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"Pop" Lloyd, the greatest shortstop in Negro league history,
\nIs in the baseball Hall of Fame, his average: three-four-three.<\/p>\n

Fred Haney played just seven years, is not well known for them.
\nHe gained his fame as Braves skipper and then Angels’ G.M.<\/p>\n

Lew Krausse came up when just eighteen, a righty for the A’s.
\nHe had one good year, fought with Finley: goodbye playing days.<\/p>\n

Tony Phillips played for eighteen years in six positions.
\nFive years he topped a hundred walks, made good strike zone decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

"Pop" Lloyd, the greatest shortstop in Negro league history, Is in the baseball Hall of Fame, his average: three-four-three. Fred Haney played just seven years, is not well known for them. He gained his fame … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":438,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=438","url_meta":{"origin":396,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: May twenty-third","author":"Rick Young","date":"May 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Dummy\" Hoy was best deaf player ever in baseball. He had two thousand hits. 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