George Wright (1847)
Ducky Holmes (1869)
Bill Doak (1891)
Lyn Lary (1906)
Bob Muncrief (1916)
Pete Runnels (1928)
Harry Dunlop (1933)
Bill White (1934)
Fredi Gonzalez (1964)
Kevin Tolar (1971)
Jermaine Dye (1974)
Magglio Ordonez (1974)
Lyle Overbay (1977)
Ducky Holmes (1869)
Bill Doak (1891)
Lyn Lary (1906)
Bob Muncrief (1916)
Pete Runnels (1928)
Harry Dunlop (1933)
Bill White (1934)
Fredi Gonzalez (1964)
Kevin Tolar (1971)
Jermaine Dye (1974)
Magglio Ordonez (1974)
Lyle Overbay (1977)
Harry Dunlop caught in the minors for fourteen years and was a
coach for seventeen years. He caught the minor league no-hitter in
which Ron Necciai struck out twenty-seven batters and the back-to-back minor
league no-hitters of Bill Bell.
Fredi Gonzalez managed the Florida Marlins from 2007-2010 and
managed the Atlanta Braves from 2011-2016.
Left-hander Kevin Anthony
Tolar did not play for the Twins, but was in spring training with them in
2004. Born and raised in Panama City, Florida, he was drafted by the
White Sox in the ninth round in 1989. He definitely gets points for
persistence, because it would take him eleven years to reach the majors.
He was in rookie ball in 1989 and in Class A from 1990-1993 for the White Sox;
they didn’t hit him very well, but he struggled due to control problems,
walking from six to eight batters per nine innings. The White Sox gave up
on him and released him in April of 1994. He was out of baseball that
year, but signed with Pittsburgh in 1995. The Pirates converted him to
relief, where he didn’t exactly get pinpoint control, but he did improve.
He split 1995 between Class A and AA with the Pirates, was in AA for Cleveland
in 1996, mostly in AA with the Mets in 1997, with AA for Pittsburgh and AAA in
Cincinnati in 1998, and in AAA with Pittsburgh in 1999. He pitched well
in AAA in 2000 for Detroit and finally made his major league debut, getting a September
call-up. He again pitched well in AAA for Detroit in 2001, spending about
a month in the majors. He was back in AAA in 2002 for Pittsburgh.
He went to Boston in 2003 and started the season in the majors, but lasted only
three weeks before going back to AAA. He signed with Minnesota for 2004,
but was released at the end of spring training. He signed with the Cubs
and played in AAA with them that season. He split 2005 in AAA with
Arizona and Toronto, split 2006 between the Mexican League and the Atlantic
League, and was in the Atlantic League at the start of 2007. He signed to
play for a team in Taiwan in June of 2007, and played for Aragua in the
Venezuelan Winter League from 2006-2008. He appeared in twenty major
league games, going 0-0, 6.62. He pitched 17.2 innings, allowing 13 hits
and 16 walks. He appeared in 680 minor league games, 307 of them in
AAA. Overall, he was 70-56, 3.50 with 45 saves in the minors; in AAA, he
was 31-11, 3.73 with 22 saves. It appears that Kevin Tolar is currently an
affiliate for GeneWize, a health, beauty, and wellness company which
is a subsidiary of Genelink, Inc. and is located in his home town of
Panama City.
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