Friday, July 28, 2006 |
Pickoff Moves
Today's Birthdays
Freddie Fitzsimmons BRO b. 1901, played 1937-1943, d. 1979-11-18
Dick Simpson CAL,LAA b. 1943, played 1962, 1964-1965. Everything's connected. Dick Simpson was the youngest player in the league at 18 when he came up in 1962, and according to some reports, the fastest; he sure couldn't hit. The Angels shipped him off to the Orioles on December 2, 1965, and seven days later, they flipped him to the Reds along with Jack Baldshun and Milt Pappas to the Orioles — for Hall of Famer Frank Robinson. (The player the Angels got back was Norm Siebern, who himself was about to fill a gaping hole where once had stood a future Hall of Famer traded far too early.) He never really hit wherever he played, and finally ended up as a first-and-only-year Seattle Pilot, in whose uniform he retired.
Bullety Stuff
- Mark Whicker reluctantly makes the case for Bill Stoneman's trade deadline inactivity.
- Doug Padilla forecasts a 100% chance of extreme curiosity as Jered Weaver goes up against Josh Beckett.
- Bartolo Colon appears doubtful for his next start. Joe Saunders has been scratched from his next AAA start and will likely get a callup.
- Ned Colletti's a buyer, not a seller at the deadline.
- Two Negro League executives, one a woman, were named special inductees to the Hall of Fame:
Alejandro Pompez, owner of the Cuban Stars (later the Cuban Giants) of the Negro National League, and Effa Manley, a barrier-breaking female executive with the Newark Eagles, were connected to lucrative "numbers" operations that peaked during the 1920s and '30s and were fixtures in black communities across the nation.
Pompez ran one based in Harlem in New York City; Manley was married to a "numbers man" from Jersey City, N.J.
- Tony Jackson wonders if east coast bias will shut out Andre Ethier from Rookie of the Year consideration
- Mike Waldner thinks the Dodgers could use a snake charmer.
- Am I the only one who thinks that the DHL Hometown Heroes idea looks awfully familiar?
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