A funny hey bill from Billl James online.

I have another question about By Saam's play-by-play.  In 1975 Sports Illustrated wrote that it was Saam's last year as a broadcaster.  They recalled a story about Saam calling a play where an outfielder chases a deep fly:  "He's at the wall … His head hits the wall … It bounces off …  He throws it back to the infield  …"  Any truth to this?  Did you ever hear about it?

Asked by: LesLein

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Answered: 2/27/2020

 That was actually Jerry Coleman, San Diego.   The quote is inexact, but Coleman said something like "He hits his head against the wall, and. ..It comes OFF the wall, and it's rolling back toward the infield.  Oh, my; this is a terrible thing for the Padres."  

two way players

Note: Includes players who played pitcher and batter regularly at  points in career.


https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=jones-023jam     recent
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=hollin001alb
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/crissdo01.shtml
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=torres001don
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=tada--000fuk
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=ryba--001dom at same time
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=thomps006don
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/o'brijo03.shtml    pretty much at same time
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=paepke001jac
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=macon-001max  interesting
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=white-001guy
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=conkle002tro
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/maulal01.shtml

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/callani01.shtml at same time

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=pascua002car

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=ortiz-003rob

https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/stats/p-wisnicon001 in aagpl- vg at both

https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/stats/p-wishamar001 in aagpl- g p-vg h

https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/stats/p-wolfele001 in aagpl- g at both

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=pettit001geo just died

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=moore-002d-

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bentlja01.shtml vg at both-especially in MILB

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wheatwo01.shtml In MLB in WW II

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=wheato001elw same guy

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=heitma001har

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=bridge001mar played 1st in 1st pro year

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=anthon001ome caught in last pro year

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/deanch01.shtml at MLB level

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=walsh-000jar current

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/q/queenme02.shtml at mlb level

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/ohtansh01.shtml current, mlb,vg at both

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ruthba01.shtml you know

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/murphda04.shtml at mlb level

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/smithwi02.shtml at mlb level

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=batema002h--  same time

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/smithbo02.shtml  mlb

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=tomlin001edw at same time

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=dyer--001edw mlb p/ph, milb p and of

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=obrien001edw some at MLB

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=barrio001jon 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=dubuc-001jea

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=marion002joh

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=tyler-001geo

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=mcconn001geo

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=hoag--001myr

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lefebbi01.shtml at mlb level

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=eaton-001zeb

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=thielm001joh

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=macon-001max at mlb level

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=farrel001maj

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=acosta001jul

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=browne001ear

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=schink001ado

Frank Shone -won pitching triple crown in first full season on mound

Jay Ragni in PCL

Clyde Williams great at both

Stan Karpinski one year won 29 games and hit .296

Bill Brenner, good at both, WINT/PCL

Ray McNulty, WINT

Bill Herring 188-100 w-l, in 1938 won 18 games, hit .332, and hit 9 homers

Ted Wingfield ss-p in SOUA at same time. In 1927 struck out 1 batter in 75 innings in MLB

Al Libke

Cot Deal

Eddie Locke great at both in mid-minors

Harry Heitmann vg at both in high minors

Gail Thomas went from D to AAA when he converted to pitcher

George Cusack vg at both - 1920s FLOR

Halley Wilson
Pactwa, Joe at same time in mid-high 1970s minors. Walked an incredible amount. 

Bob Chesnes very good at both. In 1946 in the PION he was 18-6/278/1.52 with a .349 batting average in 232 at-bats. 

200 game winners

223 https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=markle001cli
220 https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=donald001edw
247 https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=northr001geo

MILB resource

http://minorleagueresearcher.blogspot.com/

Newspaper resources

https://sabr.org/how-to/online-newspapers

Sporting Life source.

https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll17/search

read later

https://sabr.org/cmsFiles/Files/Minors1996-01.pdf

Western Canada Baseball

http://www.attheplate.com/wcbl/decade30s.html

David Esknanazi collection

http://chapters.sabr.org/nwsabr/photos

Arkansas baseball encyclopedia

http://arkbaseball.com/tiki-index.php?page=Clyde+Spearman

puerto rican winter league (preview)

https://books.google.com/books?id=ce8wlREHG_0C&q=1#v=snippet&q=1&f=false

Vintage Baseball Card Checklist

http://www.mikewheatcards.com/Book/eChecklist.pdf

Rob Fitts japanese baseball cards

https://www.ebay.com/str/robsjapanesecards?_sop=15&LH_BIN=1&rt=nc

1967 Kabaya Leaf

https://www.psacard.com/articles/articleview/9493/collecting-1967-kabaya-leaf-set-american-japanese-baseball-card-issue

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/torgeea01.shtml

In 1949 and 1950, Earl Torgeson finished 27th in the MVP voting both years. In 1949, he hit .260 in 25 games, while in 1950 he hit .290 with 23 homers and 119 walks.

minor league baseball cards

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-05-14-8902010447-story.html

mexican league baseball cards

https://clydes-stalecards.blogspot.com/2011/12/mexican-baseball-cards-and-stickers.html

Worst all-star selection ever

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcculcl01.shtml

Clyde McCullough 1948 hit .209 for season-.180 in 1st half

except for maybe 1987 Jay Howell