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CHARLESTON, S.C. /December 5, 2017 (AP) (STL.News) — A year ago, former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager sat in a Charleston County courtroom, hearing a judge declare a mistrial in the state murder case against him in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist. Relief washed over his wife, who through tears thanked attorneys for their work toward ensuring her husband would be at home with their family for the holidays.
This week, just across the street, Slager sits in a Federal courtroom, where a judge is considering how much time the former North Charleston patrol officer will spend in federal prison for the shooting. His wife is there, too, but this time she looks on as Slager sits, shackled and handcuffed, wearing a prison-issue striped jumpsuit, instead of the slacks and button-down shirt he wore for his state trial.
Slager, 36, who is white, pleaded guilty in federal court in May to violating Scott's civil rights by shooting Walter Scott without justification on April 4, 2015. Slager had pulled Scott over for a broken brake light, and the 50-year-old Scott ran during the stop. After deploying his stun gun, Slager fired eight bullets at Scott as he ran away, hitting him five times in the back.
Slager, swiftly fired from the department, no longer faces the state murder charge. That case was dropped as part of his federal plea deal. This week, federal prosecutors and Slager's attorneys are putting up their cases as to what his sentence should be. Unlike his state trial, it's taking place only before a judge, with no jury.
On Tuesday, more differences between the two state and federal cases became clear. The judge allowed expert witnesses to testify about disputed audio and video recordings of the shooting. Grant Fredericks, a forensic video expert, testified that his analysis showed Slager fought with Scott before their fatal encounter and the ex-officer said: "Let go of my Taser before I shoot you."
The defense team believes that evidence bolsters Slager's contention that Scott was aggressive and that the officer shot him in self-defense. A microphone on Slager's uniform also picked up Scott saying, "F–k the police" after Slager asked him to get on the ground, Fredericks testified.
Prosecutors counter that there is no way to definitively tell what is being said on the recordings, and they have used their own experts to show how Slager fired at Scott as he was running away, nowhere near the officer's stun gun.
U.S. District Judge David Norton has had the entire state case file for months, nullifying any need for attorneys to re-present much evidence and testimony. Defense attorneys and prosecutors gave opening statements, including brief overviews of the facts of the case, but didn't labor over explaining nuances in the law that would be necessary in a jury trial. At the end of testimony, they're expected to give equally succinct closing arguments.
Slager faces up to life in prison, although federal sentencing officials have recommended 10 to nearly 13 years. Slager's attorneys are asking for less than that.
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press, published on STL.News by St. Louis Media, LLC (AS)
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The Advocate General's opinion has been released in the Brockenhurst College case (C-699/15). This was a UK referral asking whether supplies of restaurant and entertainment services made by a college to paying members of the public (who were not the recipients of the college's principal supply of education) are 'closely related' to the provision of education, and therefore exempt from VAT under EU law. The supplies were made or facilitated by the catering and performing arts students (being the recipients of the college's principal supply of education) as part of their courses, and were an essential part of their education.
Brockenhurst operated a restaurant in which catering functions were undertaken by students under the supervision of their tutors. The restaurant charged for the meals at subsidised rates.The college's performing arts students aslo staged concerts and performances for paying members of the public.
The First-tier Tribunal (FTT) had ruled that the supplies of restaurant and entertainment services by the college to members of the public were exempt from VAT as supplies of 'services closely related to education' and on appeal by HRMC the Upper Tribunal upheld the decision. The Court of Appeal decided to refer questions to the CJEU for a preliminary ruling.
The AG stated that the Directive does not define the concept of supplies 'closely related' to education. But it is clear from the actual wording of the provision that it does not cover the supply of goods or services which are unrelated to 'children's or young people's education, school or university education, vocational training or retraining'. Furthermore, the supply of goods or services can be regarded as 'closely related' only where they are also considered to be ancillary to the principal supply.
The purpose and objective of the education exemption is that access to the provision of education, for the benefit of pupils, students and trainees, does not become more expensive due to VAT. Also the principle of fiscal neutrality must be taken into account in the interpretation of the exemptions in the Directive. From the perspective of the end consumer (in this case the third parties seeing the shows and eating in the restaurants), it is irrelevant whether the food is consumed in a normal restaurant or in a training restaurant, or in a normal theatre or a college theatre. In both cases, the consumer is fed/entertained and in both cases he pays money for that consumption.
The AG therefore said that closely related transactions do not include the supply of restaurant and entertainment services by an educational establishment to paying members of the public who are not recipients of the education.
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Spot On The Wall
A thorough pool education always includes a series of systems that we can employ to address various types of kick shots. Most of the systems use the diamonds to give us a method for determining a target on the first rail that will lead to a successful execution of the shot. Many of those systems come to pool from 3-cushion billiards, including the corner-5 system, which is the most widely used system in that game. In fact, anyone who has seen the 1950's Disney cartoon, Donald In Mathmagic Land, has also seen Charlie Peterson trying to teach the corner-5 system to Donald Duck. When you see Donald attempting the calculations you will get a pretty good idea of the way I looked when I first started playing tournament 3-cushion.
The corner-5 is so widely known and used that when someone refers to The Diamond System, chances are very strong that person is talking about the corner-5. Many editions of the BCA rulebook include a section toward the back with a brief rundown on the corner-5 system, introducing it as The Diamond System with a drawing that shows the three-rail, cue-ball tracks for a variety of first-rail hits, according to the system. However, the biggest problem with most presentations and drawings is the fact that pool tables don't read those books and most tables do not play on system. And when we find ourselves on a table that doesn't want to conform to the pretty pictures, the system is useless unless we have a method for adjusting it.
In the diagram we see sets of numbers going around the table to identify first-rail, third-rail and cue-ball numbers. First we determine a number for the cue ball's location based on the corner from which the player shoots, which is 5. Going away from the corner along the bottom short rail the cue-ball diamonds are numbered 6,7, and 8. Moving away from the corner on the long rail the diamond numbers are 4 1/2, 4, 31/2, 3 and so on up the rail. Then we look to the first and third rails that the cue ball will hit, where the diamonds have whole numbers starting with 0 in the far corners on both rails. After you determine the cue-ball position, you subtract from it the spot that you want to hit on the third rail to give you the spot that you need to hit on the first rail. Shooting from 5 to 3 on the first rail gives you 2 on the third rail, which, if you're using a table that plays on system, will go to the opposite corner, and pocket the striped ball in the diagram. If you shot from 61/2 to 21/4 on the first rail, the cue ball would hit 41/4 on the third rail. The cue ball's number minus the number you hit on the first rail equals the number the cue ball hits on the third rail. CB-1R=3R. Most pool tables do not play on system but are usually off by some degree, maybe a half-diamond, three-quarters of a diamond or any possible fraction, sometimes playing as much as two diamonds short or long. In those cases we must allow for the difference in our calculations. The system works very accurately but involves a committed effort and a period of struggle to learn it.
