Why would you be in trouble - what BIG reason?

[26xwc]

Say you got bit by a rattle snake ...

Good hint. Answer is Big Poison Paul Waner.

[Dave Visbeck]

Good hint. Answer is Big Poison Paul Waner.

Excellent work. The career .333 hitter had 3,151 base hits in the National League before getting his 3,152 hit as a Yankee during the war year of 1944. His career ended in 1945 while in a Yankee uniform, playing one game with no official at-bats.

Paul Waner holds the major league record for consecutive games with an extra base hit (12 doubles, 4 triples, and 4 home runs) over 14 straight games of play with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1927. He finished the season with a .380 batting average - a career high that led the National League that season. He then went on to bat .333 in his only World Series of a 20-year career ... a losing effort against the powerhouse Yankees.

[Dave Visbeck]

After some consideration ...
Another Who am I? #12

I was considered the best in my time at my position. I led the league four times in fielding and had my share of batting titles... and rbi titles. I've led the league in exrta base hits. I had a lot of success at stealing bases. I can say I pitched quite well when I did. I even managed for a time but not very well on a very bad team. I should of been right up near the top in MVP awards ... so move over Barry. I think it's cute that they retired my uniform number where I played.

I played in some World Series. We won one I was in. Even though I won four fielding titles over the years, I really sucked big time defensively out there in Series play. In all of the World Series games I played in, I made an error in over half of the games I played in and even had two errors in a game twice. I made four more errors than the double plays I was involved in.

Also, one more thing. My big shnoz is bent.

Who am I?

Hint - I told you already that he had a really big honker!

[apolansk]

After some consideration ...
Another Who am I? #12

I was considered the best in my time at my position. I led the league four times in fielding and had my share of batting titles... and rbi titles. I've led the league in exrta base hits. I had a lot of success at stealing bases. I can say I pitched quite well when I did. I even managed for a time but not very well on a very bad team. I should of been right up near the top in MVP awards ... so move over Barry. I think it's cute that they retired my uniform number where I played.

I played in some World Series. We won one I was in. Even though I won four fielding titles over the years, I really sucked big time defensively out there in Series play. In all of the World Series games I played in, I made an error in over half of the games I played in and even had two errors in a game twice. I made four more errors than the double plays I was involved in.

Also, one more thing. My big shnoz is bent.

Who am I?

I believe that would be 'Ned' Honus "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner.

[Dave Visbeck]

Hint - I told you already that he had a really big honker!

Other hints - He was the first player ever to reach a power milestone that wouldn't be topped by someone for 8 more seasons. It then was topped by yet another player one season later ... that had earlier made his name with the Red Sox.

[apolansk]

Other hints - He was the first player ever to reach a power milestone that wouldn't be topped by someone for 8 more seasons. It then was topped by yet another player one season later ... that had earlier made his name with the Red Sox.

Edit: What was the power milestone?

[Dave Visbeck]

I believe that would be "Ned" Honus "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner.

Crap. You snuck in on me when I had my back turned. Damned if you aren't right!

