Minor League Baseball Players

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Greg Jancich San Diego Padres. was a NRI for the Reds in 1962.

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1961 Topeka Reds Mario Zambrano

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Harvey Alex 1962 MRI Reds

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Carl Thomas w San Diego Padres in 1960 Reds Farm hand. Thomas was a NRI. for the Reds in spring of 1960

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Fred Hutchinson w from left to right. Chico Ruiz, Francisco Obregon, Tommy Harper & Cookie Rojas

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1960 Topeka Reds Marv Fodor

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Andy Rubillota

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1961 Topeka Reds Tommy Harper

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Larry Rancourt 1961 Topeka Reds

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Looking for a Robert Ferguson picture, played 1939 and 1940 for Superior (Northern League) and Allentown (Interstate League).

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Originally Posted by scott1964

Looking for a Robert Ferguson picture, played 1939 and 1940 for Superior (Northern League) and Allentown (Interstate League).

I spent a fair amount of time on this, but could not come up with a photo. I think this is Lefty Bob Ferguson, who hails from Rock Island, IL. He was a semi-pro pitcher with a team called the Enright Coalers of Rock Island when he signed with the NY Giants in July of 1938. They sent him to Cedar Rapids of the Three Eye League, though Baseball-reference.com doesn't show it. There were many hits on his name during his 1940 season with Allentown, and supposedly he was going to the Boston Bees at the end of it. I lost his trail after that. Tried to find his Sporting News contract card, but there doesn't seem to be one. There are several other Robert Fergusons in that file, but not one who was with Superior and Allentown.

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Originally Posted by rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com

Looking for these players 1. Terrance Baller 2. Daniel Bartko 3. Roger Armstrong 4. John Anthony Biancamano 1961

Roger Armstrong appears here in the uniform of the 1960 Montgomery Rebels. The photo comes from the Alabama Journal of April 26, 1960.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=armstr001rog

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Here is a 6'4 hurler who spent 10 seasons in the Phillies organization. He pitched well enough 59 wins and an 3.81 ERA with an 11-6 effort in AAA in 1964 but never a drop in that hoped for cup of coffee. Unusual in looking in his numbers that Harry was predominately a relief pitcher during his minor league career when relievers would routinely surpass 100 innings, Considering the infamous collapse of Gene Mauch's '64 Phillies , perhaps he could have gleaned a surprisingly effective spot start out of Harry Oliver amid the swoon. Mauch kept sending his diminishing staff and spent starters out on 2 days rest and not once did it work. It didn't help that Phillies management had previously traded lefty Curt Simmons to the eventual World Champion Cardinals. But that's another thread altogether I.E, Steve Carlton ...

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Originally Posted by Cusick

Here's a non-roster invitee who is in the Hall of Fame. Happens to be the Mexican Hall of Fame, rather than Cooperstown, but he had a rather substantial career nonetheless. Meet Miguel "Becerril" Fernandez. He was primarily a shortstop, but was found playing third base in Pittsburgh Pirates' exhibition game box scores during the spring training season of 1957.

Baseball-reference.com only touches the surface of his stats in the Mexican League. According to the Encyclopedia of Mexican Baseball, he played 14 seasons in the Mexican League, had a batting average of .286, and accumulated over 1500 hits. In 1961, he hit .332 for the Mexico City Red Devils (Diablos Rojos).

The photo comes from a website called tommyatbat.blogspot.com.

Miguel Fernandez Register Statistics & History | Baseball-Reference.com

played in the Reds system in 1959.

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Any photos of Ross Grimsley Sr. as a Nashville Voleteer or a Reds? played in the Reds system in 1955

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Originally Posted by rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com

Any photos of Ross Grimsley Sr. as a Nashville Voleteer or a Reds? played in the Reds system in 1955

No luck. Grimsley was in the Reds' system for less than 3 weeks in 1955. He joined Nashville via a sale to the Reds by Charleston on July 20 and was sold to Omaha in the Cardinals' system on August 5. Though Grimsley's name appeared several times in the Nashville newspapers, his photo didn't.

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Originally Posted by rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com

Looking for these players 1. Terrance Baller 2. Daniel Bartko 3. Roger Armstrong 4. John Anthony Biancamano 1961

Biancamano is shown here in his Fairleigh-Dickenson University uniform. The photo is from the Jersey Journal (Jersey City, NJ) of Oct. 21, 1960. He was an outfielder.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=bianca001joh