HeyJaredLost in Left Field
A view of baseball history from historian, author, and SABR member Paul White.
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Forgotten Treasures: 1975 Topps Ken Griffey (opens the original)
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I’ve always felt badly for Ken Griffey.I shouldn’t, of course, because he had a wonderful baseball career and seems to be living a healthy, happy life. But I can’t get past the fact that Griffey had to play second-fiddle in his hometown of Donora, Pennsylvania, because that also happens to be Stan Musial’s hometown. And then Griffey was sort of lost in the glare of more famous teammates in Cincinnati, like Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, and Johnny Bench. Then his son came along and had a tremendous care
The Milwaukee Browns and Houston Cardinals (opens the original)
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It would be hard to overstate how much most baseball owners hated Bill Veeck.Baseball owners then, and now, tend to be stodgy, rich, white guys who don’t have very much fun. Other than “white,” none of those descriptions applied to Veeck, who didn’t have enormous personal wealth, loved having fun, and was a man of the people who would much rather watch the game from a general admission seat among the real fans than from an owner’s box high above the field.None of that appealed to the other owner
First Gloves: Jim Edmonds (opens the original)
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(Quick edit: It’s been pointed out that this edition doesn’t include a photo of a Jim Edmonds-branded glove. That’s because there isn’t one that I can find, other than game-used gloves he personally used. Sorry about that.)This one is going to be a bit tricky, because as I start to write this edition I think it’s going to go in a direction that Cardinals fans won’t like. And pissing off Cardinals fans is not fun.They’re a passionate group, and knowledgable about baseball, and those are admirable
Friday Stuff (opens the original)
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MondayBy 1963, Yogi Berra hadn’t been the Yankees’ regular catcher for four years. Elston Howard had taken over and performed brilliantly, leaving Berra to get only backup duty or try his hand in left field. He basically fought left field to a draw, not embarrassing himself but not reminding anyone of Gene Woodling or George Selkirk either.At first his bat was still good enough to warrant finding him playing time. In 1960 he had an OPS+ of 118 while picking up outfield time in 36 games, and a ye
Late Bloomers: Gus Zernial (opens the original)
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When Heinie Zimmerman of the Cubs homered off the Cardinals’ Slim Sallee on August 28, 1912, it was a pretty big deal, for two reasons. The first was that it was Zimmerman’s 14th and final homer of the season, which proved to be a total that no one else in the National League could match that year. His teammate, the defending league MVP and two-time defending homer champ, Frank “Wildfire” Schulte, tried valiantly, popping a pair of homers in the next two games to get to 12 for the year, but neit
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