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While we're here, this should delight at least one veteran member.

The Chicago Daily News published a two-page spread showing the '68 White Sox late in spring training. There are two exceptional Never-Played-For-Thems in here, including the '63-'67 Orioles/Senators pitcher Leslie "Buster" Narum. A copy of the paper was recently sold on eBay, and it's not bad for 50-year old color-on-newsprint.

Traded to the White Sox in the winter of '67-68 he made the picture but not the team and basically refused to go back to the minors. The Sox then returned Narum to the Senators and he sure showed them: he spent 1968 with Washington's farm in Buffalo instead of with Chicago's in Honolulu. His last hurrah came with an invite to the Cards' 1969 camp.

(The two faces in the row in front of him are Dick "Buddy" Booker (a catcher whose career lasted about 100 days) and Tommy John (who lasted slightly longer).