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Piniella was selected by the Seattle Pilots in the 1968 expansion draft in October, but was traded after spring training on April 1, 1969 to the Kansas City Royals for John Gelnar and Steve Whitaker. [21] Piniella at-bat in a 1983 spring training game
The 1969 Seattle Pilots season was the only season of the Seattle Pilots, a Major League Baseball team. ... Lou Piniella [12] Cleveland Indians 28th
Jim Bouton was a Pilots relief pitcher through most of 1969, his contract having been sold to the Seattle Pilots by the New York Yankees in mid-1968. [35] His book Ball Four is based on a journal that Bouton kept during the 1969 season. [ 36 ]
Jim Leyland, Lou Piniella, Cito Gaston and Davey Johnson are among eight men on the ballot for the Hall of Fame’s contemporary era committee for managers, executives and umpires that meets on ...
FILE - New York Yankees' Lou Piniella waits to be introduced at the Yankees Old Timers' Day baseball game June 17, 2018, at Yankee Stadium in New York.
On December 2, 1967, Gerry Snyder presented a bid for a Montreal franchise to Major League Baseball's team owners at their winter meetings in Mexico City.One potential wild card in Montreal's favor was that the chair of the National League's expansion committee was influential Los Angeles Dodgers president Walter O'Malley, under whom the minor league Montreal Royals had become affiliated with ...
Cincinnati Reds championship manager Lou Piniella missed election to the Hall of Fame by one vote twice. He has a steeper climb next time, in 2026. Hall of Fame committee deserves dirt kick for ...
His contract was purchased by the Kansas City Royals from the Pirates after the 1968 season, but he was traded by the Royals with Steve Whitaker to the Seattle Pilots for Lou Piniella prior to the 1969 season. [2] He was traded by the Brewers with José Herrera to the Detroit Tigers for Jim Hannan on May 11, 1971. [3]