|
Peninsula Winter League
The Peninsula Winter League was a Rookie level baseball minor league that played from 1959 to 1968 as a winter league. The Peninsula Winter League teams were Major League Baseball affiliate teams and were based in San Francisco, California. Baseball Hall of Fame members Joe Morgan and Willie Stargell played in the Peninsula Winter League. History Prior to the minor league, a league named the Peninsula Winter League played as a semi–pro league beginning in the 1940s and continuing through the 1950s. The Grace Brothers Beer Company sponsored a successful team in the early league. The Peninsula Winter League was formed for the 1959 season as a Rookie level minor league. The league president was Bill Weiss. The Peninsula Winter League teams were all based in San Francisco, California and each team took the moniker of its Major League Baseball affiliate team. The league continued minor league play through 1968. The Peninsula Winter League (PWL) was organized by a group of major l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Bertaina
Frank Louis Bertaina (April 14, 1944 – March 3, 2010) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Baltimore Orioles (1964–67, 1969), Washington Senators (1967–69), and St. Louis Cardinals (1970). Listed at tall and , Bertaina batted and threw left-handed. Bertaina made his major league debut on August 1, 1964, against the Kansas City Athletics at Municipal Stadium. He started and gave up two earned runs in seven innings pitched, but did not receive a decision in the 5–2 Orioles victory. With Baltimore and Washington in 1967 he went 7–6 with a 2.99 ERA and a career-high 86 strikeouts, while tying for ninth in the American League with four shutouts. That season, he was part of a trade on May 29, when the Orioles shipped him and rookie slugger Mike Epstein to Washington for veteran left-hander Pete Richert. In a seven-year career, Bertaina posted a 19–29 record with 3.84 ERA in 100 pitching appearances, including 66 starts, fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baseball Leagues In California
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball into the field of play, away from the other team's players, allowing its players to run the bases, having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called " runs". The objective of the defensive team (referred to as the fielding team) is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to prevent runners' advance around the bases. A run is scored when a runner legally advances around the bases in order and touches home plate (the place where the player started as a batter). The principal objective of the batting team is to have a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Minor Baseball Leagues In The United States
{{Disambiguation ...
Defunct (no longer in use or active) may refer to: * ''Defunct'' (video game), 2014 * Zombie process or defunct process, in Unix-like operating systems See also * * :Former entities * End-of-life product * Obsolescence Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service, or practice is no longer maintained or required even though it may still be in good working order. It usually happens when something that is more efficient or less risky r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Zupo
Frank Joseph Zupo (August 29, 1939 – March 25, 2005), nicknamed "Noodles", was an American professional baseball baseball player, player. A catcher, he appeared in 16 games played, games over parts of three seasons in Major League Baseball for the Baltimore Orioles in 1957–58 and 1961. Biography Born in San Francisco, Zupo batted left-handed, threw right-handed, stood tall and weighed . He signed with the Orioles for a $50,000 bonus after graduating from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, a private Roman Catholic high school in his native city. In , Zupo entered the American League as a 17-year-old "bonus baby" without having played in the minor league baseball, minor leagues; the bonus rule of the day mandated that MLB teams keep bonus players on their big-league rosters for two full years. That season, together with George Zuverink, Zupo twice formed the only "Z" battery (baseball), battery in Major League history, the first time coming on July 1, 1957, when Zupo made his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Stone (baseball)
Harry Ronald Stone (born September 9, 1942) is an American retired professional baseball baseball player, player. The outfielder played all or part of five seasons in Major League Baseball between and for the Kansas City Athletics and Philadelphia Phillies. He threw and batted left-handed, stood tall and weighed . A native of Corning, California, Stone attended San Joaquin Delta College and California State University, Sacramento. He played 11 seasons (1963–73) in pro baseball after signing with the Baltimore Orioles. Selected by the Athletics in the 1965 Rule 5 Draft, Stone spent the first three months of on the Athletics' roster, appearing in 26 games (only seven of them in the field), and collecting six hit (baseball), hits in 22 at bats. Then he was returned to the Baltimore organization, where he toiled for 2 more seasons in the minor league baseball, minor leagues. The Orioles traded him to the Phillies for Clay Dalrymple on January 21, 1969. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Parent (baseball)