This was something I wrote to Baseball Almanac back in January to have them correct a mistake they had made about Wagner and a few others in the game eight box score of the 1903 World Series. It's all mashed together for some reason. I was one of the the Royal Rooters back on that overcast day. As I remember it, we badgered Honus Wagner to no end with our singing of "Tessie." Dineen struck out Wagner to end the game on a day where he went 1 for 4 batting 4th and playing SS. The Flying Dutchman, the NL's Batting Champion, mostly fizzled when it counted, batting .222 for the 8 games. Sebring had been in his usual RF Position batting 7th, going 1 for 3 with a Triple but of course as history shows, he didn't score. He had 4 more hits than Wagner in the Series and showed one heck of an arm on more than one occasion. I'll never forget that beautiful first World Series Championship. It was a long wait... 101 years to be exact between our first and our 6th. Oh...Tessie is the Royal Rooters rally cry Tessie is the song they always sung Tessie echoed April through October nights After serenading Stahl, Dineen and Young Tessie is a maiden with the sparkling eyes Tessie is a maiden with the love She doesn't know the meaning of her sight She's got a comment full of love And sometimes when the game is on the line Tessie always carried them away Up the road from Third Base to Huntington The boys will always sing and sway Two! Three! Four! Tessie, Nuff Ced McGreevy shouted We're not here to mess around Boston, you know we love you madly Hear the crowd roar to your sound Don't blame us if we ever doubt you You know we couldn't live without you Tessie, you are the only, only, only The Rooters showed up at the Grounds one day They found their seats had all been sold McGreevy led the charge into the park Stormed the gates and put the game on hold The Rooters gave the other team a dreadful fright Boston's tenth man could not be wrong Up from Third Base to Huntington They sang another victory song Two! Three! Four! Tessie, Nuff Ced McGreevy shouted We're not here to mess around Boston, you know we love you madly Hear the crowd roar to your sound Don't blame us if we ever doubt you You know we couldn't live without you Tessie, you are the only, only, only The Rooters gave the other team a dreadful fright Boston's tenth man could not be wrong Up from Third Base to Huntington They sang another victory song. Please add this information to the 8th games box score... Wagner ss 4 0 1 0 batting 4th Sebring rf 3 0 1 0 batting 7th Thankyou, Dave Visbeck Red Sox Fan

[Dave Visbeck]

Honus Wagner is wrong?

No way Tulane ... you are most positively correct!

Sorry I didn't see you right off ... I was in another world. Do you mind if my nickname for you is Tulane? You're up pretty late tonight over on the east coast.

[apolansk]

I'm about to go to sleep, the life of a college student is nice, considering I don't have to be up for another 11 hours.

And I'll be back at Tulane in 55 days.

[Dave Visbeck]

Edit: What was the power milestone?

He was the all-time leader in Extra Base Hits when he retired in 1917 with ??? or ???? There is some discrepancy about how many he exactly had that I'm researching right now. The National Baseball Hall of Fame says 1004. Major League Baseball says 993. Another place says 996.

Be assured that Cobb was the next player to top Wagner's total in 1925. Tris Speaker passed Wagner's total in 1926.

Research is fun. But the National Baseball Hall of Fame doesn't like it when you tell them you think they are wrong ... and they don't respond back.

[Dave Visbeck]

I'm about to go to sleep, the life of a college student is nice, considering I don't have to be up for another 11 hours.

And I'll be back at Tulane in 55 days.

Good night Andrew.

[apolansk]

Next

[Dave Visbeck]

Who am I? #19


I'm in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Before I got there though, I occasioned a round of golf now and then and even played around or two with someone special to me.

Who am I?

[apolansk]

Who am I? #19


I'm in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Before I got there though, I occasioned a round of golf now and then and even played around or two with someone special to me.

Who am I?

Ty Cobb?

[Dave Visbeck]

Who am I? #20

I was 28-years old when I broke into the majors. Pretty good that I made it to the Hall of Fame starting so late as a pitcher. Before the time I had turned 35, I had already won 190 games. In the last game I would pitch while I was still thirty-four, I pitched a 5-hit shutout in a World Series game ... a World Series we would win the next game.

When I was thirty-five and making my first start of the season we lost the game because of a very weird thing. I'll tell you a little about it. The night before my start we had about 6 inches of snow fall. It was only April 10th so things like that sometimes happen around here. The snow didn't matter though the next day. They took the snow from the field and pushed it to the side so it was all in the foul areas.

We played and I lost the lead right off in the game and my team was still behind in the game going into the top of the eighth inning, upsetting the home team fans. Before you know it, they start piling out of the stands, a few hundred of them, and they get into the white stuff and start throwing snow balls at the home team players on the field.

The players didn't take to kindly to getting smashed with snowballs so they started throwing them back at the fans. I got involved pretty good myself because a lot of the snowballs were directed to me because I was losing the game. The snowball battle became so fierce out there that the ump's decided it would be best to call the game ... so we forfeited it to the team from Philadelphia.

