Sunday, October 08, 2006 |
Today's Birthdays
Enos Cabell LAN b. 1949, played 1985-1986. He played for the Dodgers in the last two seasons of his career, who got him for the price of a couple scrubs, Rafael Montalvo and German Rivera, spelling the ill-fated Greg Brock against lefties in those years.
People like goats; Steve Bartman was one for the Cubs, yet nobody chases Mark Prior for failing to make his outs. During the 1985 ALCS, Jerry Reuss in Game 4 (for his unbelievable seven-run, 1.2 IP meltdown) and Tommy Lasorda in Game 6 (for pitching to Jack Clark) both had games they'd like to forget, but does Cabell ever get any flack for grounding into a double play in the fourth inning of Game 5 with men in scoring position and one out? The Cards won that game 3-2, and that event, as much as any other, could have turned the game and possibly the series. He had a .077 average over the six games he appeared in, including three starts; was it just a sign of a bad bench, bad management, or just a Dodgers team that had run out of gas?
Ed Kirkpatrick CAL,LAA b. 1944, played 1962-1968. The fact that he was playing for the Angels at age 17 says more about the team's desperation than it says about his quality as a player; he spent his most productive years with Kansas City, at the time building a mini-dynasty with a series of astute-to-the-point-of-eerie trades; Kansas City Executive Vice President (the team didn't have a GM position in those days) Cedric Tallis, a former Angels executive, was behind it, and you wonder just how much better off the Angels would have been had he stayed.
Phil Lewis BRO b. 1884, played 1905-1908, d. 1959-08-08
Mike Morgan LAN b. 1959, played 1989-1991, All-Star: 1991. A more durable version of Ben Weber, perhaps; a high school phenom who didn't phenominate, yet he hung around through four decades and 12 teams, a major league record, and even pitched 4.2 innings of scoreless ball for the 2001 Diamondbacks in their World Series appearance.
Lee Rogers BRO b. 1913, played 1938, d. 1995-11-23
Olmedo Saenz LAN b. 1970, played 2004-2005. Will he return next year?
Paul Schreiber BRO b. 1902, played 1922-1923, d. 1982-01-28
Rick Stelmaszek CAL b. 1948, played 1973
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