baseballglove

Fred Snodgrass is my favorite goat

I remember him in retirement making the talk show rounds, and I think starring in commercials for beer. Never thought of him as a young man. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Stengel

All old guys were young once. He was a pretty good outfielder. His fame came, of course, as manager of the Yankees for 12 years where he "had the horses." People often forget or do not realize that in his 13 years as manager of the Dodgers, Boston Bees, Boston Braves, and the Mets, he didn't have the horses. With the players he had on those Yankee teams between 1949-1960, it would have been hard not to win 10 pennants.

What does the J stand for? Hmmmm.

So many white players in those days had big ears.

query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D00E2D9123BE633A... This article mentions him playing for Toledo, Lancaster and Cincinnati.

Gee, make fun of the guy cuz his ears are big? Maybe it allowed him to hear better and hold up big glasses. Maybe his wife liked having big ears to hang onto. Whatever, he pitched in the major leagues. And TedSher, ALL the players in the majors in "those days" were white.

His name was James Ray Frost (1891-?). I found him in the World War I draft as a professional baseball player living in Peebles, Ohio and playing in Dayton, Ohio. He married Mary I., and by 1942 he was a bailiff at the Montgomery County Court House when he registered for the World War II draft. He most likely died between 1950-1970, since he doesn't appear in the Social Security Death Index which starts recording deaths around 1970. Draft registrations: www.flickr.com/photos/richard_arthur_norton/3087986663/ www.flickr.com/photos/richard_arthur_norton/3089359025/