Found some linkies. (should of known google would come up with something)
http://worldzone.net/sports/baseball/9positions.html
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/excerpts/records_registry11.stm
More than a couple. Bert Campanaris did it for the Kansas City As (under Charlie Finlay) in 1965. Not only did he play every position, he was injured in the 9th inning and had to leave the ball game.
Cesar Tovar did the same for the Minnesota Twins in 1968.
Good Luck newcrasher!
Just remember, It’s a Taffy pull at St. Peters
Actually it happened just recently… I get a san diego radio station and they were talkin about how one of the catchers went up and started to pitch the last few innings. He actually tore some ligaments in his arm and screwed his arm up. I haven’t done any research but they were talking about it within the last month.
btw they did it because they didn’t give a crap about losing cuz they just suck so bad right now.
I was at the game at the BoB. Grace pitched the 9th in a 19-1 Dodger blowout last Sept 1st. David Ross hit the HR.
Cookie played all 8, at different times. IMO however he never pitched, in the" Days of Wine & Rojas."
The other pitcher in the battery was Roger McDowell. An ineresting aspect of the 2 pitchers at the same time gimmick is that the fielding team is allowed to change positions of two of the same players only once per inning. So a couple of times Jesse, a lefty, was forced to pitch to a right-handed batter.
I just read a little bit of baseball history in an old trivia book, so I have to share. The question was “There are five players who have hit 400 career home runs and also pitched in a major leauge baseball game. Name them.”
My dad, a baseball triviaholic, couldn’t answer. Except Babe Ruth, of course. The list was:
Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Jimmie Foxx and Dave Kingman.
I see here on a list of career HR leaders that Canseco would now also fit the profile.
Pretty itneresting considering there’s only 34 guys with 400+ homers (according to this list)
Correct me if I’m wrong (really, please) but I believe out of all 6 Ruth was the only one of them who actually was a regular pitcher.
Scott Sheldon did that a couple of years ago…
ZipperJJ-Ruth was the only real pitcher.
Lorenzo- Having created the Mendoza line, you’d think Mario would duck publicity. Did the Cub scoreboard have an umlott (Sp?) to put over one of the I’s in Biittner?(Or did he drop it for box score purposes?)
Not only was Ruth a real pitcher, he was a good pitcher. If you look at his stats, you can see that, while nothing is certain, it’s a pretty good bet that Ruth would have made the Hall of Fame as a pitcher if he had never been converted to an everyday player. A couple other things I find interesting: Ruth started and won a complete game in 1933, many years after he’d been converted. And I bet there’s no one else on that slugger list with a complete game World Series win.
When I first read this question, this was the guy whose name I couldn’t remember. Oquendo played, what, eight positions? IIRC, he pitched more than once during his career.
OF Rocky Colavito pitched for the Yankess against his old team the Detroit Tigers in 1968 and won the game. 1968 was the year that the Tigers won the World Series and Denny McLain won 31 games. The '68 Tigers weren’t exactly a pushover.
Didn’t Jose Canseco pitch in a game and injured his arm which created a storm of controversy?
BTW, after some checking:
Conseco pitched 1 inning in 1993, gave up 2 hits, 3 BB and 3 earned runs. His career ERA is 27.00.
I remember seeing Elrod Hendricks, the Orioles’ backup catcher, pitch a time or two.
He pitched three games in his career:
Year Ag Tm Lg W L G GS CG SHO SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA *lgERA *ERA+
+--------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+------+----+----+---+----+----+-----+-----+----+
1987 23 STL NL 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 4 3 0 1 0 27.00 4.17 17
1988 24 STL NL 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4.0 4 2 0 6 1 4.50 3.49 80
1991 27 STL NL 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 2 3 0 2 1 27.00 3.73 13
+--------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+------+----+----+---+----+----+-----+-----+----+
3 Yr WL% .000 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 6.0 10 8 0 9 2 12.00 3.60 30
+--------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+------+----+----+---+----+----+-----+-----+----+
162 Game Avg 0 22 68 0 0 0 0 136.0 226 181 0 204 45 12.00 3.60 30
Babe Ruth made the transition from successful pitcher to great everyday position player. You might also want to consider Bob Lemon, who broke in with the Cleveland Indians in the early 1940s as a infielder, went into the military for WW2, and then rejoined the team in 1946 as an outfielder. When that didn’t work out he became a pitcher. As a pitcher he was so good that he went on the the baseball Hall of Fame.
He also managed the 1978 New York Yankees, but as an Indians’ fan I prefer not to think about that. 
Oh yes, quite.
It was also meant to be a little humorous.
Good call. As a childhood fan of the beloved 'Bucs, I always knew Mario Mendoza was a lousy hitter but I assumed that “The Mendoza Line” referred to a hitter with a career BA below .200, but it turns out Mendoza’s was actually above .200. Who knew?
**Did the Cub scoreboard have an umlott (Sp?) to put over one of the I’s in Biittner?(Or did he drop it for box score purposes?) **
Actually, the “banner” was on TV without Umlaut. Back in those days, “all” the Cubs games, including home games of which this was one, were on WGN TV at least in the Chicago market. Millions of Chicago suburban kids came home from school or took an afternoon break in the summer to watch the much beloved Cubbies get there brains beat out on a nearly daily basis and watched precious few, if any, games at the park.
The scoreboard at Wrigley, at least back then, was 100% manual. No electronics whatsoever, just some lucky guy hanging numbers to cover holes inside a huge box.
I’m reasonably certain that nothing in the rule book states that a manager has to announce his relief pitching possibilities prior to the game, but neither was it my intention to imply that, either.
What I do remember was that the summer of '77 saw a noticeable increase in this sort of position-player pitching behavior and that one of the announcers had made a comment that there was some understanding, at least at that time, that not just anyone could go to the mound and pitch in MLB, that each team had a few guys designated who could pitch during a laugher.
Of course, that memory could be nothing more than an unreliable flashback unsuitable for GQ. YMMV.
Good old Oquendo. He was indeed a man-of-all-positions. And I seem to remember him pitching in more than one blowout game. He’s still with the Cards, as a third-base coach. The last remnant of the great Cardinals teams of the 80s, frequent visitors to the World Series.