This is a new soft-cover book with commentary and career stats on unusual ballplayers. Among those included: Hi Bithorn (stadium named for him in Puerto Rico), Roy Cullenbine, Pat Seerey, Kitty Burke (a woman who batted in a game in Cincinnati), Creepie Crespi, Zaza Harvey, Floyd Giebell, Clyde Vollmer, Carlos Paula, Rudy York, Dale Alexander (cooked in a whirlpool), Bad Feet Becker, Dixie Howell, Larry French, Frank Howard, Connie Johnson (notebook pitcher), Allen Lewis, Felix Mantilla, Hersh Martin, the immortal Mario Mendoza, Russ Meyer (a woman claimed he bit her nose in a bar), Masanori Murakami, Line Drive Nelson, Victor Starffin (Russian-born Japanese ace), Gil Torres (Castro's sports commissioner), Jimmy Wynn, Joe Charboneau, Pete Gray, Bert Shepard (one-legged pitcher), Tomas de la Cruz (pitcher won the lottery twice), an underhanded pitcher in the Pacific Coast League, Virgil Trucks (2 no-hitters in a 5-19 season), Joe Haynes, Sherry Robertson (Calvin Griffith's brother), and more. Please note: these are CAREER records, not merely major league records. There are 38 pages.  Home.