QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Steve Stone as an Oriole
"I won 15 games in 1977 with Eric Soderholm, who had a cast iron glove, playing third base, and Ralph Garr in left field, who could have played without a mitt and nobody would have known the difference."
-- Former pitcher Steve Stone, on his '77 season with the White Sox
OBSCURE FACTOID
Ted Lyons
The bullpen needn't have shown up
Here's something you won't see again. In 1942, pitcher Ted Lyons of the Chicago White Sox appeared in 20 games -- all starts, all complete games. He went 14-6 with a 2.10 ERA (which led the league) in 180 innings. He walked just 26 -- 1.3 per nine innings. Lyons was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955, finishing with 260 wins.
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