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Joe Rogan (1893)
Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons (1901)
Morrie Silver (1909)
Harry Dalton (1928)
Ted Lepcio (1929)
Masaaki Koyama (1934)
Marty Brennaman (1942)
Vida Blue (1949)
Wayne Krivsky (1954)
Carmelo Martinez (1960)
Bob Milacki (1964)
Derek Lee (1966)
Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons (1901)
Morrie Silver (1909)
Harry Dalton (1928)
Ted Lepcio (1929)
Masaaki Koyama (1934)
Marty Brennaman (1942)
Vida Blue (1949)
Wayne Krivsky (1954)
Carmelo Martinez (1960)
Bob Milacki (1964)
Derek Lee (1966)
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Joe Rogan, given name Charles Wilber Rogan, was a star in the Negro Leagues
from 1920-1938.
Morrie
Silver is credited with having saved baseball in Rochester when the St. Louis
Cardinals threatened to drop their team there. He is a member of the
International League Hall of Fame.
Harry
Dalton was the general manager of the Baltimore Orioles, California Angels, and
Milwaukee Brewers.
Masaaki
Koyama won 320 games in Japan, third on the all-time list.
Hall
of Fame broadcaster Marty Brennaman has been with the Cincinnati Reds since
1974.
Wayne
Krivsky was an assistant general manager of the Twins until 2006, when he
became the general manager of Cincinnati. He has since returned to the
Twins as an assistant to the general manager.
We
would also like to wish a happy birthday to MagUidhir’s brother.
Infielder Thaddeus Stanley “Ted” Lepcio played for the Twins in
1961. He was born in Utica, New York, attended Seton Hall, and was signed
as a free agent by Boston in 1951. He was only in the minors one year and
spent over half of that year in Class B. Still, when 1952 started, Ted
Lepcio was in Boston. He was a reserve infielder, playing mostly at
second but also some at third. Actually, that statement would pretty much
sum up his career in Boston, as he only got more than 300 at-bats in a season
once. The exception was 1954, when he made 78 starts at second base, 22
at third, and nine at short. Most of the time, he would hit around .250
with moderate power and draw a decent number of walks: not good enough to
be a starter, but someone who’d help as an extra player. He had a bad
year in 1958, hitting only .199 in 136 at-bats, and was traded
to Detroit just after the 1959 season started. He bounced back
there, hitting .280 as a reserve infielder, but it was his last good
season. Lepcio moved on to Philadelphia for 1960, was sold to the White
Sox before the 1961 season, was released in late May, and signed with Minnesota
in June. He played third and second for the Twins, hitting .170/.230/.402
in 112 at-bats. He signed with the Mets for 1962 but was released in
April, and when you weren’t good enough to play for the 1962 Mets, it meant
your career was over. After leaving baseball, Ted Lepcio worked for
Honeywell and then became the vice president of St. Johnsbury Trucking
Company. He often chaired Red Sox-related charity events. At
last report, he was living in Dedham, Massachusetts and working part-time as a
transportation consultant for Stonepath, a global logistics company.
Outfielder
Derek Gerald Lee had 33 at-bats for the Twins in 1993. He was born in
Chicago, attended the University of South Florida, and was drafted by the White
Sox in the forty-second round in 1988. He had some solid seasons in
the minors, hitting .341 in Class A Utica in 1988 and .305 with 11 homers in a
1991 season split between AA and AAA. Chicago waived him after the 1992
season, however, and Minnesota claimed him. He had a solid season in
Portland, hitting .315 with 10 homers. He came up to the Twins for about
a month beginning in late June and was used as a reserve outfielder, mostly in
left. He played in fifteen games and hit .152/.176/.182. The Twins
traded him to Montreal that off-season for Joe Norris. He stayed in AAA
for a long time but moved around a lot. He was in the Expos’ organization
in 1994, the Mets in 1995, Texas and Oakland in 1996, San Diego in 1997, and
Baltimore in 1998. He played in Mexico in 1999 and played in independent
ball in 2000 before his playing career came to an end. His career AAA line,
in almost 3,000 at-bats, is .289/.377/.471. Not that he’d have been
a superstar, but it seems like he might have helped someone if he’d been given
a chance. He was a scout for the Texas Rangers for several years, but was
not retained for 2014. No information about what Derek Lee has been doing
since then was readily available.
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