Fortunately, we have the spot-on-the-wall system to replace the math and eliminate the need for numerical adjustments to accommodate the table. To use this system place the cue ball in front of one corner and an object ball in the opposite corner as shown in the diagram. Without any regard for diamonds or numbers, find the spot on the first rail—let's say it's X—that works to go three rails and pocket the object ball with a half tip of high and a tip of running english, right-hand english for the shot in the diagram. Test it a few times to confirm the hit on the first rail and the consistency of your stroke. Now extend a line from the cue ball's corner through that spot on the first rail and connect it with something in the room eight to twelve feet beyond the table to find your "spot on the wall." It can be anything, a light switch, a chair slat, a table edge, or any stationary object you see on that line. Confirm its reliability by placing the cue ball in front of the corner again and, instead of aiming at the rail, aiming at your spot on the wall. The cue ball should go three rails again to pocket the object ball. Now you can move the cue ball around the table to try the same three-rail kick shot from various positions. Each time you move the cue ball, make a line from it to your spot on the wall and hit the first rail where that line meets it. If your spot is good and your stroke consistent, you will make the three-rail kick, as if magically, from any position within the shot's range with no need for numbers or calculations. I don't know who first came up with this idea but it's one of my favorite illustrations of sheer ingenuity. Even Donald would have learned spot on the wall in a matter of minutes.
For a visual demonstration of the spot-on-the-wall method for corner-5 shots as well as some one and two-rail kicks, watch the following video that Dr. Dave Alciatore and I made for this system.


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|We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent larger. Comparing siblings with one another, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have two extra months of schooling. The Vietnamese horoscope being gender-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning. Children born in auspicious years are more likely to have been planned, thus benefiting from a more favorable growth environment. (JEL J12, J13, O15, P23, Z13)
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Resale homes activity in markets in the Calgary region measured by the Calgary Real Estate Board (CREB*) varied widely in October.
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Further easing in October saw sales slow year to date to 1,146 units, 4.8 percent below last year's levels. There has been some recent pullback in new listings, which is preventing any significant shifts in inventory levels.
Despite gains in the months of supply (to just over five months), it did not appear to be enough to significantly push prices down in Airdrie. Year to date, the benchmark price for detached homes averaged $378,140, 0.59 percent below last year's levels.
Cochrane monthly sales remained comparable to last year's levels. However, they have continued to see year-to-date improvements over the previous year and remain strong in comparison to historical activity. Listings growth has ensured relatively stable inventory levels.
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Question: MS? Loss of balance, loss of vision, weakness of upper limbs
|Caroleja - Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:14 pm
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Age: 48
Sex: Female
Past Diagnoses: query ms? - 20 years ago
Past surgeries: Tonsils
Family history: Everyone distgustingly healthy, bar myself
Current Medications: Serc - for balance: Lioresal - for Spasms: Neurontin for Pain
Experienced loss of balance and motor control 20 years ago. Motor control came back mostly, but balance has been comprimised since. Had a bad experience with a neurologist at time - thought he was disinterested so I gave up on him and have been blessed with a great GP since.
Have experienced total loss of vision in both eyes on a few occasions since but again things sorted themselves out. Have had periods where motor control goes in one leg for very short periods and returns then to normal. Have also experienced severe leg spasms at night. Have suffered neuralgia on face and occassionally get pain in one eye when moving it. Recently have suffered some weakness in my upper limbs - something new for me. Also the loss of power in one leg has lasted lfor several minutes not seconds as before. For the last 20 years fatigue has been a constant factor in my life which is only controlled by frequent rest periods.
Does this sound like ms?
|Dr. Chan Lowe - Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:45 pm
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Hi Caroleja,
Multiple sclerosis is sometimes a difficult diagnosis to make. The diagnosis is made by having two or more neurological phenomenon separated in location and time by at least 3 months.
MRI's can be helpful in looking for the characteristic lesions in the brain and spinal cord.
Your symptoms could be caused by MS but the diagnosis also requires that the symptoms not be explained by anything else. This is where the diagnosis gets a bit tricky.
I would recommend you see a neurologist with experience in diagnosing MS to discuss your symptoms. When you are having symptoms doing an MRI of the brain/spinal cord may be helpful.
Best wishes.
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Colombia is gearing up for the second round of the presidential race to be held on 17 June, in which right-wing candidate Iván Duque will face off left-wing contender Gustavo Petro. Duque, a business-friendly candidate, is still the favorite to clinch the presidency. On the economic front, the recovery from the oil price shock of 2014–2015 is underway. The latest release shows GDP expanded 2.2% year-on-year in the first quarter, an acceleration from the previous quarter. Average growth in both retail sales and industrial production rebounded in Q1. Retail sales picked up throughout the quarter against a steady rise in consumer confidence and low levels of inflation. Exports continued growing at a strong rate in the first quarter, albeit losing some pace from the fourth quarter. Going into Q2, consumer confidence entered positive territory for the first time in over two years in April. • The economy is expected to speed up this year, with growth being buoyed in the medium-term by expansions in oil exploration activities, which should benefit from higher oil prices. That said, reliance on oil exports will leave the economy exposed to the same kinds of external shocks that triggered a slowdown in 2015–2016. Investment in the non-oil sector will therefore be essential to boosting growth. FocusEconomics panelists expect GDP to grow 2.5% in 2018, which is unchanged from last month's forecast, and 3.0% in 2019. • Inflation inched up to 3.2% in May from 3.1% in April, remaining within the Central Bank's target range of 3.0% plus or minus 1.0%. FocusEconomics panelists expect inflation to end 2018 at 3.3% and 2019 also at 3.3%. • At its latest meeting held on 27 April, Colombia's Central Bank (Banco de la República, BanRep) unanimously voted to cut the benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points from 4.50% to 4.25%. This rate is the lowest since July 2014 as the Bank continues its easing cycle in a bid to accelerate growth. On average, our panelists expect further easing this year and see the policy interest rate ending 2018 at 4.21%. They see it ending 2019 at 4.70%. • On 8 June, the Colombian peso ended the day at 2,859 per USD, marking a strengthening of 0.5% over the same day in May. Rising oil prices and a brighter economic outlook have fueled upbeat sentiment for the currency. The peso has also benefitted from carry trade and is expected to be one of the best performing emerging market currencies this year. FocusEconomics analysts forecast the peso ending 2018 at 2,915 per USD and 2019 at 2,947 per USD. POLITICS | Colombia heads to a second-round presidential run-off, with Duque expected to win Following the first round of the presidential vote held on 27 May, in which no one candidate captured more than half of the ballot, the two leading candidates from the race—Iván Duque of the right-wing Democratic Centre (Centro Democratico) and Gustavo Petro of the left-wing Colombia Humana movement (Humana Colombia)—will face off in the second round set to take place on 17 June. Duque is expected to clinch the presidency in the final vote, having sustained a lead in the first round as well as in the polls. Given his business-friendly stance, a victory for Duque would likely create a more conducive environment for a faster pace of economic expansion while also preserving macroeconomic stability. Although the two candidates agree on certain points, such as slowing the pace of trade liberalization and not signing more free trade agreements that have failed to yield the intended benefits, their overall economic plans sit in stark contrast. Duque's agenda is business friendly and includes measures to simplify the tax system for businesses and lower corporate taxes. Moreover, Duque is expected to undertake an orthodox approach to managing the economy and has signaled a reduction in public spending with a view to maintaining fiscal neutrality from higher growth. Petro, who is the first candidate from the far left to reach the second round of the presidential race in years, has meanwhile campaigned on diversifying the economy away from the oil sector and extractive industries to alternative products. Among Petro's other key policy proposals are restructuring spending, instituting a tax overhaul and taxing non-productive land, as well as focusing on public investment. He has proposed higher