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welch
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:29 pm Post subject: Nats Connie Marrero 2nd oldest ballplayer |
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Only a few remember him, but Connie Marrero, a pitcher for the Washington Senators, is the second oldest ballplayer and probably the oldest pitcher. He signed about 1950 and pitched through 1954, not a long career except that he was about 38 or 39 when the Nats scout Joe Cambria signed him.
A little guy, always smoking a cigar. Find a picture of Cubans who played for the Nats in the '50s, and you'll find Marrero and his cigar.
Legend -- meaning my dad -- says that Clark Griffith let Marrero smoke his cigar in the dugout and in the bullpen. A five-foot-five-inch cloud of cigar smoke. Also a crafty pitcher. |
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Deadskins
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| Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 12:42 pm Post subject: Re: Nats Connie Marrero 2nd oldest ballplayer |
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| welch wrote: | | Only a few remember him, but Connie Marrero, a pitcher for the Washington Senators, is the second oldest ballplayer and probably the oldest pitcher. |
What do you mean by "second oldest?" |
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welch
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| Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:15 pm Post subject: Re: Nats Connie Marrero 2nd oldest ballplayer |
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| Deadskins wrote: | | welch wrote: | | Only a few remember him, but Connie Marrero, a pitcher for the Washington Senators, is the second oldest ballplayer and probably the oldest pitcher. |
What do you mean by "second oldest?" |
Wiki thinks the oldest is is Tony Malinosky, who played a few games for the Dodgers in 1937.
Marrero pitched five seasons. See:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/marreco01.shtml.
Note his '52 and '53 seasons. Baseball statistics nuts love the "walk/hits per innings pitched", or WHIP. Marrero had a WHIP of 1.2 (considered very good) both seasons...when he was 41 and 42 years old. Compare him to Livan Hernandez last season, who was the Nats best and had a WHIP of 1.3 at a youthful 35 years old. |
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welch
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| Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 7:27 am Post subject: |
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Update: Marrero is now the oldest living player.
Incidentally, Livan Hernandez says that Connie taught him the screwball.
Live long and prosper, Connie Marerro! |
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