"Minor Heroes" has the records of 100 interesting players, many of them fringe players, career minor leaguers and those players who have very short records in the baseball encyclopedias. Players include Redic Otey, Karl Pagel, Stan Palys, Emil Panko, Clyde Parris, Luis Penalver, Al Pinkston (4 straight bat titles after age 40), Don Plarski, Boots Poffenberger, Jim Poole (played through WWI and II), Bob Powell, Johnny Powers, Russ Rac, Dino Restelli, Rafael Rivas, Eric Rodin, Joe Roseberry, Tom Saffell, Oscar Sardinas, Angel Scull, Ron Shay, Vince Shupe, Bobby Slaybaugh, Theolic "Fireball" Smith (one-punch KO of ump), Woody Smith, Charley Stanceu, Bill Stewart, Werner Strunk, Paul Stuffel, Russ Sullivan, Tom Sunkel, Joe Taylor, Bill Taylor, Nick Testa, Jay Van Noy, Frank Verdi, Ed Waytula, Boomer Wells, Spider Wilhelm, George Wehmeyer, Dan Baich, Randy Bass, Russ Bauers, Ted Beard, Zeke Bella, Frank Biscan, Fran Boniar (hit .400 twice), Ralph Brown, Nelson Burbrink, Chuck Coles, Chet Covington, Glenn Cox, Emilio Cueche (great spitter!), Art Cuitti, Steve Dalkowski (hardest thrower ever?), Nello Dal Pra, Jack Daniels, Ted Del Guercio, Tom Drees (3 no-hitters one season), Don Eaddy, softballer Bob Fesler of Pacific Coast League, Umberto Flammini, Mark Freeman, Barbaro Garbey, Johnny Gee, Chick Genovese, Glen Gorbous (best arm ever?), Howie Goss, Jack Graham, Don Grate, Johnny Gray, Ernie Groth, Hurricane Hazle, Stan Hollmig, Hooks Iott, Rocky Ippolito, Hank Izquierdo, Stan Jok, Chuck Koney, Bill Lajoie, Frank Leja, Jesse Levan, Dick Lines, Vicente Lopez, Don Lovell, Bob Martyn, Clint McCord, Von McDaniel (including batting), Bunny Mick, Andres Mora, Howie "Howitzer" Moss, Ed Musial (Stan's brother), Rocky Nelson, Dave Nicholson and many others. The records are not guaranteed quite complete, but I did my best.                                                                                                                                                                                                          HOME