Baseball Birthdays: May twelfth

Joe Dugan played a good third base with Babe and Lou’s great Yanks.
They say he earned his nickname, though, by often "Jumping" ranks.

Yogi Berra might be the best catcher of all time.
Some say it’s his malaprops that make him so sublime.

Felipe Alou had brothers two and, later, son that played.
As player and as manager, he gets a middling grade.

Lou Whitaker excelled in eighteen-year-long Tiger run.
It’s fitting and appropriate Sweet Lou wore number one.

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