Owner: Hangin' 'Em Up URL:www.hanginemup.com Join Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 15:01:58 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Today's news about yesterday's heroes. Find out whatever happened to your favorite baseball players after they hung 'em up. Written in a humorous and informative manner. Site statistics:Click here
Former Big Leaguers In The News…Denny McClain & Orlando Cepeda 2008-05-26 18:58:50 Crime doesn’t pay, kids…
The last pitcher to win thirty games in a season, Denny
McClain, was arrested recently after police arrived at his residence with eviction papers and found that he had an outstanding warrant for failing to show up in court on a civil issue. After spending a few hours in jail Denny somehow managed to post bail [...] Read more:Former
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Birthday Roundup…May 25th - May 31st 2008-05-26 01:27:17 Martin Dihigo (Born May 25th, 1906. Died May 20th, 1971): The Cuban ballplayer was elected into the Hall Of Fame in 1977 for his amazing play in the Negro and Mexican Leagues, and is widely considered one of the most versatile players ever as he excelled at all nine positions. His best season came in 1938 when he went [...] Read more:Birthday
Former Big Leaguers In The News…Quick Hits 2008-05-23 14:09:29 Let’s round up some of the latest news items featuring our former Big League heroes:
Six time All-Star Craig Biggio, who played the entirety of his twenty year career with the Houston Astros, has been named the manager of the baseball team at Houston’s St. Thomas High School. Biggio was an assistant with the team last year, [...] Read more:Former
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Former Big Leaguer In the News…Eddie Gaedel 2008-05-22 18:32:21 Kids today may have a hard time imaging a franchise more inept than the once regal Royals, but the truth is that the Kansas City club of recent years has more in common with the 1927 Yankees than the actual worst team ever, the St. Louis Browns. The now defunct Browns closed shop for good in 1953, and were so bad that in their [...] Read more:Eddie
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Former Big Leaguer In The News…Jose Canseco 2008-05-22 00:33:30 Jose has been making undignified headlines for some time now. During his playing days he got arrested for speeding over a 100 miles per hour, was seen leaving Madonna’s apartment while married (which may have lead to his arrest for allegedly hitting his wife), and even had a ball bounce off his head for a home run.
Jose was just getting warmed up, [...] Read more:Former
Former Big Leaguer In The News…Benito Santiago 2008-05-20 12:46:33 Full disclosure: I absolutely love Benito Santiago
. My fondness for the five time All-Star who, in addition to winning the Rookie Of The Year Award in 1987, also won three Gold Gloves, goes beyond his greatness on the field. Twenty or so years ago Benito went out of his way to sign an autograph for me before a game, [...] Read more:Former
Former Big Leaguers In The News…Quick Hits 2008-05-20 00:57:19 Let’s recap a few news items featuring yesterday’s boys of summer:
Hall Of Fame catcher Johnny Bench, 60, who guided the Reds to back to back World Championships in the seventies, will have a museum built in his honor in his hometown of Binger, Oklahoma. The shrine to all things Johnny will be 5,500-square-feet and shaped like the number 5, which was Johnny’s jersey [...] Read more:Former
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Whatever Happened To…Dennis Werth 2008-05-18 23:55:34 Jayson Werth’s big night with the Phillies not only lead us to wonder whatever happened to the guys who hit four homers in one game, but also Dennis
Werth, Jayson’s stepfather who played four seasons with the Yankees and Royals between 1979 and 1982.
The career .209 hitter never did anything nearly as exciting as what [...]
Whatever Happened To…The Guys Who Hit Four Homers In A Single Game 2008-05-17 18:52:38 Phillie’s outfielder Jayson Werth had a night to remember yesterday when he went deep three times in his first three at-bats against the Blue Jays. Jason, despite coming to the plate one more time, was unable to hit a fourth round tripper which would have made him only the sixteenth player in the history of the game to accomplish such a feat.
With history so [...]
