Baseball Birthdays: May fifth

Chief Bender was a pitcher who was heckled through his days.
He won two hundred twelve games, mostly for Connie Mack’s A’s.

Bob Cerv served Yanks and chipped in an occasional home run.
He roomed with Mick and Roger during nineteen sixty-one.

Don Buddin was a shortstop who engendered fielding terrors.
In five years with the Red Sox, the dude averaged thirty errors.

Tommy Helms played fourteen years. His fielding got high grades.
He didn’t strike out much and twice was swapped in major trades.

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