Also, there was at least one base hit to the outfield while Graham was in the game, so he might have gotten the chance to field a ball in play.) Contrary to the film's assertion that Graham only played one half-inning, the Society for American Baseball Research discovered that he actually played two innings.
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(Graham's story is reported incorrectly in the movie and in other sources. Kinsella included it in his novel Shoeless Joe, which was then adapted into the hit movie Field of Dreams. His story was made famous when author W.P. He would leave baseball and enjoy a long career as a doctor in Chisholm, Minnesota. Graham was an outfielder who played two innings of one game on defense for the New York Giants in the 1905 season, neither making a putout nor getting a chance to bat.
Outfielder Moonlight Graham's cup of coffee with the 1905 New York Giants was made famous by Field of Dreams. Major League Baseball voided Gaedel's contract the next day and he never appeared in a game again. The promotional stunt ended when pitcher Bob Cain, throwing at the smallest strike zone of all time, walked Gaedel on four pitches. Louis Browns by maverick owner Bill Veeck and sent into a game as a pinch-hitter on August 19. Gaedel, who was three feet, seven inches tall, was put on the roster of the 1951 St. The real Tigers, threatened by American League president Ban Johnson with lifetime bans, came back for their next game. Of the nine replacement players, the only one to ever appear in a big-league game again was Billy Maharg, who made it back for one more game in 1916 (and later was one of the fixers behind the Black Sox Scandal). Pitcher Allan Travers went the whole game for Detroit, giving up 24 runs (a modern-day record), 14 of which were earned. Philadelphia drubbed the replacement Tigers 24–2.
Unable to field a team for their May 18, 1912, game in Philadelphia, the Tigers scrounged up nine replacement players from around the city. When Ty Cobb was suspended for fighting a fan in the stands, sixteen members of the Tigers voted to go on strike in support of Cobb. He then came back to the majors in 1952 and had a 14-year playing career, and spent the rest of his life as part of the Reds broadcast team. Nuxhall is the youngest player ever to appear in a big-league baseball game. Nuxhall appeared in one game for the 1944 Cincinnati Reds at the age of 15, during a time when the manpower requirements of World War II were making it more challenging for Major League clubs to fill out their rosters. He entered the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983.
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He later managed the Dodgers for 23 years in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, winning seven pennants and four World Series championships. Alston struck out in his only career at-bat for the 1936 St. įor many players, a cup of coffee is all they ever get in the major leagues.
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972 slugging percentage, and a 1.436 on-base plus slugging percentage in 36 at bats for the 1998 St. 426 in 47 at bats in 1941 Fred Lynn, who hit. Players listed by Bill James as having had particularly impressive September call-up performances, and who had long careers, were Stan Musial, who hit. Included on the Angels' postseason roster as a replacement for an injured player, he won five playoff games for Anaheim and helped them to a victory in the 2002 World Series, all before he won a regular-season game in the majors.Īnother famous baseball player who made his debut with a cup of coffee was Shoeless Joe Jackson, who played five games in 1908, five more in 1909, and twenty games in 1910 before finally making the bigs for good in 1911. įrancisco Rodríguez made his big-league debut by pitching 5 2⁄ 3 innings in September for the Anaheim Angels. Notable players who made their debuts in September include Baseball Hall of Fame players Mike Piazza (21 games for the Los Angeles Dodgers in its 1992 season), and Ryne Sandberg (13 games with the 1981 Philadelphia Phillies). This is, by definition, a cup of coffee, because September is the last month of the baseball season. Before the 2020 season, active major-league rosters expanded from 25 players to 40 from 2020 forward, rosters will expand only from 26 to 28. One well-known variant of the cup of coffee is the September call-up, in which major-league clubs call up additional players to the big leagues from the minors on September 1.
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