I think that had to be the only time in major-league history that a game was lost by forfeit because of a snow-ball fight. Nice way to start a year after giving those fans a Championship!

Who am I?

[apolansk]

Who am I? #20

I was 28-years old when I broke into the majors. Pretty good that I made it to the Hall of Fame starting so late as a pitcher. Before the time I had turned 35, I had already won 190 games. In the last game I would pitch while I was still thirty-four, I pitched a 5-hit shutout in a World Series game ... a World Series we would win the next game.

When I was thirty-five and making my first start of the season we lost the game because of a very weird thing. I'll tell you a little about it. The night before my start we had about 6 inches of snow fall. It was only April 10th so things like that sometimes happen around here. The snow didn't matter though the next day. They took the snow from the field and pushed it to the side so it was all in the foul areas.

We played and I lost the lead right off in the game and my team was still behind in the game going into the top of the eighth inning, upsetting the home team fans. Before you know it, they start piling out of the stands, a few hundred of them, and they get into the white stuff and start throwing snow balls at the home team players on the field.

The players didn't take to kindly to getting smashed with snowballs so they started throwing them back at the fans. I got involved pretty good myself because a lot of the snowballs were directed to me because I was losing the game. The snowball battle became so fierce out there that the ump's decided it would be best to call the game ... so we forfeited it to the team from Philadelphia.

I think that had to be the only time in major-league history that a game was lost by forfeit because of a snow-ball fight. Nice way to start a year after giving those fans a Championship!

Who am I?

Joe McGinnity

[Dave Visbeck]

You got it so soon?

How did you know? And ... way to go once again Andrew.

[apolansk]

You got it so soon?

How did you know? And ... way to go once again Andrew.

I am the master of my google domain. Only one snowball fight forced a game to be forfeited in MLB history. Made it easy from there.

[Dave Visbeck]

Who am I? #19


I'm in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Before I got there though, I occasioned a round of golf now and then and even played around or two with someone special to me.

Who am I?

Some ... Like it Hot!

And no ... Tony Curtis didn't play Major League baseball.

[apolansk]

Some ... Like it Hot!

And no ... Tony Curtis didn't play Major League baseball.

Joltin' Joe DiMaggio.

[Dave Visbeck]

Who am I? #21

I always loved competing in sports and did quite well the world could say. I was an outfielder in the major leagues for some 6 seasons, playing almost exactly the same amount of games at each of the three positions out there. One of the four teams I played for in my career was the Braves. I also played in one World Series..

In one of my final three seasons in baseball, I played in a career high 103 games and came to the plate over 300 times. I was in double figures for triples hit that year, but what was unusual about that season was that my triples were double the amount of doubles I had. I don't think that is something that has happened very often in a professional baseball full season of play. In fact, speaking of hitting triples ... for the last three seasons of my major league career, I actually had more triples hit then doubles ... along with 7 home runs.

I hit a career high .327 in my final season of baseball at the age of 32. I didn't give up on sports though ... because I was far to young for that. Life wasn't always easy or good to me but from my very beginning, I was on a "Bright Path" in this world - "Wa-tho-huck".

Who am I?

[26xwc]

Answer to #21= Jim Thorpe

[Dave Visbeck]

Who am I? #22


I was born in Japan the same year that Tommy Aaron won "The Masters" a few months past my birth. As for baseball in the same year, the Yankees opened the season nine years past losing their 9th World Series.

Growing up loving baseball, and after many years of playing it at many levels, I finally made it to the major leagues when I was twenty-seven. I was now a catcher in the National League.

In my first game on the fourth of July, I did something special in my first game as a big leaguer in a win. I again did something special against the same team two days later in a loss. Nine days after that I got a home run in an American League park (against a future World Championship team) as my first and only hit against any team in the American League.