Mark Alan Parent (born September 16, 1961) is a former Major League Baseball catcher who played from 1986 to 1998 and was the bench coach for the Chicago White Sox from 2012 to 2015. Minor league career After graduating from Anderson Union High School in Anderson, California, he was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 4th round (92nd overall) of the 1979 MLB Draft and played in the minor leagues, starting with the Northwest League's Walla Walla Padres, for eight years before being sent to the Padres. Major league career On September 15, 1996, Parent's home run off of Detroit Tigers pitcher Todd Van Poppel was the Orioles' 241st of the year, surpassing the record of 240, set by the 1961 New York Yankees. Parent would make his first and only playoff appearance with the Orioles in 1996, who made it all the way to the American League Championship Series. Parent's best offensive season would come in 1995 when he played for the Pittsburgh Pirates before being traded back to the Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Lucchesi
Frank Joseph Lucchesi ( ; April 24, 1927 – June 8, 2019) was an American professional baseball player, manager, and coach. He was the manager of three Major League Baseball (MLB) teams: the Philadelphia Phillies (–); Texas Rangers (–); and Chicago Cubs (, on an interim basis). Overall, Lucchesi posted a career win–loss record of 316–399 (.442). Minor league career A native of San Francisco, Lucchesi had a long career as an outfielder and manager in minor league baseball. As a player (1945–1957), he toiled largely in the mid- and lower minors, in the Class B Western International League and Class C California League. He batted .276 in 1,149 games with 56 home runs. Lucchesi batted and threw right-handed, stood tall and weighed . His managerial career began in 1951 in the Class D Far West League as a player-manager. After a brief, early-1950s stint in the St. Louis Browns' organization, Lucchesi joined the Phillies' farm system in 1956. He logged 14 seasons as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darrell Johnson
Darrell Dean Johnson (August 25, 1928 – May 3, 2004) was an American Major League Baseball catcher, coach, manager and scout. As a manager, he led the 1975 Boston Red Sox to the American League pennant, and was named "Manager of the Year" by both ''The Sporting News'' and the Associated Press. Playing career Johnson was born in Horace, Nebraska, and graduated from Harvard, Nebraska, High School in 1944. He was signed by the St. Louis Browns as an amateur free agent in 1949 and made his Major League debut with the Browns on April 20, 1952. A reserve catcher during his six-year Major League career (; –; –), Johnson also played for the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds and Baltimore Orioles, who released him on June 12, 1962, ending his playing career. He was listed as tall and and threw and batted right-handed. In 134 MLB games played, he batted .234 lifetime, with his 75 hits including six doubles, one tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Fregosi
James Louis Fregosi (April 4, 1942 – February 14, 2014) was an American professional baseball shortstop and manager, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from to , primarily for the Los Angeles / California Angels. He also played for the New York Mets, Texas Rangers, and Pittsburgh Pirates. Having been the Angels’ most productive and popular player for that franchise's first eleven years of play, Fregosi quickly became its first star. He led the American League (AL) in defensive double plays twice, winning the Gold Glove Award, and, upon leaving the team, ranked ninth in AL history, with 818 double plays. Fregosi holds the franchise record with 70 career triples; several of his other team records, including career games (1,429), hits (1,408), doubles (219), runs (691), and runs batted in (546), were broken by Brian Downing over the course of the through seasons. Fregosi returned to the team as manager, guiding it to its first-ever postseason appearance in , an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Fazio
Ernest Joseph Fazio (January 25, 1942 – December 1, 2017) was an American professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Colt .45s (1962–63) and Kansas City Athletics (1966). Fazio attended Santa Clara University, threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed . Fazio signed with the Colt .45s and split his first professional season, , between Houston's first-ever National League team and its Triple-A affiliate, the Oklahoma City 89ers. In , he was able to play in 102 games for Houston by filling in at second base, third base and shortstop. He hit both of his major league home runs in that year, off left-handed, lefthanders Denny Lemaster and Baseball Hall of Fame, Hall of Famer Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves. After the season, he was the "player to be named later" in an earlier trade that sent Houston pitcher Jesse Hickman to the Athletics for slugger Jim Gentile. Despite his small stature, Fazio had shown power ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Candiotti
Thomas Caesar Candiotti (born August 31, 1957) is an American former knuckleball pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Milwaukee Brewers, Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland Athletics and Los Angeles Dodgers. As of the 2005 season, Candiotti is a television and radio analyst for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Early life Candiotti is a graduate of Queen of All Saints Catholic School in Concord, California, Concord High School, and an alumnus of Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga, California. Candiotti pitched for the Saint Mary's baseball team for four years. He later said that he might not have been able to play college baseball at a larger school. Baseball career Candiotti, nicknamed "The Candy Man" or simply "Candy", was not drafted by any major-league team. He got a shot when he traveled to Victoria, British Columbia, for a tryout with the independent Victoria Mussels of the Northwest League in 1979. Candiotti won five games that year for a Victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
