Morning-ISH N&N for December 26, 2018
Yeah, there was no N&N this morning. Completely forgot about you guys. Easy to do on the night of December 25. There was no news, anyways. Baseball execs forgot about you guys wanting news, too.
From SABR member Bob Sproule at The Grandstander on December 21, 2018:
We are pleased to pass along this update from SABR member Gary Ashwill at Seamheads.com on December 24, 2018:
From Richard Sisk at Military.com on December 25, 2018:
Seaman Lawrence Eugene "Larry" Doby's first realistic thought that they might give him a chance happened on the remote Pacific atoll of Ulithi, the Navy's staging base for the invasion of Okinawa during World War II.
From SABR member Joe Posnanski at The Athletic on December 26, 2018:
Let’s go back to the beginning, to the last week of January, 1936, when the committee in charge of the very first Baseball Hall of Fame vote was doing the official count.
From SABR member Reynaldo Cruz at Universo Béisbol on December 21, 2018:
For the third straight year, the New York Yankees were not headed to the postseason. According to Jim McCulley of New York’s Daily News, the 1946 Yankees (82-65) were “stoically situated in third place...
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2019-01-19
Join the SABR Oklahoma Chapter for SABR Day — one week early from the national SABR Day — from 1:30-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 19, 2019. We'll meet in the Gaylord College building, Room 3160, on the University of Oklahoma campus at 395 W.
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“How does it feel to be the smallest player in the majors,” a Houston reporter asked Fred Patek in 1968. “A heck of a...
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Ellis Clary played in the majors for nearly four seasons during World War II, and he had an at-bat during the St. Louis Browns’ only World Series appearance in 1944.
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Mario Miguel
Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on September 28, 1949, Mario Miguel Guerrero Abud played over eight years as a shortstop and second baseman for four different teams.
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Elmer Ward
There are hundreds of major-league players who fall into the nebulous category of having had a “cup of coffee” in the big leagues; a baseball idiom for a short time a minor-league player spends playing in the major leagues.
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Leslie George
The nucleus of a formidable Oakland Oaks team that captured the 1948 Pacific Coast League title was commonly referred to...
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“The great Jackie Robinson once said, ‘A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.’ This afternoon, as the Mariners acknowledge Tuesday’s league-wide celebration of the life of Jackie Robinson...
