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Teach
12-27-2013, 07:57 PM
"FEAR STRIKES OUT"...TONY PERKINS STARRED;
'BOUT A RED SOX PLAYER EMOTIONALLY SCARRED.

HE PLAYED CENTER-FIELD HAVING STARTED AT SHORT;
GREAT DEFENSIVELY WE CAN REPORT.

IN FIFTY-SIX..MOST DOUBLES ALL CLUBS;
HIS HUSTLING PLAY PRODUCED TICKET STUBS.

BY THE EARLY-SIXTIES BEGAN MAKING THE ROUNDS;
FIRST THE TRIBE..THEN THE NATS...EVEN THE POLO GROUNDS.

IN KENNEDY'S DAY..NO LONGER FRESH IN THE TRACES;
HIS HUNDREDTH HOMER..HE RAN BACKWARDS 'ROUND THE BASES.

HE FINISHED HIS CAREER PLAYING OUT IN L-A;
HE‘D LATER DO COLOR AND PLAY-BY-PLAY.

THERE WAS NO DENYING.. HE COULD HAVE BEEN A STAR;
BUT HIS ON-THE-FIELD ANTICS WERE CONSIDERED BIZARRE.

Ocala Mike
12-27-2013, 09:49 PM
Easy one, and I remember him playing: Jimmy Pearsall!

Teach
12-28-2013, 06:54 AM
Correct! Ocala Mike.