Thursday Name That Cub

by Al Yellon on Jan 15, 2009 8:10 AM CST in Name That Cub

This one should actually not be that difficult. Courtesy of BCB reader flachimesa.

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A young Dennis Farina?

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by digitalbenjamin on Jan 15, 2009 9:05 AM CST reply actions

Interesting.

But no.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Jan 15, 2009 9:11 AM CST up reply actions

clearly a guy with one hell of a uni-brow.

"When you are in a hole, stop digging." - anon.

by LAcarl519 on Jan 15, 2009 9:12 AM CST reply actions

Jim Fanning?

by StevenABQ on Jan 15, 2009 9:24 AM CST reply actions

Chris Chelios?

by Jasely on Jan 15, 2009 9:25 AM CST reply actions

Chelios isn't that old.

Almost, but not quite.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Jan 15, 2009 9:29 AM CST up reply actions

Valentinetti?

by jbertram on Jan 15, 2009 9:28 AM CST reply actions

So far, good guesses, but no.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Jan 15, 2009 9:29 AM CST reply actions

Whew

I thought LAcarl519 had it in the bag for sure.

by StevenABQ on Jan 15, 2009 9:31 AM CST up reply actions

Tom Poholsky

by Clutche on Jan 15, 2009 9:32 AM CST reply actions

Nope.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Jan 15, 2009 9:32 AM CST up reply actions

Dee Fondy?

by jbertram on Jan 15, 2009 9:32 AM CST reply actions

Nope.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Jan 15, 2009 9:37 AM CST up reply actions

Jackie Collum?

I don’t want to take up all the guesses, but I’m pretty bored over here.

by jbertram on Jan 15, 2009 9:40 AM CST reply actions

Frank Ernaga?

by Clutche on Jan 15, 2009 9:40 AM CST reply actions

Bobby Del Greco?

Old Style is the nectar of life.

by Mordecai on Jan 15, 2009 9:44 AM CST reply actions

None of the above.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Jan 15, 2009 9:46 AM CST reply actions

DINGDINGDING!!!

We have a winner.

But how did you know for sure?

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"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Jan 15, 2009 10:03 AM CST up reply actions

I knew it was '57 or '58 from the hat and he looks Italian

by Clutche on Jan 15, 2009 10:12 AM CST up reply actions

Well done.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Jan 15, 2009 10:17 AM CST up reply actions

Ditto

by Clutche on Jan 15, 2009 10:32 AM CST up reply actions

Like you told me, Al, this would be easy because of the cap ('57)

"Every team will win 60 games, every team will lose 60 games, it's what the team does in the other 42 games that decides the season."

by flachimesa on Jan 15, 2009 10:18 AM CST up reply actions

I have pictures of almost all of the players listed above

"Every team will win 60 games, every team will lose 60 games, it's what the team does in the other 42 games that decides the season."

by flachimesa on Jan 15, 2009 10:21 AM CST reply actions

Ditto

by Clutche on Jan 15, 2009 10:32 AM CST up reply actions

Love that style of hat

Wonder if his other job was driving a “choo choo train”.

"Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living." ~Alvin Dark

by DamonBerryhillsMitt on Jan 15, 2009 10:54 AM CST reply actions

Anybody know why the short career?

This guy’s hitting stats make him look like another John Paciorek. Does anybody know why he had such a short career?

by cubssouvenirman on Jan 15, 2009 10:57 AM CST reply actions

He was a scrub, actually a bullpen catcher with only 17 ab

by Clutche on Jan 15, 2009 11:13 AM CST up reply actions

.412 lifetime ba in very limited service

the guy had a .467 going 7for 15 in 6 games in 1957. The next year he was 0 for 2 in 2 ab.

by cubssouvenirman on Jan 15, 2009 11:18 AM CST up reply actions

… look at his age when he had those AB — 21 and 22. Why the Cubs wouldn’t have given a kid like this a shot, I have no idea. They couldn’t have done any worse playing rookies like this than with the failed veterans they had.

The late 50s Cubs rosters are littered with kids like this who never got much of a chance to play.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Jan 15, 2009 2:28 PM CST up reply actions

Because

they were the late-50s Cubs. Phil Wrigley hired people whom he liked (yet he had no friends). You know the insanity of the Cubs from about 1947 to 1965.

by Josh Timmers on Jan 15, 2009 2:31 PM CST up reply actions