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Ed Farmer 1971
The veteran White Sox announcer and well-traveled reliever appeared just 11 times for Texas in 1979. In the sixth of these games, on May 8, Farmio hit Al Cowens of Kansas City with a pitch and fractured his jaw. In the same game he hit Frank White and broke his wrist. Between them the two Royals' stars missed 54 games.
Farmer was dealt to Chicago on June 15; Cowens was sent to the Angels in December, and then to the Tigers on May 27 of the next season. Less than a month later, though each was with a new team, when Farmer induced Cowens to ground out, Cowens charged the mound and tackled Farmer from behind. Cowens was suspended and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Farmer later dropped charges and the two took the line-up cards to the plate on September 1 and shook hands. And if you ask Ed to tell you this story, it's a lot better, and a lot longer.
For our purposes, this is the only known color image of Farmer in Rangers garb, and it's buried in the back of the team's 1979 yearbook.
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