My major league career turned out to be rather short though ... I only played in two seasons. My fielding average behind the plate ended at 1.000 percent. My career batting average finished up at .333. I did do something though that had never happened in the major leagues ever before and hasn't happened since that I'm really very proud about. Have any idea what that thing might be?

Who am I?

[Dave Visbeck]

Answer to #21= Jim Thorpe

Exactly. A Native American, Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest all-around athletes in history. He became an outstanding college football player and won fame as an Olympic track and field champion. In the 1912 Olympic Games, Thorpe became the first athlete to win both the pentathlon and the decathlon. King Gustav V of Sweden told Thorpe: "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world."

Thorpe then played and excelled as a professional football player and also played major league baseball for six seasons with four clubs during the football off-season. After retiring from baseball at the age of thirty-two, he kept up with his professional football career until he was forty-two.

Two monumental honors were bestowed unto Thorpe in 1950 when he was named “the greatest American football player” and the “greatest overall male athlete” by the Associated Press for the first half of the 20th Century.


Born: 05-28-1887
Prague, Oklahoma



Died: 03-28-1953
Long Beach, California

[Dave Visbeck]

Who am I? #19


I'm in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Before I got there though, I occasioned a round of golf now and then and even played around or two with someone special to me.

Who am I?

Joltin' Joe DiMaggio.

Andrew is right again. Joltin' Joe DiMaggio later married the lovely Marilyn Monroe who is pictured in the golf photo.


Years later ... after Marilyn had passed away, every year on her birthday there would be a red rose left at her graveside from Joe D.

[Dave Visbeck]

Anyone else want to add a Who am I to the mix?

[yankeebot]

Who am I? #22 http://xs12.xs.to/pics/05035/icon_old.gif


I was born in Japan the same year that Tommy Aaron won "The Masters" a few months past my birth. As for baseball in the same year, the Yankees opened the season nine years past losing their 9th World Series.

Growing up loving baseball, and after many years of playing it at many levels, I finally made it to the major leagues when I was twenty-seven. I was now a catcher in the National League.

In my first game on the fourth of July, I did something special in my first game as a big leaguer in a win. I again did something special against the same team two days later in a loss. Nine days after that I got a home run in an American League park (against a future World Championship team) as my first and only hit against any team in the American League.

My major league career turned out to be rather short though ... I only played in two seasons. My fielding average behind the plate ended at 1.000 percent. My career batting average finished up at .333. I did do something though that had never happened in the major leagues ever before and hasn't happened since that I'm really very proud about. Have any idea what that thing might be?

Who am I?

That would be Keith McDonald who hit homeruns in his first 2 ML at-bats on July 4 and 6, 2000. Only Bob Nieman had previously accomplished the same feat in 1951. As for the other thing that happened to him......

[Dave Visbeck]

That would be Keith McDonald who hit homeruns in his first 2 ML at-bats on July 4 and 6, 2000. Only Bob Nieman had previously accomplished the same feat in 1951. As for the other thing that happened to him......

Linda ... you are correct that it was Keith McDonald! And also about Nieman some more .........

Bob Nieman did hit 2 home runs in his first 2 at-bats with the St Louis Browns in 1951. He went on to have 16 total hits in 12 games that year whiles batting .372 with 3 doubles, 1 triple and 10 singles. He went on to have a 12-year Major League career with 7 different teams, having accumulated 1018 hits of which 125 were home runs, and finishing as a .295 hitter for his career. Nieman's last hit in the majors was a single, which came against the Milwaukee Braves while playing for the San Francisco Giants on August 29th, 1962.


As for the other thing, Linda, releated to McDonalds story ............

Keith McDonald on the other hand had a brief baseball career with the St Louis Cardinals. When he hit the third home run of his career on July 15th, 2000, against the Chicago White Sox in Inter-league play ... it would be the last home run he would have in his Major League career. Those three home runs ... his first, second and final home run were also the ONLY HITS of Keith McDonald's Career!