corporate taxes and increased taxes for high-income earners to fund additional expenditure in health and education. While the measures would help improve social conditions and reduce inequality, a looser fiscal stance would worsen the fiscal imbalances and steer the economy onto a more unsustainable debt path. Petro's unpopularity among investors would likely generate more economic uncertainty and increase volatility in financial assets. Whoever wins the election will be tasked with reversing the tide of lackluster growth that has set in since oil prices fell sharply in 2014–2015. Austerity measures introduced in the 2016 and 2017 budgets have also dented growth, with the economy expanding at the slowest pace in eight years last year. A slew of more upbeat data from the outset of the year suggests a turning point for the economy, however, with the recovery expected to pick up on the back of rising oil production amid higher oil prices, along with an upturn in demand supported by lower inflation and interest rate cuts. All in all, the race still looks set to be Duque's to lose. His victory, which is anticipated by the markets, would likely bode well for economic growth, attract more investment and help sustain macroeconomic stability. Among the key challenges for the new president will be addressing Colombia's subdued growth while consolidating fiscal imbalances, and the implementation of the peace deal with FARC. Panelists participating in the LatinFocus Consensus Forecast project that GDP will expand 2.5% in 2018, which is unchanged from last month's forecast. For 2019, panelists expect GDP will grow 3.0%. REAL SECTOR | Economic recovery picks up in the first quarter According to the latest GDP data released by the National Statistical Institute (DANE) on 22 May, the economy grew 2.2% in the first quarter, picking up from a revised 1.8% figure in the final quarter of 2017 (previously reported: +1.6% year-on-year). A pick-up in private consumption and government spending drove the upturn. Meanwhile, economic growth in seasonallyadjusted, quarter-on-quarter terms rose to 0.7% in Q1, up from 0.5% in Q4. An important note is that this data release has changed the series base from 2005 to 2015, which means that past growth figures have been revised under the new methodology. Overall, domestic demand expanded at a weaker pace in Q1, growing 1.3% year-on-year in the quarter compared to 2.1% in Q4. The downturn was due to a sharp contraction in total investment, which offset accelerations in both private consumption and government spending. Total investment fell 3.9% in the quarter after rising 0.6% in Q4. On the other hand, household consumption grew 2.5% in annual terms amid lower level of inflation, following an expansion of 1.2% in Q4. Government consumption soared 7.3% in the first quarter, up from 4.8% in the previous quarter. Fixed investment data has yet to be released. While exports contracted again in the first quarter, they did so at a softer pace. Exports fell 0.5% in Q1, following a more sizeable contraction of 3.7% in Q4. Imports also fell, with the rate of decline moderating as well. In Q1, imports dropped 1.7% after contracting 3.8% in the previous quarter. The overall contribution of the external sector to growth was positive, as imports contracted more sharply than exports. While the economic recovery is underway and is expected to strengthen on the back of higher oil prices in the coming quarters, a high fiscal deficit continues to pose risks to long-term fiscal sustainability. REAL SECTOR | Industrial production swings to contraction in March According to data released by Colombia's National Administrative Department (DANE) on 11 May, industrial output contracted 1.4% over the same month of the previous year in March, contrasting a 1.5% year-on-year expansion in February. Looking at a breakdown of the data, 26 out of the 39 industrial activities recorded a decline, while the remaining 13 registered an expansion. Among the notable drivers of the downturn were the categories of manufacture of non-metallic mineral products; manufacture of pharmaceutical products, medicinal chemicals; and manufacture of soaps and detergents, perfumes and toilet preparations. Industrial activities that showed a pick-up included the preparation of sugar and panela; preparation of beverages; and coking, oil refining, and fuel blending. Annual average growth in industrial production dropped down to minus 0.7% in March from minus 0.2% in February. Panelists surveyed for this month's LatinFocus report expect industrial production to expand 2.3% in 2018, which is up 0.1 percentage points from last month's forecast. For 2019, the panel expects industrial production to increase 2.5%. REAL SECTOR | PMI drops in May from April's 19-month high The seasonally-adjusted Davivienda manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) dropped to 51.1 in May after rising to a 19-month high of 52.1 in April. The index moved closer to the critical 50-point threshold that separates expansion from contraction in manufacturing output. Business conditions in the manufacturing sector continued to improve, with sustained growth in order books, production, employment and input purchasing, although the rate of expansion moderated in all cases due to uncertainty arising from the presidential election and weaker-than-expected sales. Output rose at the slowest pace in three months and the expansion was driven by new business from both domestic and external markets. Goods producers, however, remained optimistic about growth prospects, with sentiment climbing to a survey-record high. Backlogs of work continued to decline as firm hired additional workers, although the rate of job creation weakened in the month. While input prices moderated in May, output charges rose at the swiftest stride since last September as some firms passed on the higher burden of cost adjustment onto consumers. Sentiment among manufacturers was at the highest level in the survey history on expectations that market conditions will improve after the elections; firms cited export opportunities, new collections and business expansion plans as the main potential growth drivers. Commenting on May's PMI reading, Andrés Langebaek Rueda, Chief Economist Bolivar Group at Davivienda, stated: "…everything seems to indicate that manufacturing activity will continue to expand, that the slowdown observed in May corresponds to a temporary phenomenon and that activity will continue with a good dynamic in the coming months." OUTLOOK | Consumer sentiment enters optimistic territory for the first time in almost two-and-a-half years The Fedesarollo consumer confidence index climbed from minus 3.2 points in March to 1.5 points in April. This marked the first time since November 2015 that the indicator has crossed the zero-point threshold separating optimism from pessimism among consumers. Four out of the five main sub-components of the index registered an upturn in sentiment. Consumers' perceptions on their future personal economic situation improved, along with their views on the general economic situation in the next 12 months. Moreover, consumers' assessment on the country's economic conditions over the next year swung from negative into positive terrain. Consumers also held more favorable views on purchasing big-ticket items such as furniture and appliances. On the downside, consumers were more pessimistic about their present financial situation compared to a year ago. LatinFocus Consensus Forecast participants expect private consumption to expand 2.5% in 2018, which is unchanged from last month's forecast. For 2019, the panel expects private consumption to increase 3.0%. MONETARY SECTOR | Inflation edges up in May According to the National Department of Administrative Statistics (DANE), consumer prices increased 0.25% over the previous month in May, a softer upturn compared to the 0.46% rise in April. Three out of the nine subcomponents recorded sharper price increases from the previous month, two recorded softer price increases, one came in flat, and two registered a fall in prices. Prices for entertainment increased the most, while prices for clothing and communications declined. Inflation ticked up to 3.2% in May from 3.1% in April. Consequently, it remained within the Central Bank's target band of 3.0% plus or minus 1.0%. Core consumer prices—which exclude volatile items including fresh food and fruit—ticked up 0.27% in May, following a revised 0.22% increase in April (previously reported: 0.0%). Meanwhile, core inflation rose to 3.8% in May after dropping to a revised 3.7% in April (previously reported: 3.8%). Panelists participating in the LatinFocus Consensus Forecast expect that inflation will end 2018 at 3.3%, which is unchanged from last month's forecast. For 2019, the panel also expects inflation to end the year at 3.3%. EXTERNAL SECTOR | Export growth soars in April According to the National Department of Administrative Statistics (DANE), the annual pace of expansion in exports rocketed to 38.5% in April, up from a meagre 1.4% in March. All three main product groups recorded robust growth, rising at a double-digit rate. Exports of farming, food and beverages rebounded, while exports of fuels and products of extractive industries, and exports of manufacturing output accelerated markedly. In March—the most recent month for which data is available—imports contracted 5.3% year-on-year, which contrasted a 0.1% upturn in February. All three main import groups, covering farming, fuels and manufactured goods, registered a decline. In annual terms, the trade deficit shrunk to USD 384.0 million in March from USD 638.8 million from the same month of the previous year. March's deficit was smaller than the USD 494.2 million deficit recorded in February Panelists participating in the LatinFocus Consensus Forecast expect that exports will grow 11.1%, reaching USD 41.9 billion in 2018. Exports are seen rising 5.3% to USD 44.2 billion in 2019.
