Reds:
Sam LeCure (28) -Sam's wife Megan plays professional fast-pitch softball. Actually I'm not sure about their marital status at the moment; they were separated at one point and I'm not sure if they reconciled or divorced or whatever.
Miguel Cairo (38) -The last original Tampa Bay Devil Ray still active in the bigs.
John Tsitouris (76) -The Reds traded Joe Nuxhall to get him, which is like the Vatican trading away the Pope. John had a good year or two for us, though...
Others:
Rene Lachemann (67) -Rene and his brothers Marcel and Bill, the sons of a hotel chef, all had long coaching careers. One of them played a washed-up pitcher in a famous commercial, but I can't remember the details, or which brother it was Actually I think it was Marcel...
Jack Tobin -A career St. Louis Brown; part of a terrific outfield with Ken Williams and Baby Doll Jacobson.
Charlie Hickman -Nicknamed "Piano Legs", which would indicate a certain slowness afoot, although he did have 72 career steals. A graduate of West Virginia University, he returned there after his playing days and served in a number of government positions, including mayor of Morgantown.
Let me digress a moment here: I keep hearing that yesterday's Bailey/Dempster matchup was the first between two pitchers sharing a birthday. My question is: HOW CAN THIS POSSIBLY BE TRUE??? Okay, in every game there's a starting pitcher. The odds that he other starter will have the same birthday are 1 in 365. So by the law of averages it should happen once in every 365 games. You're telling me that in all the thousands upon thousands of games that have been played in major league history, that's never happened before? I'm sorry; I find that hard to believe...