McDonald went hitless in 2 at-bats as a catcher in 2001. He played in 8 games total in his 2-year Major League career, 6 of them as a catcher. His final line reads like this:

G ........... 888
AB ......... 9
R ........... 3
H ............3
2B ..........0
3B ..........0
HR ..........3
RBI .........5
BB ..........2
SO ..........2
SB ..........0
AVG .....333
SLUG..1.333
FA .....1.000

[Dave Visbeck]

Who am I? #23

I had a lowly career batting average of .210 with 5 different teams. I played in the American League for 11 seasons. In my best year at the plate I batted .321 with 3 triples in 41 games ... for a team that ended the year as a World Championship team. I slumped off getting only one hit in the four games I played in the World Series ... but that hit was a triple that drove in 2 runs. I was off also when it came to my fielding in that series, cause' I made one error and fielded only .857.

Talking about fielding though, only two years earlier I led the league at my position when I was fielding at .975. I also led a league 3 times in assists from my position. I almost forgot about another stat! I led the league twice in HBP - once with 10!

Who am I?

[Dave Visbeck]

You people need a clue for #23?

[Dave Visbeck]

Give you one anyway. The man stole 29 bases in his career. The last one was when he was 42! 1384

[Dave Visbeck]

Other #23 clues

I led the league twice in innings played at my position. The only other position I ever played was first base a few times, actually in 5 games total. Even though I'm 6' 2", I wasn't very good at that position because I only fielded .920. I even tried my hand at managing and umpiring in Boston and Ohio.

[Dave Visbeck]

Another Who am I? #24


If I had been a boxer I'd of been a Super Bantamweight or Junior Featherweight even though I was two inches taller than Yogi Berra and the same height as Mel Ott. Difference between me and Ott would be 511 less home runs for me. We had two different objectives on the field too. Berra and I would of related a lot better I suppose... but wouldn't know for sure because I was dead before Yogi was born.

I had the one thing going for me that kept me in baseball even though, like I said, I was basically like a string bean on the mound ... maybe even the lightest player ever to play the game and for sure the lightest weighing guy at Cooperstown.

I won 145 games as a pitcher in my career. Ended one season with sixteen wins total and only eight losses... but that was one year after my best season ever. There were two different seasons where I led the league in at least one pitching category - and one year I led the league in more than a hand full of pitching categories, and even one in batting. I had a lifetime ERA that was only right about at 2.50!

When you take a good look at me ... I sure could of used plenty of something that was caused by Reggie Jackson to happen - for me to have back then when I played ball. I liked the sound of it related to me.

[Dave Visbeck]

Who am I? #25 and #26

I played some minor league ball before the war and some at its beginning, but found myself drafted into the service just about like everyone else.

I became a pilot during World War II, flying combat missions in a P-38 Thunderbolt with the Fifty-Fifth Fighter Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. I flew thirty-three night time missions. My thirty-fourth mission would be our first daytime bombing raid over Berlin and I volunteered for it, even though I wasn't scheduled to fly that day. I knew that we needed as many pilots as possible because there was going to be low-level bombing and plenty of strafing pilots were needed.

As we were closing in on our target, I got ready to strafe an aerodrome about a mile and a half away ... coming in real low to the ground, about 20-25 feet above it. When flying into an aerodrome to strafe it there are probably 100 to 200 automatic weapons trained in on you by the Germans in a crossfire. Some of our guys had already made a pass on the field and I could see some German planes already in flames, so there was a good column of smoke to line up on as I closed in at 380+ miles per hour.

Maybe a little less than a mile from the field I take hits from that cross fire and feel the sting of a severe wound ... then I get hit in the chin and start to black out and realize I have to pull up ... but I just couldn't do it. The P-38 slams into the ground at 380 miles per hour, explodes and burns.

I wake up days later in a German hospital talk some and am happy to be alive and they give me a shot for pain and I'm off to dream land again. Some time later after I'm recovered from my injuries, I'm off to a POW camp.