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[ADDED 4/17/2015: This was written in March 2013. I've added updates to include players who have been added to the database since then. The number of players who hit cleanup in their debuts since 1914 is now up to 82, after Kris Bryant did so today.]
A while back I was researching Don Mincher to write his obituary for SABR's 2013 Emerald Guide when I noticed he batted cleanup in his first major league game on the opening day of the American League's 1960 season (the National League had started six days earlier). It occurred to me that getting to be the alpha-dog cleanup hitter in your big league debut would be rare. It didn't occur to me until now to check just how rare it is. And it is really rare.
But I assumed that making the kind of impression it would take to bat cleanup at the very beginning of your career would be a sign of such overwhelming excellence that the player would be destined for stardom. Mincher, for instance, played in two All-Star Games and finished with 200 career home runs. I figured that would be near the low end of career performance for first-game cleanup hitters. Instead I was overwhelmed with the…well, I hate to say "mediocrity," since anyone who makes it to the major leagues is pretty damn good at baseball…but the undistinguished careers of so many of the players who were in the fourth spot in the batting order in their very first game.
Once again I employed the services of Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index to search the box scores compiled by Retrosheet volunteers for all the seasons from 1916 through 2012. The complete list of players who started and batted cleanup in their debuts appears at the end of the article. In those 97 seasons, only 76 players who were in the starting lineup in their first major league game batted cleanup, out of 2,912 non-pitchers total. That is by far the least of any spot in the batting order. As you might guess, the highest concentration of these rookies came at the bottom of the order:
|Position in Order
|*all in the American League in the DH era
Play Index shows 4,100 non-pitchers who made their major league debuts as substitutes. So that means 76 of 7,012 non-pitchers who started their careers during that period were in the starting lineup batting cleanup in their first game, or just barely 1%.
And yes, some of these players did turn out to be special, with two Hall of Famers (Kiki Cuyler, Jim Bottomley), a Most Valuable Player (Justin Morneau), a Rookie of the Year (Tim Salmon), a batting champion (Dale Alexander), a home run champion (Gus Zernial) and several All-Stars (Vic Wertz, Mincher, Max Alvis, Rusty Staub). But far more of them turned out to have forgettable major league careers. Two of them never started another game; a dozen others started fewer than seven other games. Nineteen of them — one out of four — NEVER hit a major league home run; eight others hit only one homer in their careers.
The typical player hitting cleanup in his debut did so either early in the season, when a recruit may have won the job in spring training (27 of the 76 were in April, and 23 of them in their team's first game of the season), or in September/October, when new players are being auditioned (also 27 of the 76). And typically he played for a team that wasn't very good and might see a newcomer as an upgrade; the overall winning percentage of these teams (double-counting the two teams that had two rookies bat cleanup in their debuts) was .476, although there were a number of pennant winners resting regulars in the season's final days along with some wretched cellar dwellers.
The complete list of players is at the end of the article. [ADDED 4/17/2015: Since I wrote the original post, Baseball-Reference.com has added the 1914, 1915 and 2014 seasons to its database. Kris Bryant hit cleanup in his debut today, bringing the total since 1914 to 82.] Here are a few comments, mostly about the people you've never heard of.
Dizzy Nutter: Started just 12 major league games, all in September 1919, and hit cleanup in all of his starts. Finished his major league career with no homers and a .212 batting average. Nutter had batted .299 with New Haven of the Eastern League in 1919, but with just one home run.
Red Torphy: Played just three games in his major league career, all in the final weeks of the 1920 season, batted cleanup in them all and went 3-for-15 with no homers. He had batted .290 with one homer at New Haven that year.
Frank Brazill: Brazill was just 21 when he opened the 1921 season as the A's first baseman. In his previous two-plus years of minor league experience he compiled a .359 batting average, although with just five home runs. After hitting cleanup in the A's first eight games in 1921 season he didn't hit in that spot the rest of the year, and before it was over he started in every spot in the order except first and ninth. He started just 45 games in his brief major league career, with no home runs. The A's traded Brazill to Portland of the Pacific Coast League shortly after the 1922 season began, and he played professional baseball until 1938 without ever returning to the majors. But he had some huge years in the PCL in the '20s, starred in the Southern Association in the '30s, and finished his minor league career with 2893 hits and a .331 batting average. John Spalding, in his terrific book "Pacific Coast League Stars," described Brazill as "a marginal fielder with a scatter arm and an argumentative hothead who fought with umpires."
Kenny Hogan: Okay, this is the strangest looking collection of stats I've ever seen. Hogan was a week shy of his 19th birthday — the youngest player on this list — when he batted cleanup for the Reds in the final game of the 1921 season, the second game of a doubleheader that was called after five innings and lasted just 50 minutes. The first game had gone 12 innings, so I'm guessing the second game was called early so the visiting Cubs could make their train; maybe there was weather, maybe it was getting dark. The rest of Hogan's major league career consists of one pinch-running appearance for Cleveland in 1923 and two pinch-running appearances for the Indians in 1924. (Also, the official stats appear to have erroneously credited Hogan with an at-bat in 1924.) But what's really odd is SABR shows no minor league games for him at all until 1927, when they show him playing three games for Toronto, and no substantial minor league playing time until 1929. Has some other Hogan in the records been given credit for games Kenny played? Or did he really make his major league debut at 18 with no professional experience, and then find himself in a major league uniform again two and three years later, still with no other professional experience? What's this all about? Somehow we have to find out. [ADDED 4/19/15: THANK YOU THANK YOU, Chris Rainey, who tells Hogan's story as part of the SABR Bio Project. Yes, his major league debut was his first professional game (and was called by darkness). He played semipro ball until he joined the Indians. Fascinating. Thank you Chris!)
Norm McMillan: McMillan was the opening day cleanup hitter and right fielder for the defending American League champion Yankees in 1922. He got the opportunity with both Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel under suspension for going on a barnstorming tour after the 1921 World Series in violation of what was then a major league rule. McMillan was the Yankees' cleanup hitter for the first 13 games of the season, batting .314 but with just one extra-base hit and one walk, and while he stayed on the team for the rest of the season and even got into a World Series game he made just three more starts. He was a regular with the Red Sox in 1923 and with the Cubs in 1929.
Jewel Ens: The only second baseman to bat cleanup in his major league debut, at least from 1916 on (no shortstop or catcher has ever hit fourth in his debut during that time). Ens was 32 years old when he played his first game with the Pirates. The previous year he had hit .335 with 19 homers for Syracuse, what was to that point by far his best minor league season. Ens was the Bucs' cleanup hitter for the better part of a month, but he wound up starting just 38 games in his major league career and hit only one home run. He took over as manager of the Pirates in 1929.
