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Originally Posted by Merkle923
I don't see him on "wanted lists" but since I stumbled over this in the pile of prints of my photos from 1979, I thought I should post him.
Although Dan Graham spent 1980 as the left-handed part of Earl Weaver's catching platoon with the Orioles, he debuted the year before with the Twins and played just two games on consecutive days in Boston in June as PH and DH. He had been with the Twins in New York the previous day (June 7) when I took this:
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I remember him. He had the one good platoon year with the Orioles, fell off the earth in '81. He could hit some, but he was a converted 3B who never quite mastered the art of catching. Earl Weaver said "Danny couldn't catch his own butt with both hands."