Months later, Red Cross came to the camp to interview injured detainees and identify those unable to return to combat. I was examined and cleared for repatriation in the next trade of POWs between the Allies and the Axis and after 8 long months as a prisoner of war I was on my way home aboard a Swedish Red Cross ship.

Who ever would of thought that about a month after getting off that ship in New York and ten months after being shot down and surviving a 380 miles per hour plane crash ... and that coming right after being severely wounded first ... could you believe that I'd get a try-out with a major league ball club. Then, within five more months I would find myself making my way to the mound in a relief appearance against the Red Sox that season. Who would believe it? I would.

There is a lot more to my story then what I've told. I had come into the game with the bases loaded in the top of the fourth inning with two outs. The first batter I had to face ... #26 ... was in his third season of his career with Boston. I got the count to 3 and 2, and I was saying to myself, hell, now you got to throw the ball over. You don't want to come in here and walk him.

With two out and the count full, the three base runners took off as soon as I went into my windup. I threw a fastball, above the waist and on the inside half of the plate. The batter swung and missed. I had struck out the first man I had ever faced in the majors -- with the bases loaded. With the inning over, I walked to the dugout to a standing ovation from the 13,035 fans in attendance.

I pitched 5.1 innings of relief that evening, facing 20 batters and giving up 3 hits and having one earned run scored against me. I walked one, hit one batter and struck out two. I even had two balls hit in my direction which I fielded and then threw each of the batters out at first. My earned run average stood at 1.69 ... and would remain there forever. I had done it. I had accomplished my dream of pitching in the major leagues ... and it was a first.

Who am I? Who was the first batter I faced and struck out? What had I accomplished?




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[Dave Visbeck]

Who am I?

[Dave Visbeck]

Who am I? Also, what was the Thanksgiving date in November that I was born ... along with the year? Give the same information for the one game that he pitched?

[Dave Visbeck]

Anyone? These guys are still on deck -



*Who am I? #23.



*Another Who am I? #24.

*Who am I? #25 and #26.
#25 - Also, what had I accomplished?
And #26 - Who was the first batter I faced and struck out?

*Who am I? #27.

*Who am I? #28.
#28 - Also, what was the Thanksgiving date in November that I was born ... along with the year? Give the same information for the one game that I pitched in.

[Dave Visbeck]

Who am I? #29 and #30

I'm the shortest guy to ever wear a Highlanders or Yankee uniform. I fielded Jeter's position with 5.50 chances coming my way per game and helped in turning double plays in half those contests I played in. I fielded better than the leader of the league by .013 the only season I played. My family new me as Ed ... but I was called a different name in the Big's that could kind of describe me.

I played along with another guy #30 on the team that towered over me by a foot with a first name of James. He too was called by a different name that referenced his size.

Who am I? How tall was I? Who is the teammate I'm mentioning and what about his height?

[Dave Visbeck]

Who am I? #23

I had a lowly career batting average of .210 with 5 different teams. I played in the American League for 11 seasons. In my best year at the plate I batted .321 with 3 triples in 41 games ... for a team that ended the year as a World Championship team. I slumped off getting only one hit in the four games I played in the World Series ... but that hit was a triple that drove in 2 runs. I was off also when it came to my fielding in that series, cause' I made one error and fielded only .857.

Talking about fielding though, only two years earlier I led the league at my position when I was fielding at .975. I also led a league 3 times in assists from my position. I almost forgot about another stat! I led the league twice in HBP - once with 10!

Who am I?

This one is deceptive. The guy is a pitcher that hit 18 home runs in his career ... while giving up 138 home runs.

[Dave Visbeck]

Who am I? #28

I am the FIRST major league baseball player ever born on Thanksgiving Day. I was born in Pennsylvania and played for a team in New York. My first game turned out to be my last. I was a starting pitcher that made one start about in the middle of July. We got pounded by 16 runs, and I took the loss.