Mahlon Higbee: The 21-year-old Higbee made his debut in the second game of a doubleheader in a lineup that included third baseman Waddy MacPhee from Princeton University (also making his debut) and second baseman Freddie Maguire (playing his third game) along with a number of other Giants reserves. Eighteen-year-old shortstop Travis Jackson, a future Hall of Famer, also made his debut in the game off the bench. Higbee had been playing Class D ball before starting three games for the Giants in the final week of the 1922 season (all of them second games of doubleheaders) and went 4-for-10 with a homer and five RBI. That was the extent of his major league career. Another mystery, SABR doesn't show much of a minor league career for him at all. Would love to know more about this one. ADDED 9/8/15: Gary Cieradkowski has more about Higbee in this post.
Jimmy Hudgens and Speed Walker: The Cardinals had rookies debut in the cleanup spot on consecutive days in September 1923. Hudgens would start just four other games in the majors, Walker just one other. Hudgens had not played above the Class C level before joining the Cards; he went on to have some fine minor league seasons. Walker came up from Class B and spent most of the rest of his career there.
Buddy Crump: Another end-of-season mystery for John McGraw's Giants. He went 0-for-4 with a sacrifice fly in the final game of the 1924 season and committed two errors in center field in what would be his only major league appearance, making him the only man on the list who never played another game in the majors. Crump had spent the season in the Class B Virginia League; SABR's records don't show him playing anywhere in 1925 and not much after that.
Mandy Brooks: More questions here. SABR's records show Brooks beginning his career in Organized Baseball at the age of 26 at the highest level of the minors, batting .342 with Columbus of the American Association in 1924. Where was he before that? (UPDATE: The 1924 Reach Guide shows an outfielder named Brooks who played for Columbus in 1923, hitting .273 in 145 games. There's no first name so I can't say for certain it's the same guy, but I suspect it is.) Brooks must have gone north with the Cubs in '25, at least there's no minor league record showing for him that season, but he didn't play until the Cubs' 41st game — at which time he was installed in the cleanup spot, where he stayed for most of the next two months. (UPDATE: No, Brooks didn't go north with the Cubs; I've now found reference in The Sporting News to the Cubs acquiring John Brooks — his given name was Jonathan — from Columbus in May 1925 for cash and two players. The 1926 Spalding's Guide says Brooks played 28 games at Columbus in 1925, batting .331 with 14 extra-base hits in 28 games.) Brooks got off to a blazing start; SABR member Tom Ruane points out that Brooks hit nine home runs in just over three weeks soon after joining the Cubs, and ESPN.com fantasy baseball columnist Tristan H. Cockroft found that Brooks had more runs batted in (34) and total bases (85) in the first 25 games of his major league career than any other player, at least since 1916. Brooks moved down in the batting order later in the season but remained the Cubs' regular center fielder for the rest of the year and finished with a .513 slugging percentage. The following winter the Cubs acquired Hack Wilson and Riggs Stephenson, and Brooks was out of a starting job; he didn't play much or well in 1926 and returned to the minors after that.
Red Holt: Holt was 31 years old and coming off his fourth straight season of hitting better than .300 for Jersey City of the International League when he came to the A's in September 1925. He started 25 games over the rest of the season (although he never batted cleanup after his debut), hit .273 with one home run, and never played in the majors again.
Rusty Saunders: The 21-year-old hit .350 in Class D in his first year of pro ball in 1927 and joined the A's at the end of the season. He started four games and went 2-for-15 with no homers. Saunders played four more years in Class B and hit well but never played in the majors again.
Del Bissonette: Del helped Buffalo win the International League pennant in 1927, hitting .365 and leading the league in home runs and RBI, and opened the 1928 season as Brooklyn's cleanup hitter. He had four solid seasons with the Dodgers before severing his Achilles tendon in a spring training volleyball game. His interesting story is told by Will Anderson in the SABR Bio Project. (The photo at left is from Baseball Birthdays.)
Harley Boss: Just 19 years old, Boss came to the Senators from Little Rock of the Southern Association in July 1928 and made his debut in the same game that future Hall of Famer Joe Cronin played his first game as a Senator. Joe Judge was typically the first baseman and cleanup hitter for the Nats, and manager Bucky Harris just dropped Judge's replacement into the same slot in the order, which often seemed to happen in those days. But Boss started only one more game for the Senators that year, their final game of the season. He was Cleveland's regular first baseman in 1933, hitting .269 with his only major league homer, and was still playing in the minors during World War II.
George Blackerby: Hit .364 in 1927 and .368 in 1928 with Waco in the Texas League before joining the White Sox at the end of July 1928. He started 18 games over the rest of the season, batted .253 with no homers, and never played in the majors again, even though he had an even bigger year at Waco (.365, 33 homers) in 1929.
Dale Alexander: Opened the 1929 season as the Tigers' cleanup hitter after winning the International League triple crown at Toronto in 1928. He led the American League in hits in both of his first two seasons and won the batting title in 1932, but was back in the minors by 1934. In addition to his .331 career major league average, he hit .338 in the minors with more than 2000 hits there for a professional total of 2883. Bill Nowlin tells his story in the SABR Bio Project.
Smead Jolley: The White Sox made Jolley their cleanup hitter in 1930 after he had wreaked havoc on the Pacific Coast League for four years with the San Francisco Seals, including winning the triple crown in 1928 by hitting .404 with 45 homers and 188 RBI. Defensive deficiencies limited Jolley's major league career to four years, but he went back to the minors and continued to rake; in his final season, at age 39, he led the Western International League in batting average and RBI. He won six minor league batting titles and his minor league lifetime average was .366, with 3037 hits (plus another 521 in the majors). Bill Nowlin is also the author of his SABR Bio Project story.
Hank Leiber: Lieber was the Giants' opening day cleanup hitter in 1933 after hitting .362 as a first-year pro in the Class B Piedmont League in 1932. But after going 2-for-5 in his debut, Lieber didn't start another game for the Giants that season; he pinch-hit five times before being returned to the minors. He rejoined the Giants for good in June 1934 and stayed in the majors through 1942.
Joe Mowry: He hit .348 with 19 homers with Minneapolis in the American Association in 1932, and after he got off to a hot start with the Millers in 1933, he was traded to the Boston Bees on May 11 and was in the Bees' cleanup spot two days later. In three seasons in the majors he started 103 games and hit .233 with two home runs.
Joe Hutcheson: The 28-year-old Hutcheson was in his fourth season of ripping it up for Memphis in the Southern Association when the Dodgers acquired him in July 1933. In his first 20 games he hit .333 with three home runs, then he went into a 4-for-59 slump. He did hit three more home runs after that, but he was traded to St. Paul after the season and never returned to the majors.
Skinny Graham: Just 5'7″, Graham hit .331 in Class A before joining the Red Sox in September 1934. He started 13 games that month (batting cleanup in only the first two) and started two more games in a late-season trial in 1935, finishing his brief major league career with no home runs and a .246 average. [ADDED 4/19/15: Bill Nowlin tells his story on the SABR Bio Project.]
Fred Sington: Had a big year for Albany in the International League in 1934, hitting .327 with 29 home runs, then joined the Senators in September and batted cleanup in each of the last nine games of the season. He spent all or part of each of the next five seasons in the majors.
