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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1851 Frank Buttery
1853 Felix Moses

Felix Inglesby Moses is listed as the manager of the 1884 Richmond Virginias of the Union Association. He really wasn’t a manager in the sense of today – Moses was more of a business manager, but he would have had some inputs into things. Moses was involved first as a business manager for the franchise in what was going to be called the Union League, but later became the Eastern League because the owner, W. C. Seddon (Moses’ boss) was to lead that organization. Then Richmond got a franchise in the Union Association and Moses was put in charge of that franchise. His role couldn’t have been that significant (even as business manager) – Justin McKinney’s excellent book on the history of the Union Association doesn’t even mention him.

That said, Moses did leave a greater impresion on his friends. Admitting this was written about Moses after he died, it’s still a kind sentiment. “Of few men in Sheffield could it be said as it is said of Felix Moses: “He did not have an enemy in the city. Everybody respected him and all who really knew him, knew him to love him.”

Felix himself was a merchant of sorts, a partner in Moses & Clemmons, dealing in cotton and fertilizer in Richmond, until that organization dissolved in 1883. He actually started as a clerk in New York, working for a family friend who was originally from his native Charleston, South Carolina. After the Union Association also dissolved, Moses and his wife, the former Agnes DeLeon, took their two daughters and moved to Sheffield, Alabama. (Agnes herself is a Daughter of the American Revolution; her great-great grandfather is Captain Jacob DeLeon, who fought in the Battle of Camden.)

Anyway – Moses was still a young man when he passed to the next league – eight days shy of his 36th birthday (May 13, 1853). That said, his grave stone says he was born on September 9, 1852. He is buried in the Congregraton B’Nai Israel Cemetery in Sheffield.

North American Family Histories
1870 US Census

“Dissolution,” Richmond Dispatch, December 2, 1883: 4.
“The Eastern League,” Richmond Dispatch, January 6, 1884: 4.
“Virginia News,” Norfolk Virginian, May 9, 1889: 4.
“The State at Large,” Weekly Age-Herald (Birmingham, AL), May 15, 1889: 1.
Obit – Agnes Deleon Moses, Charlotte Observer, December 15, 1936: 17.

1859 Leo Smith
1864 Jack McGeachey
1870 George Bristow
1878 Frank Hemphill
1878 Jack Burns
1883 Jimmy Archer
1884 John Halla
1884 Alex Main
1884 Bert Niehoff
1886 Larry Gardner
1886 Frank Miller
1886 Fred Hutchinson
1890 Otis Lambeth
1895 Frank Mills
1895 Red Lanning
1897 Hugh Canavan
1901 Red Haley
1901 Pat Burke
1901 Leo Taylor
1901 John Jones
1902 Hal Neubauer
1904 Pen Gilliard
1909 Leroy Morney
1910 Boze Berger
1917 Lou Stringer
1917 Carden Gillenwater
1918 Lon Goldstein
1918 Pedro Miro
1920 Sam Segraves
1924 Cliff Fannin
1927 Dusty Rhodes
1928 Riverboat Bob Smith

Lefty pitcher for the Red Sox, Cubs, and Indians in 1958 and 1959, signed by the Red Sox out of that evil university that bolted the Big 12 to join its confederacy brethren of the SEC (Mizzou).  Tolerable for the Sox in 1958, but traded to the Cubs for Chuck Tanner.  Made one appearance and gave up something like 29 runs (not really, it was 6 runs in 2/3 of an inning), so he was traded to Cleveland for Randy Jackson.  Spent the better part of 13 years in the minors…

1931 Jack Shepard
1933 John Roseboro
1934 Don LeJohn
1934 Leon Wagner
1935 Bill Dailey
1942 Billy MacLeod
1947 Steve Kealey
1949 Terry Hughes
1950 Juan Beniquez
1950 Bobby Valentine
1960 Lenny Faedo
1965 Jose Rijo
1966 Chris Nichting
1968 Braulio Castillo
1969 Lyle Mouton
1971 Mike Sirotka
1975 Mickey Callaway
1975 Jack Cressend
1977 Robby Hammock
1977 Chris Oxspring
1978 Ryan Bukvich
1978 Barry Zito
1983 Clay Timpner
1983 Zach Jackson
1985 David Hernandez
1986 John Ely
1987 D. J. Mitchell
1990 Mychal Givens
1991 J. R. Murphy
1991 Austin Maddox
1992 Willson Contreras
1993 Gerardo Reyes
1993 Taylor Clarke
1993 Max Moroff
1996 Eli Morgan
1996 Justus Sheffield
1997 Nico Hoerner
1997 DaShawn Keirsey, Jr.
1998 Mickey Moniak
2001 Jose Rodriguez

OBITUARIES:

1903 Thomas Lynch
1905 Sam Gillen
1929 George Stallings
1943 Jack Hendricks
1943 Pat Malone
1953 Jim Field
1955 Lefty George
1961 Al Humphrey
1961 Binky Jones
1965 Bill Brown
1965 Dick Wantz
1967 Eddie Pick
1967 Jim Walsh
1970 Urbane Pickering
1970 Johnny Stuart
1973 Peanuts Davis
1974 Vet Barnes
1977 Adam DeBus
1983 Lerton Pinto
1984 Russ Young
1984 Walt French
1989 Al Reiss
1991 Hal Gregg
1993 Milt Jordan
2000 Melzar Williams
2002 Bill Rodgers
2003 Leon Kellman
2007 Gomer Hodge
2010 Jay Schlueter
2015 Earl Averill
2016 Sammy Ellis
2016 Dick McAuliffe
2020 Garland Shifflett
2022 Maurice Fisher
2023 Bob Garibaldi
2024 Bill Murphy
2025 Rich Rollins

YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!

1952 Rocket Ron Necciai fans 27 Welch (WV) Batters in the Appalachian League. One player reached on a drop third strike – else it would have been a perfect game.

1958 Stan Musial gets his 3000th hit of Moe Drabowsky of the Cubs.

2015 Indians starter Corey Kluber fans 18 in just eight innings, allowing one hit, before being pulled for a reliever in a 2 – 0 win over the Cards.

Also, it’s funky hits day… Bobby Doerr (1947), Fred Lynn (1980) and Fred Lewis (2007) all hit for the cycle. Joe Kuhel tied a MLB record with 3 triples (1937), and Billy Werber (1940) and Kirby Puckett (1989) tied records with four double games.

TRANSACTION WIRE:

1960 The Cubs acquire Don Cardwell and Ed Bouchee from the Phillies for Tony Taylor and Cal Neeman.

2007 Florida sends reliever Jorge Julio to Colorado for reliever Byung-Hyun Kim.