I wasn't in the game in the end, but was in long enough to face 23 batters, giving up 13 runs ... but only 9 were earned and I gave up 9 hits, walked 2 batters and struck out no one. My ERA for my career ended being a lofty 36.00. I came to bat once and grounded out.

They let me play in center field after they relieved me of my pitching duties for the day. I was still upset over my pitching performance I guess because I made an error out there in two fielding chances. I got to bat once and grounded out. Game over for me after three innings of play, and end of career at the ripe old age of 20. I was so bad that no one can evens remember from which side I batted or which side I pitched from. I was on the train back home the next day. I guess I turned out to be a ... ... in baseball after all.











Who am I? Also, what was the Thanksgiving date in November that I was born ... along with the year? Give the same information for the one game that he pitched?

This one has a twist. The year he was born ... Thanksgiving was on November 30th!

[26xwc]

Answer to #23

Denton True "Cy" Young

[Dave Visbeck]

Answer to #23

Denton True "Cy" Young

You hit it out of the park ... ... 26xwc!

Who am I? #23

I had a lowly career batting average of .210 with 5 different teams. I played in the American League for 11 seasons. In my best year at the plate I batted .321 with 3 triples in 41 games ... for a team that ended the year as a World Championship team. I slumped off getting only one hit in the four games I played in the World Series ... but that hit was a triple that drove in 2 runs. I was off also when it came to my fielding in that series, cause' I made one error and fielded only .857.

Talking about fielding though, only two years earlier I led the league at my position when I was fielding at .975. I also led a league 3 times in assists from my position. I almost forgot about another stat! I led the league twice in HBP - once with 10!

Who am I?

Other #23 clues

I led the league twice in innings played at my position. The only other position I ever played was first base a few times, actually in 5 games total. Even though I'm 6' 2", I wasn't very good at that position because I only fielded .920. I even tried my hand at managing and umpiring in Boston and Ohio.

This one is deceptive. The guy is a pitcher that hit 18 home runs in his career ... while giving up 138 home runs.

Sorry I took so long to get back to this.

[Dave Visbeck]

Who am I? #29 and #30

I'm the shortest guy to ever wear a Highlanders or Yankee uniform. I fielded Jeter's position with 5.50 chances coming my way per game and helped in turning double plays in half those contests I played in. I fielded better than the leader of the league by .013 the only season I played. My family new me as Ed ... but I was called a different name in the Big's that could kind of describe me.

I played along with another guy #30 on the team that towered over me by a foot with a first name of James. He too was called by a different name that referenced his size.

Who am I? How tall was I? Who is the teammate I'm mentioning and what about his height?

Our team finished 25.5 games out of first place at .500 ... just a game and a half behind the Red Sox. The Philadelphia Athletics became World Champions this season.

[Jenn6812]

Who am I? #29 and #30

I'm the shortest guy to ever wear a Highlanders or Yankee uniform. I fielded Jeter's position with 5.50 chances coming my way per game and helped in turning double plays in half those contests I played in. I fielded better than the leader of the league by .013 the only season I played. My family new me as Ed ... but I was called a different name in the Big's that could kind of describe me.

I played along with another guy #30 on the team that towered over me by a foot with a first name of James. He too was called by a different name that referenced his size.

Who am I? How tall was I? Who is the teammate I'm mentioning and what about his height?

Even I figured this one out with your clues here plus the next one you gave. I had time to look through your collection of baseball books also to figure it out..

Since you added the Highlander's in your clue, I started with them first. I found them! The shortest player one stood right out. That one was a player called "Stubby" Manger, who turned out to be 5 foot 3.

The bigger player that had a name that would give me the clue has to be the Highlander pitcher called "Hippo" Vaughn then.

One question. How do you know the shortest Highlander or Yankee player is 5 foot 3?

[Dave Visbeck]

Even I figured this one out with your clues here plus the next one you gave. I had time to look through your collection of baseball books also to figure it out..

Since you added the Highlander's in your clue, I started with them first. I found them! The shortest player one stood right out. That one was a player called "Stubby" Manger, who turned out to be 5 foot 3.

