Baseball Birthdays: July first

Boots Poffenberger played in only fifty-seven games
but arguably had one of the all-time baseball names.

Frank Baumann’s ’60 ERA was league-best two-six-seven.
The southpaw never matched that, his career mark: four-eleven.

Billy Rohr was one strike from a no-no in first start.
An Elston Howard single broke the Red Sox lefty’s heart.

Nelson Cruz was not a basher back when he was clean.
But PED’s turned him into a round-tripper machine.

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