Former Big Leaguers In The News…Quick Hits 2008-05-16 17:54:31 Let’s take a quick look at some smaller news stories featuring our former heroes:
Juan Acevedo, who pitched for eight different teams over the course of an eight year career that ended in 2003, has opened a martini bar and grill named Abanazz in East Dundee, a suburb of Chicago. Despite being Mexican, Juan’s restaurant offers a multi-ethnic menu that curiously leans toward Hung Read more:Former
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Hangin’ ‘Em Up…Sammy Sosa 2008-05-28 15:30:30 Slammin’ Sammy
announced today that he will retire for good after playing for the Dominican Republic in next March’s World Baseball Classic. “It would be great if folks can see me for the last time wearing the uniform of the Dominican Republic National Team,” Sammy told a newspaper in his homeland.
While he hasn’t ruled out playing [...] Read more:Hangin
Former Big Leaguer In The News…Jose Canseco 2008-05-28 14:23:34 We mentioned a few days ago that everyone’s favorite bash brother, Jose Canseco, plans to fight a boxing match in Atlantic City on July 12th, and was soliciting potential opponents over the internet.
Well, despite my hope that a pencil necked blogger (other than myself) might man up and fight Jose, it turns out the event’s promoter, Damon Feldman, found [...] Read more:Former
Whatever Happened To…The 1919 Black Sox Players 2008-05-28 13:00:33 No serious baseball fan would be at a loss for words if asked about the specifics surrounding the 1919 Chicago White Sox who, after winning the American League pennant for their penurious owner, Charles Comiskey, threw the World Series in exchange for a healthy pay day from big time gamblers. Eight “Black
Sox,” as they [...] Read more:Players
Called Up To The Big Show In The Sky…Geremi Gonzalez 2008-05-27 23:59:38 Geremi Gonzalez
, the former Cubs’ pitcher who won eleven games as a twenty-two year old in 1997, died Sunday after being struck by lightning on a beach in his homeland of Venezuela. He was just 33.
Geremi suffered the first of a series of arm injuries part way through the 1998 season that kept him out of Major League baseball [...]
Former Big Leaguers In The News…Naked People 2008-05-30 00:04:51 As I go about my job of researching what has happened to our former heroes once they’ve hung ‘em up I find that, for the most part, they’ve gone on to lead macho lives as cops, proprietors of bars, managers, etc. So it was with more than a little surprise that I stumbled upon the fact that in January of 1984 [...] Read more:Former
Former Big Leaguer In The News…Buddy Biancalana 2008-05-29 17:33:34 Despite only hitting .205 over a six year career in the Show, Buddy
Biancalana’s name is more recognizable today than even some former All-Stars’ thanks to his alliterative name, outstanding play in the World Series for the 1985 World Champion Royals, and for David Letterman instituting a Biancalana count-down calendar when the rest of the world was counting [...] Read more:Former
Hangin’ ‘Em Up…Bret Boone 2008-05-29 15:08:04 Joining Sammy Sosa in the “I am announcing my retirement even though most people thought I already had” club is three time All-Star Bret Boone
. Bret, who had his best season with the Seattle Mariners in 2001 when he hit .331 with 37 homers and 141 runs batted in, also snagged four Gold Glove awards in [...] Read more:Hangin
Former Big Leaguer In The News…Chuck Finley 2008-05-29 14:25:12 The “Los Angeles” Angels had a press conference yesterday to announce that they’d been awarded the 2010 All-Star game, and it brought out former players as if cockroaches when the lights turn off. Most of them just hovered around the buffet table, but five time All-Star ChuckFinley
, who spent fourteen years with the Angels in a very successful career that saw [...] Read more:Former
Whatever Happened To…The 1960s’ Los Angeles Dodgers 2008-05-30 17:39:14 The Los AngelesDodgers
were pretty damn good in the sixties. They won three pennants, two World Championships (in 1963 and 1965), and saw five players and one manager enter the Hall of Fame.
A legacy like that deserves recognition, so on May 23rd the Dodgers honored their sixties’ stars and snapped the above photo.
