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Torres played in the majors during 9 seasons with the New York Yankees (1971-92), Cleveland Indians (1973-74), California Angels (1976-77), Chicago White Sox (1978-79), and Kansas City Royals (1980).
Source: Baseball Reference
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Former New York-Penn League prospect Jeff James was born on this date in 1941. He played for the Elmira Pioneers in 1961.
James pitched in 35 games over two seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies (1968-69).
He died on May 7, 2006, at the age of 64.
Source: Baseball Reference
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Dustal pitched in 7 games for the Detroit Tigers during the 1963 season.
He died on November 30, 2015, at the age of 80.
Source: Baseball Reference
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The Auburn Mets will be affiliated with the New York Mets again for 1966 season.
Source: Associated Press and newspapers.com
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Happy 68th birthday to former New York-Penn League prospect Dick Davis. He played for the 1972 Newark Co-Pilots.
Davis played in the majors for 6 seasons for the Milwaukee Brewers (1977-80), Philadelphia Phillies (1981-82), Toronto Blue Jays (1982) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1982).
Source: Baseball Reference
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Krsnich played for the Milwaukee Braves during two seasons (1960, '62), appearing in a total of 11 major league games. He finished his baseball career playing in Japan (1964-66, '67).
He died on April 30, 2011, at the age of 79.
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Rooker played in the majors during 13 seasons with the Detroit Tigers
(1968), Kansas City Royals (1969-72), and Pittsburgh Pirates (1973-80).
He pitched in two games during the 1979 World Series.
After his playing days, he was a broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1981 to 1993.
Source: Baseball Reference
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Backman played in the majors for 14 seasons with the New York Mets (1980-89), Minnesota Twins (1989), Pittsburgh Pirates (1990), Philadelphia Phillies (1991-92), and Seattle Mariners (1993).
After his playing days, he has managed several seasons for independent league and minor league teams. He managed the independent league Long Island Ducks in 2021.
Source: Baseball Reference
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Zimmerman played in the majors during 8 seasons for the Cincinnati Reds (1961)
and Minnesota Twins (1962-68). He was one of the original coaches for
the Montreal Expos (1969-75) and coached for the Minnesota Twins from
1976 to 1980.
He died on September 9, 1998, at the age of 63.
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Phillips went on to pitch in 18 games for the 1970 Boston Red
Sox. He was inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979 and the Maine Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.
The Hamilton Red Wings lost to the Olean Oilers, 1-0 in the playoff finals. Olean leads the best of 7 series, 2 games to 1. Teams will play tonight at Bradner Stadium in Olean.
Source: Bradford Star and Evening Record and newspapers.com
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He pitched in the majors during 14 seasons with the Boston Red Sox
(1967, '69-'71), Milwaukee Brewers (1972), Philadelphia Phillies (1973),
Pittsburgh Pirates (1974-75), New York Yankees (1976), Chicago White
Sox (1976-77), California Angels (1977-78), Minnesota Twins (1979), Los
Angeles Dodgers (1979), and Kansas City Royals (1980-81).
His brother, George Brett was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999.
He died on November 18, 2003, at the age of 55.
Source: Baseball Reference
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Frederick R. "Sikes" Sica reports that Bud Fowler became the first former PONY League pitcher to make it to the major leagues. He is the third former PONY League player to make it to the majors behind Al "Skippy" Roberge and Lewis "Buddy" Gremp.
Source: Bradford Star and Evening Record and newspapers.com
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Yount played for 20 seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers (1974-93), finishing his career with 3,142 hits. During his career, he was a two time American League MVP and was named Major League player of the year in 1982. He was on the American League All-Star team in 1980, '82 and '83. During his career he was awarded one Gold Glove (1982), three Silver Sluggers (1980, '82, '89) and played in one World Series (1982).
Yount was selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999 and the New York-Penn League Hall of Fame in 2012.
Source: Baseball Reference
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Auburn, New York will become an affiliate of the Philadephia Phillies after the Minnesota Twins terminate their working agreement with Auburn.
Source: York Dispatch and newspaper.com
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He
continued his minor league career in 1946 and went on to play for the
New York Yankees for 9 seasons (1949-57). He played in the 1950 All-Star
game and played in 6 World Series for the Yankees (1949, '50, '51, '55,
'56 & '57).
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Heffner went to pitch for the Boston Red Sox (1963-65), Cleveland Indians (1966), and California Angels ( 1968).
Sources: Baseball Reference
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Seminick played in the PONY (Pennsylvania-Ontario-New York) in 1940 with the London Pirates. He went on to play 15 seasons in the majors with the Philadelphia Phillies (1943-51, '55-'57) and Cincinnati Reds (1952-55). Seminick played in the 1949 All-Star game and the 1950 World Series.
After his playing days, Seminick managed for 11 seasons in the minor
leagues, including one season in the the New York-Penn League with the
Elmira Pioneers (1959).
He died on February 22, 2004 at the age of 83.
Source: Baseball Reference
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Happy 57th Birthday to former New York-Penn League prospect Ellis Burks. He played for the Elmira Pioneers in 1983 (53 games, 2 HR, 23 RBI, .241/.313/.328).
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Burks went on to play 18 seasons in Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox (1987-92, 2004), Chicago White Sox (1993), Colorado Rockies (1994-98), San Francisco Giants (1998-2000), and Cleveland Indians (2001-03). He hit 352 career home runs and was a two time All-Star.
In 2002, Burks was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame.
Source: Baseball Reference
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The Bradford Bees defeated the regular season champion Olean Oilers, 6-4 in the first game of the semi-final round of the playoffs last night. They play again tonight at Bradford's Community Park.
(Source: Bradford Evening Star and the Bradford Daily Record & newspapers.com)
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Thompson played in the majors during four seasons with the Washington Senators (1971), St. Louis Cardinals (1973-74), and Atlanta Braves (1974-75).
Source: Baseball Reference
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He played in 78 games for the Boston Braves in 1945.
Shupe died on April 5, 1962, at the age of 40.
Source: Baseball Reference
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Happy Birthday to former New York-Penn League prospect Luis Gonzalez, who was born on this date in 1967. He played for the 1988 Auburn Astros.
Gonzalez was a 5-time All-Star during a 19 year major league career with the Houston Astros (1990-95, '97), Chicago Cubs (1995-96), Detroit Tigers (1998), Arizona Diamondbacks (1999-2006), Los Angeles Dodgers (2007) and Florida Marlins (2008).
Source: Baseball Reference
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Happy 70th Birthday to former New York-Penn League prospect Dave Criscione. He played for the Geneva Senators during two seasons (1970-71).
Criscione played in 7 games for the 1977 Baltimore Orioles. After his major league career, he was the head baseball coach at SUNY-Fredonia from 1999-2002.
Source: Baseball Reference
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Nippert played in four games for the Boston Red Sox in 1962.
Source: Baseball Reference
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