Happy May 20th Birthday

[Old Sweater]

1856 - Horace Phillips, manager (d. 1896)
1860 - Walt Burnham, minor league manager (d. 1937)
1860 - Watch Burnham, manager (d. 1902)
1879 - John Murphy, infielder (d. 1949)
1879 - Jake Thielman, pitcher (d. 1928)
1884 - Paul Howard, outfielder (d. 1968)
1889 - Ted Cather, outfielder (d. 1945)
1890 - Jess Buckles, pitcher (d. 1975)
1891 - Joe Harris, infielder (d. 1959)
1893 - Walter Bernhardt, pitcher (d. 1958)
1893 - Fritz Von Kolnitz, infielder (d. 1948)
1897 - Wilcy Moore, pitcher (d. 1963)
1900 - Claral Gillenwater, pitcher (d. 1978)
1900 - George Grantham, infielder (d. 1954)
1900 - Ollie Klee, outfielder (d. 1977)
1904 - Pete Appleton, pitcher (d. 1974)
1910 - Fernando Barradas, minor league pitcher; Salon de la Fama (d. 1995)
1911 - Bert Delmas, infielder (d. 1979)
1912 - Horacio Martinez, Negro League infielder (d. 1992)
1913 - Lou Scoffic, outfielder (d. 1997)
1914 - Stan Benjamin, outfielder (d. 2009)
1916 - Joe Wood, pitcher (d. 2002)
1916 - Al Kubski, minor league infielder/manager (d. 2006)
1919 - Harry Taylor, pitcher (d. 2000)
1921 - Hal Newhouser, pitcher; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 1998)
1921 - Earl Rapp, outfielder (d. 1992)
1923 - Jose Zardon, outfielder
1924 - Herman Wedemeyer, minor league outfielder (d. 1999)
1925 - Lee Griffeth, pitcher (d. 2007)
1930 - Tom Morgan, pitcher (d. 1987)
1931 - Ken Boyer, infielder, manager; All-Star (d. 1982)
1937 - Bob Giallombardo, pitcher
1940 - Sadaharu Oh, NPB infielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
1943 - Dave McDonald, infielder
1946 - Jim Lyttle, outfielder
1946 - Bobby Murcer, outfielder; All-Star (d. 2008)
1957 - John Zisk, minor league outfielder-infielder
1958 - Hector Heredia, minor league pitcher
1959 - Gary Davenport, minor league infielder
1959 - Russ Stephans, minor league catcher
1961 - Ralph Bryant, outfielder
1963 - Glen Kuiper, minor league infielder
1963 - David Wells, pitcher; All-Star
1964 - Gordon Dillard, pitcher
1964 - Jeff Schwarz, pitcher
1965 - Wayne Housie, outfielder
1965 - Todd Stottlemyre, pitcher
1965 - Carlos Yánes, Cuban leagues pitcher
1971 - Miguel Jabalera, minor league infielder and manager
1971 - Motoi Okoshi, NPB outfielder
1972 - Byung-kyu Kang, KBO pitcher
1973 - Jason Pruitt, minor league pitcher
1974 - Jun Du, China Baseball League outfielder
1974 - Yoel Hernandez, Italian Baseball League pitcher
1974 - Brian McNichol, pitcher
1975 - Amaury Garcia, infielder
1975 - Luis Garcia, infielder
1976 - Ramon Hernandez, catcher; All-Star
1976 - Tomoya Satozaki, NPB catcher
1977 - Steve Stemle, pitcher
1978 - Wilson Valdez, infielder
1979 - Jayson Werth, outfielder; All-Star
1979 - Jae-woong Yoo, KBO outfielder
1980 - Austin Kearns, outfielder
1981 - Atsushi Fujii, NPB outfielder
1981 - Kensuke Tanaka, NPB infielder
1983 - Adam Rosales, infielder
1984 - Pedro Powell, minor league outfielder
1988 - Chase Burnette, minor league outfielder
1988 - Carlos Rivero, minor league infielder
1988 - Tony Sanchez, minor league catcher
1989 - Hayden Simpson, minor league pitcher
1991 - Sek Sitthikaew, Thai national team pitcher

http://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/birthdays.cgi?month=5&day=20

^^^ Stats of players who were born this day

[Mudge]

Clete's (and Cloyd's) brother, Ken. Both decent third basemen in different leagues -- faced off in the 1964 World Series.

[Old Sweater]

Clete's (and Cloyd's) brother, Ken. Both decent third basemen in different leagues -- faced off in the 1964 World Series.


Thats the WS where I found myself pulling for the Yankees over the Cardinals. At that point in time, I thought I liked them both equal, as my top teams.

[BobH]

1946 - Bobby Murcer, outfielder; All-Star

Left-handed Bobby was heralded as the next Mickey Mantle at the time....NOT...-BH

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1921 - Hal Newhouser, pitcher; All-Star, Hall of Famer

Prince Hal was a superb pitcher but never served a day in World War II like so many had to do. There could be a perfectly good reason for that but, for some reason, I always thought less of him because of it.-BH