Happy Valentine’s Day

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I hope you really enjoy this totally made-up holiday.

Jim Hearty

Chocolate Calderon

Domanic Roses

Slim Love

Ellis Valentine

and if things go well:

Ed Hug

Bill Kissinger

Joe Stripp (note his full name—amazing!!)

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John Autin

12 years ago

Slim Love was born in Love, Mississippi.

My late grandfather was born on Valentine’s Day, and Valentine was his middle name.

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John Autin

12 years ago

Who had the most games by a player born on Valentine’s Day?

Candy LaChance, of course.

(But he never was a teammate of Cupid Childs.)

12 years ago

Wikipedia has it that Joe Valentine Stripp (fantastic name) was the last player to be on the receiving end of a spitball, having faced Burleigh Grimes’ final delivery. Here’s the game: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BRO/BRO193409200.shtml

Blooming heck, five hall of famers in that Pittsburgh team!

topper009

12 years ago

Reply to RJ

I see 6 HOFers in that game for Pit

Waner, L
Waner, P
Vaughan
Traynor
Hoyt
Grimes

Although only Vaughan and Big Poison are really HOF worthy

12 years ago

Reply to topper009

Ah, you are correct. Worthy or not that’s a pretty incredible number. Is there a particular reason so many of this group are in there, especially if, as you say, the majority are not hall worthy?

topper009

12 years ago

Reply to RJ

I think Traynor got in because at that time there were only 2 3Bs in the HOF, Collins and Baker, plus he finished with a .320 career average. “Patience” Hoyt was a famous Yankee from almost the entire 20s, he gets credit for being teammates of Ruth and Gehrig. Grimes was the last spitballer which made him famous, and he was from Wisconsin. Lloyd Waner, I have no idea, I suspect his brother helped. His first 3 seasons were his best and then he gradually declined, so maybe they stuck in people’s mind and represented his entire career. His first… Read more »

Adam Darowski

12 years ago

Geez, I wonder how that last guy was conceived…

Dr. Doom

12 years ago

No Richie Sexson, huh?

topper009

12 years ago

And if things go really well tonight:

Home Run Baker

Library Dave

12 years ago

I think it’s also worth noting that Joe Stripp didn’t strike out very often.

wlcmlc

12 years ago

Is Joe Stripp’s OPS+ correct?

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Andy

12 years ago

Reply to wlcmlc

It sure doesn’t seem correct–his raw OPS was around league average for the time. I will investigate.

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Andy

12 years ago

Reply to wlcmlc

OK, there is a site-wide bug right now in OPS+ that will be fixed after the daily update.

Tmckelv

12 years ago

Reply to Andy

Too bad, I was rather enjoying Ellis Valentine’s 208 lifetime OPS+.

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John Autin

12 years ago

Reply to Andy

As of this moment, it seems that the OPS+ numbers have been fixed for active players, but not for retired ones. (Last night, all the numbers were wrong.)

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John Autin

12 years ago

We mustn’t forget … Cuddles Marshall.

Tmckelv

12 years ago

Reply to John Autin

…or Daryl Hallmark

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=hallma001dar

Lawrence Azrin

12 years ago

Any reason why Bobby Valentine is not also on this list?

dannyc

12 years ago

Reply to Lawrence Azrin

Bobby Wine, Matt Holliday(Holiday), Jim Ray Hart(Heart), Red
Schoendienst, Candy Maldonado, and everyones favorite HOFamer
Lou Brock. Brock? See http://www.candyfavorites.com/candy/brachs-candy?gclid=CMjsuviVn64CFQOEhwod0S5O2g