Howie Gorman: Another mystery…SABR's minor league records show Gorman playing just 25 minor league games in 1935 and none in 1936 or 1937. Yet there was Gorman in the lineup, batting fourth, for the Phillies on Aug. 7, 1937. His only other major league starts came when he hit leadoff in both ends of a doubleheader on Sept. 19 of that year, and he finished his major league career having gone 4-for-20 with no home runs. Where did he come from and why was he with the Phillies? Right now I have no clue.
LeGrant Scott: The unusually-named outfielder had a trial with the Erie minor league team in 1930 but then was "out of the game" (according to The Sporting News of Oct. 13, 1938) until June 1934, when he was almost 24. He joined the Birmingham team of the Southern Association at that time and stayed with them until he got a brief trial with Indianapolis of the American Association in 1938. The Phillies drafted him after that season, at the request of new manager Doc Prothro, who had managed against him in the Southern Association, and made him their right fielder to start 1939. Scott moved out of the cleanup spot after two games, but he remained a regular in the lineup until early August, when they returned him to Indianapolis. And that was the end of his major league career, in which he batted .280 with one home run. He remained active in the minors as a player and then as a manager through 1948. Scott's son, also named LeGrant Edward Scott, played baseball at the University of Alabama and then spent eight years in the minor leagues; I found a story about him as a successful high school football coach in Alabama.
Buster Bray: In 1940 Bray was a 27-year old playing in the Class B Three-I League, where he hit .336 for Evansville. In 1941 he made the Boston Braves roster and was their center fielder and cleanup hitter in the fourth and fifth games of the season. He played just two more games before being sent to the minors in early May, finishing his major league career with one hit, a double, in 11 at-bats. He went into the military after the 1941 season and did not play professionally again.
Frankie Kelleher: Kelleher went to high school in Crockett, Calif. (home of C&H Sugar) and attended nearby Saint Mary's College. I mention these facts only because we live near Crockett and my wife works at Saint Mary's. Kelleher left Saint Mary's before graduating to sign with the Yankees and scout Joe Devine, who according to John Spalding's "Pacific Coast League Stars" was Kelleher's third cousin. With the Yankee farm system loaded with talent, Kelleher struggled for playing time. He was the primary reserve on one of the most famous minor league teams of all time, the 1937 Newark Bears. Finally getting a chance to play regularly in Newark in 1941, he led the International League with 37 home runs and 125 RBI, then got off to another blazing start in 1942 with 23 home runs in 88 games before the Yankees traded him to Cincinnati in July. Kelleher moved right into the Reds' lineup but got off to a horrible start and never really recovered, batting just .182 with three home runs in 38 games. After an 0-for-10 start in 1943 the Reds shipped him back to the minors, never to return. But the best part of his career was still to come: he spent 10 seasons with the Pacific Coast League's Hollywood Stars (1944-54, except when he was in the service during the 1945 season), led the league in home runs twice and helped the Stars win three PCL championships. He was the team's most popular player ever, becoming the only player in Stars history to have his uniform number retired, and finished his minor league career with 358 home runs.
Jim Tyack: After hitting .309 for Little Rock in 1942 and leading the Southern Association in triples, Tyack was purchased by the A's and opened the 1943 season as their left fielder, a 32-year-old rookie. He got off to a slow start but was flirting with the ,300 mark in mid-June, then after he went through a 5-for-38 slump he was traded to Toronto in early August. Tyack remained active in the minors through 1948 but never returned to the majors, ending his career with no home runs and a .258 average. He was an outstanding athlete in his hometown of Bakersfield, Calif., and is a member of the Kern County Sports Hall of Fame. The Jim Tyack Award is given annually Kern County's outstanding male and female athlete; the first winner was future major league Johnny Callison, and another future major leaguer, Junior Kennedy, has also won the honor (he shared his with future NFL star Jeff Siemon).
Heinz Becker: Born in Germany, Becker and his family moved to Venezuela (!) when he was 7 and then to Dallas when he was 10. He finished second (to Eddie Stanky) in the 1942 American Association batting race when he hit .340 for Milwaukee, then the Cubs purchased him after the season. Becker opened the 1943 season as the Cubs' first baseman, starting the first 15 games, but with a .155 batting average and no home runs he was sent first to the bench and then in early June back to Milwaukee. Becker did return to the majors and saw action as a pinch-hitter for the Cubs in the 1945 World Series, but he hit just two home runs in 152 major league games. He continued to rip the ball in the minors, though, winning the 1947 American Association batting crown and finishing with a lifetime minor league average of .325. Paul Tenpenny has more about Becker's career here. Becker was charged with the murder of a friend in 1953 after a fight that started in a bar, but the charge was dropped. (After I wrote this, a full-fledged bio by Gregory H. Wolf was posted on the SABR Bio Project.)
Johnny Lazor: Lazor had the unenviable task of replacing Ted Williams in left field for the Boston Red Sox in 1943 after Williams entered military service. The Red Sox purchased Lazor's contract after he hit .309 for Louisville of the American Association in 1942. Lazor hit just .226 in '43 with no home runs, but he had more success with the Sox in 1945, batting .310 in 101 games. Bill Nowlin has much more about him in the SABR Bio Project.
Roland Gladu: Gladu has one of the most geographically diverse playing careers of his day, playing professionally in Canada, Mexico, Cuba and England (!). A native French speaker from Quebec, Gladu's struggles with English hampered him in the early part of his baseball career, according to his bio by Rory Costello in the SABR Bio Project. For five years Gladu was out of Organized Baseball, playing in Quebec in the Provincial League in 1935, in England in 1936 and '37 (he is a member of the British Baseball Hall of Fame), then returning to the Provincial League in 1938. In 1940 the Provincial League joined the National Association and Gladu played for the Quebec City team managed by another man on this list, Del Bissonette. Gladu served in the Canadian Army in 1943, but he was discharged after the baseball season and hooked up with the Boston Braves thanks to Bissonette, who was managing their Hartford farm club. Gladu was the Braves' opening day third baseman in 1944 (the first third baseman since at least 1916 to bat cleanup in his debut), but by the end of May he was in Hartford, finishing his brief major league career with a .242 batting average and one home run in 21 games. Gladu later played winter ball in Cuba and joined Jorge Pascual's ill-fated Mexican League before becoming a player-manager back in the Provincial League. After his playing career he spent more than a decade as a scout.
Joe Mack: Mack was reported to be 29 in October 1944 when the Boston Braves purchased him from the Columbus Redbirds, for whom he had driven in 102 runs that season. He was actually 32, and would turn 33 before opening the 1945 season as the Braves' first baseman. Mack was moved out of the cleanup spot in late May but started 66 of the Braves' first 67 games before being sent to the minors in early July. He never went back to the bigs, finishing his career with a .231 batting average and three home runs.
Ben Taylor: Bill Veeck brought Taylor to the majors from the Texas League shortly after taking over the St. Louis Browns in July 1951, and the newcomer hit a home run in his second trip to the plate. Taylor didn't make a big impression after that, starting 25 games over the rest of the season, and while he did earn brief trials with the Tigers in 1952 and the Braves in 1955, he hit just three home runs in his major league career. His nephew, Bob "Hawk" Taylor, signed with the Braves for a then-record $119,000 bonus in 1957 and went on to play parts of 11 seasons in the big leagues.
Mel Hoderlein: Hoderlein had hit no more than five home runs in any of his seven minor league seasons, yet there he was in the cleanup spot, behind Ted Williams, when he made his debut with the Red Sox in August 1951. Bill Nowlin writes that a series of infield injuries led to Hoderlein's call-up to the majors. He started just four other games that year for the Sox, including the final three games of the season. He never hit a home run in 118 major league games.
