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Veterans Committee. Charles Wilber Rogan, also known as " Bullet Joe " (July 28, 1893 – March 4, 1967), was an American pitcher, outfielder, and manager for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro baseball leagues from 1920 to 1938. Renowned as a two-way player who could both hit and pitch successfully, one statistical compilation shows Rogan ...
Rod Dedeaux. Raoul Martial "Rod" Dedeaux (February 17, 1914 – January 5, 2006) was an American college baseball coach who compiled what is widely recognized as among the greatest records of any coach in the sport's amateur history. [1][2][3][4][5] Dedeaux was the head baseball coach at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los ...
George Lee "Sparky" Anderson (February 22, 1934 – November 4, 2010) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player, coach, and manager. He managed the National League 's Cincinnati Reds to the 1975 and 1976 championships, then added a third title in 1984 with the Detroit Tigers of the American League. Anderson was the first manager to win ...
A heeled bullet is a bullet that is necked down at its base to allow a projectile the full internal diameter of a gun barrel to fit in a cartridge case of the same or narrower dimension. [1][2][3] Heeled bullets mostly disappeared with the advent of smokeless powder cartridges, [4] though older rimfire designs, such as the .22 caliber ...
Eddie Robinson (baseball) William Edward Robinson (December 15, 1920 – October 4, 2021) was an American Major League Baseball first baseman, scout, coach, and front office executive of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s who, during a 13-year playing career (1942; 1946–57), was on the roster of seven of the eight American League teams ...
Jimy Williams. James Francis Williams (October 4, 1943 – January 26, 2024) was an American professional baseball infielder, coach and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1966 and 1967 and managed the Toronto Blue Jays, Boston Red Sox, and Houston Astros. Williams was born in Santa Maria, California ...
Jared Michael " Skip " Schumaker (/ ˈʃuːmɑːkər / SHOO-mah-kər; born February 3, 1980) is an American former professional baseball outfielder and second baseman, coach, and manager, most recently of the Miami Marlins from 2023 to 2024. He played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Cincinnati Reds.
Link Jarrett. Lincoln "Link" Jarrett (born January 26, 1972) is an American college baseball coach and former shortstop, who is the current head coach of the Florida State Seminoles. [1] Jarrett played college baseball at Florida State University from 1991 to 1994 for coach Mike Martin. He was the head coach at the University of North Carolina ...