While looking for a picture of Marty, I came across this picture and it got me wondering what the longest names for a pitcher and catcher with the Reds has been. This photo my get the award, Scott Klingenbeck pitching, Eddie Taubensee catching - if nothing else they get the Germania Society Oktoberfest Award:
How about Dann Bilardello and Andy McGaffigan??
"Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it." Cal Hubbard
That's pretty good. I kept trying to think of any long named-relievers from the mid 90s who Damon Berryhill might have caught for.Originally Posted by George Anderson
Didn't we have some guy named Pennington?
Pennington + Berryhill = 19 though. Bah! Ya got me beat by one letter George. I may have to do some digging online now.
No one expects the butterfly
Well, if Jarrod Saltalamacchia makes it to the bigs and catches a few games, I suspect he'll win with whoever he catches.
Wear gaudy colors, or avoid display. Lay a million eggs or give birth to one. The fittest shall survive, yet the unfit may live. Be like your ancestors or be different. We must repeat!
Did Schoeneweis ever pitch to Pierzynski?
How about Spooneybarger?
Never overlook the obvious
How about Ken Raffensberger and Johnny Wyrostek.
(Sonny) Kim to (Dave) Ross might win for shortest.
Depending on who may have pitched when Ed Ott was catcher
Al Hollingsworth - Willard Hershberger
Ed Strelecki - Asby Asbjornson
Short names
Bo Diaz - Tom Hume
Ivy Wingo - Ken Ash
Whenever I see Hershberger's name, I always think of this...
Willard McKee Hershberger (May 28, 1910 – August 3, 1940) was a major league baseball catcher from 1938 to 1940. Hershberger has the unfortunate distinction of being the only major league player to commit suicide during the season.
In 1938, Hershberger joined the Cincinnati Reds and was the backup catcher to Ernie Lombardi.
The Reds were again in a pennant chase in 1940. A finger injury forced Lombardi out of the starting lineup in July, and Hershberger took over the full-time catching duties. He filled in for Lombardi well, batting .309 and playing solid defense. In July, the Reds blew a big lead in a game against the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds and, perhaps in the heat of the pennant race, some Reds players whispered that they would have won the game if Lombardi was catching. On August 2, with Hershberger again catching, the Reds lost to a poor Boston Braves club. The next day, August 3, 1940, Hershberger slit his wrists and throat with a razor in a Boston hotel. Ironically, the Reds went on to win the World Series that year, their first title in 21 years.
Trivia
After Hershberger's suicide, the Reds retired his uniform number 5 but then reactivated it in 1942. It was retired again for a Reds catcher a quarter-century later — Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Hershberger
Not a Battery or Reds but a record nonetheless.
William Joseph Van Landingham (born July 16, 1970 in Columbia, Tennessee) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played his entire Major League career with the San Francisco Giants (1994-1997).
On May 29, 1996, Van Landingham started against Jason Isringhausen, then a starter for the New York Mets. They tied a record for the longest combined names of two starting pitchers. Per Wikipedia
I should have thought of Van Landingham, a former UK pitcher
Bench has said he took the number 5 because "back then, catchers wore single digits." This story seems to corroborate that.
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How about Dave Van Gorder and Charlie Leibrandt?While looking for a picture of Marty, I came across this picture and it got me wondering what the longest names for a pitcher and catcher with the Reds has been. This photo my get the award, Scott Klingenbeck pitching, Eddie Taubensee catching - if nothing else they get the Germania Society Oktoberfest Award:
(Gotta do what I can for my boy Dave!)
Julz
Mark Lee to Ed Ott
Or for the long AND short of it:
John Candelaria to Ed Ott
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