The bigger player that had a name that would give me the clue has to be the Highlander pitcher called "Hippo" Vaughn then.

One question. How do you know the shortest Highlander or Yankee player is 5 foot 3?

My wife is correct. Only thing is I cannot accept the correct answers because you are married to a Red Sox fan my dear. Also. How do I know that Edmund Burke Magner, born on Feb 20th, 1888 is correct? Because you have to TRUST me is why. If I find out different I will admit to being wrong.

Edmund Burke Magner

Born February 20, 1888, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Died September 6, 1956, Chillicothe, Ohio

Buried at Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio

First Game: July 12, 1911; Final Game: September 30, 1911

Bat: Right Throw: Right Height: 5' 3" Weight: 135

[Dave Visbeck]

Who am I? #28

I am the FIRST major league baseball player ever born on Thanksgiving Day. I was born in Pennsylvania and played for a team in New York. My first game turned out to be my last. I was a starting pitcher that made one start about in the middle of July. We got pounded by 16 runs, and I took the loss.

I wasn't in the game in the end, but was in long enough to face 23 batters, giving up 13 runs ... but only 9 were earned and I gave up 9 hits, walked 2 batters and struck out no one. My ERA for my career ended being a lofty 36.00. I came to bat once and grounded out.

They let me play in center field after they relieved me of my pitching duties for the day. I was still upset over my pitching performance I guess because I made an error out there in two fielding chances. I got to bat once and grounded out. Game over for me after three innings of play, and end of career at the ripe old age of 20. I was so bad that no one can evens remember from which side I batted or which side I pitched from. I was on the train back home the next day. I guess I turned out to be a ... ... in baseball after all.











Who am I? Also, what was the Thanksgiving date in November that I was born ... along with the year? Give the same information for the one game that he pitched?

Answer will be back.

[Arod for President]

wow i have no idea.

[SnappySammy]

I played shortstop for the New York Yankees in 2000 and won the World Series MVP award.

My Jersey number is 2 - and I was born in Jersey!

Who am I?

Paul Revere

[Dave Visbeck]

So far ...

#1 Ray Dandridge (yankeebot)
#2 Ted Williams - July 25, 1966 (JDPNYY) Cooperstown, New York homerun #522 (yankeebot)
#3 Vinny Castilla (THEBOSS84) Most HR's by Mexican born player (THEBOSS84)
#4 Enrique Wilson (JDPNYY)
#5 Don Baylor (THEBOSS84)
#6 Harry Heitmann (yankeebot)
#7 Larry Goetz (The Sox Kid)
#8 Joe McCarthy (The Sox Kid)
#8A Randy Johnson (yankeebot)
#9 George Frazier (The Sox Kid)
#10 Gus Niahros (apolansk)
#11 Babe Ruth (apolansk, Soriambi, THEBOSS84, JDPNYY, Tifoso and Don Mattingly)
#12 Honus Wagner (apolansk)
#13 Dave Kingman (The Sox Kid)
#14 George Halas (hellonewman)
#15 George Whiteman (The Sox Kid)
#16 Hippo Vaughn (The Sox Kid)
#17 Babe Ruth (The Sox Kid)
#18 Paul Waner (26xwc)
#19 Joltin' Joe DiMaggio (apolansk)
#20 Joe McGinnity (apolansk)
#21 Jim Thorpe (26xwc)
#22 Keith McDonald (yankeebot)
#23 Cy Young (26xwc)
#24 Candy Cummings (26xwc ... again.)
#25 ? ? ?
#26 ? ? ?

#29 "Stubby" Manger (Jenn6812)
#30 "Hippo" Vaughn (Jenn6812)
#31 Wilbur "Roxey" Roach (26xwc ... againagain)
#32 ? ? ?
#33 ? ? ?
#34 ? ? ?
#35 Bert Campaneris (thecaptain)
#36 Tom Clancey Sheehan (Casey37)