Here’s your pinch-hit game log.
Lance Lynn will take the ball in his Twins debut, while Jameson Taillon makes his first start of the season.
PNC Park is the top of my Ballparks To Visit list. From everything I’ve heard, it’s one of the few modern ballparks that might rival the LOL for Best in MLB honors.
More pitchers have been used in 2018 than in 1968.
Minutes ago, I finished reading The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang. Near the book's end, Kalia's grandmother dies*, and I cried my way through the chapter. It occurs to me that I was fortunate to finish the book alone on my couch and not while riding the bus.
I don't believe that a book's ability to make a person cry is any way correlated to its literary merit. However, in this case the book is quite good by any measure.
What's the last book that made you cry?
*not a spoiler, she's an old woman and we're all going to die
Tommy Bond (1856)
Hughie Jennings (1869)
Bill Yancey (1904)
Luke Appling (1907)
Al Barlick (1915)
Vedie Himsl (1917)
Bobby Avila (1924)
Billy Pierce (1927)
Gordon Jones (1930)
Dick Radatz (1937)
Al Weis (1938)
Mike Kekich (1945)
Reggie Smith (1945)
Don Sutton (1945)
Daniel Okrent (1948)
Tom Johnson (1951)
Billy Sample (1955)
Hank Steinbrenner (1957)
Pete Incaviglia (1964)
Curtis Leskanic (1968)
Denny Hocking (1970)
Jon Lieber (1970)
Shortstop Bill Yancey played in the Negro Leagues for fourteen years, later becoming a manager, coach, and scout.
Al Barlick was a National League umpire from 1940-1970.
Vedie Himsl was a longtime coach and scout, primarily in the Cubs organization. While pitching for St. John's (Minnesota) University, he struck out twenty batters in a game.
Daniel Okrent was one of the creators of the first fantasy baseball league.
Hank Steinbrenner is one of the owners of the New York Yankees, inheriting the team from his father in 2010.
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to Lucy.
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Hugo Bezdek (1884)
Jeff Heath (1915)
Vern Hoscheit (1922)
Bo Schembechler (1929)
Giulio Glorioso (1931)
Ron Perranoski (1936)
Ted Sadowski (1936)
Phil Niekro (1939)
Rusty Staub (1944)
Willie Montanez (1948)
Mike Bacsik (1952)
Mike Kinnunen (1958)
Rich Amaral (1962)
Frank Castillo (1969)
Matt Herges (1970)
Hugo Bezdek is the only man to manage a major league team and coach an NFL team. He was the manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1917-1919 and the coach of the Cleveland Rams in 1937. He is also a member of the College Football Hall of Fame.
Vern Hoscheit was a long-time minor league manager, scout, and major league coach. He was also the president of the Three-I League from 1960-61.
Better known as a college football coach, Bo Schembechler was the president of the Detroit Tigers from 1990-1992.
Giulio Glorioso won six ERA titles and four pitching triple crowns in Italy and is a member of the Italian Baseball Hall of Fame.
