Moose Stubing--1989
While I have been orbiting around
the great game of baseball for
nearly half a century, I do not claim
to have all the answers.
As for trivia, I am just fair. I was
never much of a stat geek. Much of
my education as a youth was
gathered from reading the backs of
my baseball cards and during rainy
days that I spent with my nose stuck
in the monthly Baseball Digest du
jour.
However, I still have holes in my
swing when I take a shot at trivia.
The other day in the stands prior to
a game, I was asked a trivia
question that I took a swing at---
and missed.
Who was the only major leaguer to
go hitless as a player and winless
as a manager?
The answer: Moose Stubing.
The hulking 6'3", 220 lbs. lefty
swinger was a career .283-hitter in
the minors, averaging 20 long balls
per season. He also sported a good
eye, as he often walked as many
times as he fanned.
Yet, unfortunately when handed
five pinch-hit appearances for the
Angels in August of 1967; all
Stubing could muster was a ground
out to the pitcher and four
strikeouts. Twins hurlers Al
Worthington and Jim Perry whiffed
the first sacker; along with
Cleveland's Bob Allen and future
Cy Young winner Denny McClain.
He collected his lone big league
contact versus Boston's Lee
Stange.
With a .000 big league average
Stubing retired as a player following
the 1969 season and embarked on
a successful minor league
managerial career, which
subsequently led him to a big
league coaching job with California.
Stubing took over a struggling
Cookie Rojas-led club that had just
lost seven straight and piloted the
Angels to eight consecutive losses
to close out the 1988 season.
California went 7-22 that
September.
I have met Moose in my scouting
travels and folks, he's a good
guy--- with a bad trivia answer.
(4/18/10)
the great game of baseball for
nearly half a century, I do not claim
to have all the answers.
As for trivia, I am just fair. I was
never much of a stat geek. Much of
my education as a youth was
gathered from reading the backs of
my baseball cards and during rainy
days that I spent with my nose stuck
in the monthly Baseball Digest du
jour.
However, I still have holes in my
swing when I take a shot at trivia.
The other day in the stands prior to
a game, I was asked a trivia
question that I took a swing at---
and missed.
Who was the only major leaguer to
go hitless as a player and winless
as a manager?
The answer: Moose Stubing.
The hulking 6'3", 220 lbs. lefty
swinger was a career .283-hitter in
the minors, averaging 20 long balls
per season. He also sported a good
eye, as he often walked as many
times as he fanned.
Yet, unfortunately when handed
five pinch-hit appearances for the
Angels in August of 1967; all
Stubing could muster was a ground
out to the pitcher and four
strikeouts. Twins hurlers Al
Worthington and Jim Perry whiffed
the first sacker; along with
Cleveland's Bob Allen and future
Cy Young winner Denny McClain.
He collected his lone big league
contact versus Boston's Lee
Stange.
With a .000 big league average
Stubing retired as a player following
the 1969 season and embarked on
a successful minor league
managerial career, which
subsequently led him to a big
league coaching job with California.
Stubing took over a struggling
Cookie Rojas-led club that had just
lost seven straight and piloted the
Angels to eight consecutive losses
to close out the 1988 season.
California went 7-22 that
September.
I have met Moose in my scouting
travels and folks, he's a good
guy--- with a bad trivia answer.
(4/18/10)