What follows are the names [...] Read more:Los Angeles
Former Big Leaguer In The News…Bobby Bonner 2008-05-30 15:52:36 Former Baltimore Orioles’ shortstop Bobby
Bonner will be a guest speaker at a gospel tent meeting starting June 1st at the First Baptist Church of Caldwell, New Jersey, to celebrate the church’s 160th anniversary. Bobby will likely speak more about his work as a Baptist minister in Zanbia, Africa, than his inability to hit a breaking ball.
Bobby, you may remember, [...] Read more:Former
Former Big Leaguer in the News…Bobby Murcer 2008-06-03 11:48:55 Former Yankees’ great Bobby
Murcer, who, like Senator Ted Kennedy, is currently battling brain cancer, has written a book, ”Yankee For Life, My Forty Year Journey in Pinstripes,” which hit stores on May 21st. The 304 page tome was co-written with Glen Waggoner, and should keep baseball fans turning the pages thanks to its many fascinating and often humorous stories [...] Read more:Former
Former Big Leaguer in the News…Buddy Biancalana 2008-06-02 17:25:46 Last week we told you how former Royals’ shortstop and current transcendental meditation expert Buddy
Biancalana had been hired by the St. Louis Cardinals to help their struggling pitching prospect, Adam Ottavino, get back on track.
Well, Adam pitched yesterday and it seems Buddy did a pretty damn good job.
Ottavino, who entered the game with an 0-4 record and 8.71 E.R.A., threw thr Read more:Former
Former Big Leaguer in the News…Pat Mahomes 2008-06-02 15:58:09 Pat Mahomes’ best season came in 1999 when, as a reliever with the New York Mets, he posted a perfect record of 8-0. Unfortunately, those numbers are more relevant to Pat today if you turn them around, as in .08, the maximum blood alcohol level one can legally drive a car with. This is because on May [...] Read more:Former
Birthday Roundup…June 1st - June 7th 2008-06-02 02:18:54 Otto Miller: (Born June 1st, 1889. Died March 29th, 1962): In 1920 the Brooklyn Dodgers’ slick fielding catcher was tagged by the Indians’ Bill Wambsganns for the third out of the only unassisted triple play ever recorded in the World Series. Otto, who also appeared in the 1916 World Series, finished his career with a .245 average [...] Read more:Birthday
Former Big Leaguer in the News…Lloyd Moseby 2008-06-05 00:05:55 Lloyd “Shaker” Moseby was literally at the center of a killer trio of home-run hitting outfielders the Toronto Blue Jays fielded back in the eighties. The centerfielder’s best year came in 1986 when he made the All-Star team after hitting 21 of the 90 homers hit by this trio and swiped 32 bases. He retired after twelve seasons in 1991, and [...] Read more:Former
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Can You Identify…This Former Big Leaguer? 2008-06-04 23:27:24 This is a new feature here at Hangin’ ‘Em Up…a challenge to you to recognize our former heroes long after they stepped away from the diamond, cancelled their gym membership, and got hooked on Fritos!
We’re throwing down the gauntlet and asking you to prove how big a fan you are. Are you a Hall of Fame worthy [...] Read more:Former
Former Big Leaguer in the News…Lloyd Moseby 2008-06-05 00:19:17 Lloyd “Shaker” Moseby was literally at the center of a killer trio of home-run hitting outfielders the Toronto Blue Jays fielded back in the eighties. The centerfielder’s best year came in 1986 when he made the All-Star team after contributing 21 of the 90 homers that he, George Bell, and Jesse Barfield hit. Additionally, he also swiped 32 bases. He retired after [...] Read more:Former
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Former Big Leaguer in the News…Lenny Dykstra 2008-06-09 17:45:49 Not too long ago we posted this article which told baseball fans what former Mets’ star turned financial guru, Lenny Dykstra, has been up to since hangin’ ‘em up.
Lately Lenny’s name has been in the news a lot thanks to his son, Cutter, an outfielder from Westlake High School who was drafted in the second round this year [...] Read more:Former
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