Earl Hersh: Hersh was called up to the league-leading Milwaukee Braves in September 1956 after a good season with Wichita of the American Association (.307, 27 homers). When Eddie Mathews sprained an ankle on Labor Day, Hersh moved into the lineup in left field (Bobby Thomson moving from left to Mathews' third base spot) and hit cleanup, a lefthanded bat between righthanded sluggers Hank Aaron and Joe Adcock. Hersh ripped three doubles in his first two games but never started another major league game. He got a good look to win the left field job in spring training in 1957 but Braves manager Fred Haney found his defensive work wanting. A Maryland native, Hersh was a star athlete at what was then known as West Chester State Teachers College in Pennsylvania. He scored a touchdown in the 1952 Blue-Gray college all-star football game and was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1953 before signing with the Braves. After his playing career Hersh went back to Maryland and was a successful high school coach and athletic director.
Jim Marshall: Marshall hit at least 20 home runs in seven straight seasons in the minors (1951-57), most of them in the Pacific Coast League, before he was acquired by the Orioles. He opened the 1958 season as the O's first baseman and started 44 games, but he hit just .215 and was sent to the Cubs on waivers in August. His first day with the Cubs was his best day as a major leaguer, as he hit three home runs in a doubleheader against the Phillies on August 24. Marshall stayed in the big leagues through 1962, then played three years in Japan (he later coached there as well) before turning to managing, including stints with the Cubs (1974-76) and the A's (1979). Among his claims to fame: he was the Mets' starting first baseman in their first-ever home game in 1962.
Willie Kirkland: Kirkland averaged 35 homers a year in four minor league seasons, then spent a year in military service before earning the starting right field spot for the Giants in 1958. That was the team's first year in California, so he was the San Francisco Giants' first-ever cleanup hitter and was, along with the Dodgers' Gil Hodges, one of the cleanup hitters in the first major league game on the West Coast. Two other Giants starters, Orlando Cepeda and Jim Davenport, also made their major league debut in that game. Kirkland stayed in the majors through 1966 and later played six seasons in Japan. He finished his professional career with 450 home runs between the majors, minors and Japan.
Rusty Staub: Staub had by far the longest career of any player on this list, making his major league debut eight days after his 19th birthday and playing his last game at the age of 41. A high school star in New Orleans who played on an American Legion national championship team in 1960, Staub signed a bonus contract with the new Houston Colt .45s before the team had even played a game. He spent his first year of pro ball in the Class B Carolina League, where he hit .293 with 23 home runs and earned most valuable player honors, and was ticketed to start 1963 in the Class AA Texas League, but he made such a strong impression in spring training (batting .420) that not only did he make the opening day roster, he was the Colts' starting right fielder and cleanup hitter. "Why not?" Colts manager Harry Craft said when asked about having a teenage cleanup hitter. "Right now, Rusty's our best hitter and he belongs in there." Staub was moved out of the cleanup spot in mid-May but he stayed in the lineup all season. He batted fourth 35 times that year and may hold the all-time record for most games batting cleanup as a teenager (I haven't found a way to verify that using Play Index).
Ossie Blanco: I was 12 years old in 1970 and obsessed with baseball, and I would have sworn I had heard of everyone who wore a major league uniform then, but I'm ashamed to say I had never heard of Blanco until I created this list. He got off to a blazing start in 1970, his eighth year in the minors, leading the Class AAA Pacific Coast League in batting average (.375) and ranking second in home runs when he was called up to the White Sox on May 24. He moved right into the Sox' lineup at first base but batted cleanup only in his first two games. After going 2-for-22 in June he was returned to the minors, this time to Class AA for some reason; he rejoined the Sox in August but started just 13 games for the season. He also made a brief appearance with Cleveland in 1974, finishing his major league career with no home runs and a .196 batting average.
Roger Freed: After batting .334 at Rochester in 1970, leading the International League with 130 RBI and sharing most valuable player honors, Freed finished the season with the pennant-winning Orioles and batted cleanup in his debut. His three later starts that season found him batting in the sixth spot. Freed was traded to the Phillies after the season but never really blossomed as a major leaguer, although he did see action in parts of eight seasons. He had one more huge year in the minors, batting .309 with 42 homers at Denver in 1976 and being honored as the Pacific Coast League's MVP.
Dave Schneck: Schneck spent more than a year serving in Vietnam after his first minor league season, missing two full seasons as a result of his military service, but returned in 1971 to hit 35 homers. After an incredible start at Memphis of the Class AA Texas League in 1972 (24 homers and 76 RBI in 81 games) he was summoned to the Mets. His manager at Memphis, John Antonelli (the former infielder, not the former pitcher), wanted to surprise Schneck with the news, so he packed his bag for him before telling him he was going to the majors. Alas, he forgot to pack any of Schneck's bats, so when Schneck arrived in San Diego to make his major league debut, he had to borrow a bat from teammate Teddy Martinez, who to that point in his career had hit one major league home run. Schneck matched that in the sixth inning of his debut with a two-run homer that changed a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 Mets lead that would hold up as the final score. Two days later Schneck homered again and added a single and a double, but the rest of the season did not go well and he finished with a .187 batting average and a total of three home runs. Schneck spent the 1973 season in the Class AAA International League and then joined the Mets in September, starting 12 of their last 17 games in center field, but he was not eligible for the playoffs as the Mets went to the World Series. He opened the 1974 season as the Mets' regular center fielder and got off to a torrid start, going 10-for-18 in his first four games and then hitting two home runs in a game at Montreal on April 17. But he cooled off after that and saw limited playing time after late June, and he did not return to the majors after that season. He finished his major league career with eight homers and a .199 average.
Frank "Moose" Ortenzio: Ortenzio hit 32 home runs in the Class A California League in 1971 and 26 homers at two minor league levels in 1972 to mark himself as the primary slugger in the Royals' farm system (Lou Gorman, then the team's scouting director, described him as having "Killebrew-style power"). A broken wrist suffered in a fall at home in early 1973 delayed his start to the season and led to his demotion to the Class AA Southern League, but after he recovered he hit .307 with 19 homers in 95 games there and earned a September promotion to Kansas City. Ortenzio was lifted for a pinch-hitter in his September 9 debut and didn't get back into the lineup until the final week of the season, but in his five final-week starts he went 7-for-20 with two doubles and a home run. Yet Ortenzio never returned to the major leagues; in part due to a broken ankle suffered with Omaha in 1974, his hitting fell off. But, like Roger Freed, he did go on to have one monster year for Denver, hitting .311 with 40 homers and 126 RBI in 1977 and earning MVP honors.
Tom Robson: Robson started his pro career as a 50th-round draft choice and had been sold once and released twice before signing a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers as a 26-year-old in 1972. In 1973 he earned most valuable player honors in the Class AA Eastern League, leading the loop in home runs (38) and RBI (126) and finishing one point behind future Hall of Famer Jim Rice for the batting title. (Although, at 27, Robson was quite old for the league; by comparison, Rice was 21.) The next year he earned MVP honors again, this time in the Class AAA Pacific Coast League, where he hit .322 with 41 homers and 131 RBI. That led to a September call-up to the Rangers and four starts down the stretch, all as a designated hitter, making him the first player to bat cleanup as a DH in his debut. Robson also saw some action with the Rangers at a few points in the 1975 season but started just eight games. That would end his major league career, in which he hit .208 with no home runs. He went to play in Japan in 1976 and has since had a long career as a hitting coach and written a book about hitting. His nephew is current Kansas City Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas.
