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He is the second-smallest player in major league baseball history. The shortest player on record is 43-inch Eddie Gaedel , who got one plate appearance (a walk) as a 1951 publicity stunt. Five players listed at 5-3 have graced the major leagues since 1900, according to Baseball Reference, with Pompeyo Davalillo, Jess Cortazzo , Bob Emmerich ...
Freddie Joseph Patek (/ ˈ p ɑː t ɛ k /; born October 9, 1944), nicknamed "the Flea" or "the Cricket", is an American former professional baseball shortstop who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Royals and California Angels. At 5 feet 5 inches (165 cm) tall, he was the shortest MLB player of his time.
He was mentioned by name in the lyrics of Terry Cashman's homage to 1950s baseball, "Talkin' Baseball (Willie, Mickey, and the Duke)." His at-bat was the No. 1 choice on a 1999 list of "Unusual and Unforgettable Moments" in baseball history published by the Sporting News. [26] In 1994, Veeck's son Mike Veeck owned the minor league St. Paul ...
Robert Max "Sugar" Cain (October 16, 1924 – April 8, 1997) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Browns between 1949 and 1954. He batted and threw left-handed.
Francis Field Saucier (born May 28, 1926) is an American former professional baseball player, an outfielder who played two months of the 1951 baseball season for the St. Louis Browns. He is known for being replaced by the shortest player in baseball history, Eddie Gaedel , who pinch-hit for him in a stunt devised by Browns' owner Bill Veeck in ...
Boyle's family emigrated from Ireland in the 1800s and settled in Cincinnati. [2] His father James worked as a brewery truck driver and a fireman. [1]Jimmy was a second-generation ballplayer (uncommon in an era when there had only been two generations of ball players); his two uncles Jack and Eddie Boyle were catchers for the Phillies and Pirates, respectively.
In 1953, sportswriter Jocko Maxwell published an article in Baseball Digest and item in Catholic Digest describing the shortest home run in baseball history. [2] Maxwell described a baseball game where Oyler, as a shortstop for the Minneapolis Millers, was crouched in the batters' box in the bottom of the ninth inning and ducked to avoid a high pitch thrown at his head. [2]
Thirty-two individuals who played professional baseball at the major league level before 1900 lack identified given names (there are hundreds of other players of which this is true from the twentieth-century Negro leagues). All 32 played between 1872 and 1892; 18 played in the National Association, which folded in 1875. Identification of ...