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September 12, 2005
Bad Kurznach Davidson
Yankees.com has a nice story out today on Stefan Wever - who was sorta/kinda like a Moonlight Graham for the Yankees.
Actually, Arthur Ingram (Art) Goodwin was more like Moonlight for the Yankees - getting into just one single game for a big league career and doing nothing. Well, close to nothing: 1/3 of an IP, facing 5 batters and allowing 4 of them to score, on 10/7/1905. (Wow, the seasons went late back then.)
Anyway, what's interesting to me here is that Stefan Wever was born in West Germany. Only four players in Yankees history were born there: Wever, Dave Pavlas (Gosh, remember him?), Mike Blowers (ditto), and a pitcher named Bob Davidson who made it to one game in July 1989. And, Davidson was born in Bad Kurznach, West Germany. Really, that's the name of the place.
Bad Kurznach.
It's a shame that Davidson never went on to star. That would have been one helluva nickname: Bad Kurznach Davidson. Oh, that would have been so cool.
Posted by Steve Lombardi at September 12, 2005 04:02 PM
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Dave Pavlas: Former replacement player, closer with Columbus
Mike Blowers: Made the first of 3 errors in Andy Hawkins' no-hitter. 3b prospect, came up around the same time that Bam Bam Meulens was supposed to save the franchise
Yep, I remember 'em (:
Posted by: Raf at September 12, 2005 04:36 PM
Oh, God, the '80s! (and early '90s) Would have been interesting to see what Piniella could have done with them considering his track record with young hitters. Of course, pitching was the fundamental problem and Lou is, even now, clueless about that.
Posted by: JohnnyC at September 12, 2005 05:38 PM
Just read the article.
Nice.
Good to see Wever not consumed by the "what if" part of the game.
If his shoulder was acting up before Billy, I can only imagine what it would've been like after a full season of Billy. He'd be lucky to still have an arm.
WRT injury surgery & recovery, we've come a long way since 1983
Posted by: Raf at September 12, 2005 05:39 PM
Actually, Bad in German means bath, as in take a bath. Nach means after and Kurz means short. There is a city of Bath in England and during the Romantic period it was common for the intellegentsia to go to places that had hot baths occuring in natural conditions. Richard Wagner was famous for always wanting to go to these places to relieve his stress. They did not have hot water heaters like we do today. I wonder if After a Short Bath in Germany is one such place?
Posted by: Scott Coulter at September 12, 2005 06:45 PM