Andres Mora: A native of Mexico, Mora started his professional baseball career in that country at age 16 in 1971. The Expos bought his contract in 1973 but he got off to an 0-for-21 start in the Class A Florida State League, then went on the disabled list May 8 for the rest of the season, and the Expos returned his contract. After Mora led the Mexican League in home runs and RBI as a 20-year-old in 1975, the Orioles bought his contract, and he made the 1976 opening day roster. He had three disappointing seasons with the O's, then returned to Mexico and went on to win three more home run titles there. He played through 1997, when he was 42, and at the time of his retirement his 419 Mexican League home runs was second to Hector Espino in league history. He was elected to the Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003. Much more of his story is told on the SABR Bio Project.
Pat Putnam: Putnam was named The Sporting News' Minor League Player of the Year in 1976 when he hit .361 with 24 homers and 142 RBI in the Class A Western Carolinas League. He was the first player from that low a classification to win the honor since the very first award in 1936, won by Johnny Vander Meer in the Class B Piedmont League. Bumped up to the Class AAA Pacific Coast League in 1977, Putnam hit .301 and knocked in 102 runs to earn a September promotion to the Rangers. He was never a star but finished fourth in the American League Rookie of the Year voting in 1979 (he spent most of 1978 in the minors) and twice led his team in home runs. His story is also on the SABR Bio Project.
Al Chambers: Chambers, the first player taken overall in the 1979 amateur draft, got the call to the majors in July 1983, when he was leading the Class AAA Salt Lake City team in batting average (.331), home runs and doubles. He began his major league career with two-run singles in each of the first two innings of his first game (Pat Putnam was one of the runners who scored on the first hit), and that was the highlight of his time in the big leagues. He drove in more runs in his first game than he did for the rest of the season (3, in 30 games). Chambers played his last major league game in 1985, having started 32 games in his career and finishing with a .208 batting average and two home runs.
Jim Wilson: A second-round draft choice in 1982, Wilson earned a September call-up in 1985 after leading the Class AAA International League with 26 homers and 101 RBI. He started both games of doubleheaders on back-to-back days against the Twins, got at least one hit in each game and drove in a total of four runs. But he did not play again that season, and his only future major league experience was five games for Seattle (one start) in 1989, during which he went 0-for-8. He had some good years in AAA and remained active through 1994.
Pete Incaviglia: Incaviglia's major league debut was also his first regular season game in professional baseball. The NCAA's all-time home run leader at Oklahoma State, he was the eighth player take in the June 1985 amateur draft but refused to sign with the Expos and forced a trade to the Rangers. That led to a change in baseball rules forbidding a team from trading a player until he has been under contract for one year. Incaviglia went north with the Rangers in 1986 without having played a game in the minors. He hit 30 home runs as a rookie, but that turned out to be his career high, although he hit 206 career homers in 12 seasons.
Jay Gainer: Gainer had not played above the Class AA level when he was traded to the first-year Colorado Rockies during spring training in 1993. He started the season at Class AAA Colorado Springs and got the call to the Rockies in mid-May, hitting a home run in his first at-bat. He started seven straight games, with just three singles in 24 at-bats after the home run, then was demoted to pinch-hitting before being returned to the minors later in the month. Gainer returned to the Rockies in September and was used only as a pinch-hitter, knocking two home runs. He did not play in the majors after that season.
Barbaro Canizares: A defector from Cuba who was signed by the Braves after playing in Nicaragua in 2006, Canizares shaved five years off his age and was actually 34 when he was playing at Class AAA Gwinnett in 2009. He was hitting .344 with 26 extra-base hits in 58 games when he was called up to the Braves to fill in for the injured Greg Norton. Canizares started four straight games, batting cleanup only in the first one, and went 4-for-17 before going back to the minors. He returned to the Braves to start one more game in July. He went to play in Mexico after the 2010 season and crushed the ball there. Maybe somebody can tell me what he's up to now but I am under the impression that he still harbors hopes of returning to the majors at age 38 (even though, according to Baseball-Reference.com, he's only 33).
[ADDED 11/12/14: Another Cuban defector, Jose Abreu, hit cleanup in his major league debut when he opened the 2014 season in the four-hole for the White Sox. Like Pete Incaviglia, Abreu had not played a game in Organized Baseball before his major league debut, although he had played professionally in Cuba. Abreu won Rookie of the Year honors, and his rookie season was by far the best of any player who hit cleanup in his debut.]
[ADDED 4/17/2015: Add Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant to the list, as he batted fourth in his big league debut today and became he first player to strike out three times while batting cleanup in his debut.]
[REVISED 4/18/2015:] Here now is the complete list of players who were in the starting lineup batting cleanup in their first major league game, along with how they did in their debut. Since I wrote this post in 2013, Baseball-Reference.com has added 1914 and 1915 to its database, resulting in four more players on the list, plus Jose Abreu from 2014 and Kris Bryant in 2015. Click on the player's name to see his career major league stats, and click on the date to see the box score of his first major league game.
Generated 4/18/2015.


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'Star Wars' Celebration Reveals 'Episode VII' Details, 'Star Wars Rebels' Concept Art
Star Wars Celebration Europe took place over the weekend, and it was chock-full of interesting news about Disney's first foray into George Lucas' beloved cinematic universe. In case you weren't there, here are some of the biggest announcements you missed.
In a move sure to please fans, composer John Williams will officially provide the score for Episode VII. This is not particularly surprising, as Williams had said previously that he wanted to compose the music and director J.J. Abrams said he was excited about the possibility. What is at least a little surprising is that Williams getting the gig means that regular Abrams' collaborator Michael Giacchino will be sitting this one out. The move to hire Williams is being viewed as a sign that Disney is interested in retaining the feel of the earlier Lucas films, which should make the purists happy.
Check out an interview with Williams talking about his hiring and more below. [via Collider]
That wasn't the only Episode VII news to emerge over the weekend, either. Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy gave fans an update on the newest title's development during a panel hosted by Warwick Davis. And while that Q&A session didn't reveal any major plot details, it did shine a light on where the new feature is in the development cycle.
Kennedy reveals she's spending all of her time going back and forth between her offices at Lucasfilm and Abrams' Bad Robot production company, where they're working diligently on the characters and story.
"The story and characters are all we're talking about right now. We have an amazing team at ILM, who can create fantastic effects, but if we don't have a great story and characters, the effects mean nothing. I do think making huge popular culture – and I've had the good fortune to be a part of a lot it – is really hard to do and get right. And if you don't spend the time you need on developing characters, and finding stories, complicated stories, the audience gets tired because they think they're seeing the same thing again and again."
You can find even more details in the video clip of the chat below. [via Coming Soon]
Finally, not everything this weekend revolved around Episode VII – after all, there are other Star Wars properties in development, including a new animated series titled Star Wars Rebels. Here's your first look at some of the concept art for the new show.
It's hard to get much of a feel for what the show will be based on these images (one above, the other below), but it does certainly look like something that fits right into the two decade gap between Episode III and the original Star Wars. Any series that chronicles the period where the Empire hunted down the last remaining Jedi Knights already has my interest… [via Collider]
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