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Old 12-24-2016, 02:20 PM   #29747
dennis_keith
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New to the Wikipedia Oldest players List: Mossi and Savransky

The two youngest players on Wikipedia's oldest living major leaguers list are now pitchers Don Mossi (above: Cleveland) and Moe Savransky (below: Cincinnati) at # 124 and #125, respectively. They are the first two players to be listed who were born in 1929 and have not yet had their 88th birthday. Born two days apart in January 1929 they are currently about 87 years and 11 1/2 months old.
Mossi and Savransky also made their major league debuts as 25-year-olds less than a week apart in April 1954. While Savransky (MLB debut: 4/23/54) proved to be a "one year wonder" pitching only 16 games for Cincinnati in his only major league year, Mossi went on to have a nice 12 year MLB career through 1965, mostly for the Indians, and in fact in a recent poll he was voted one of the 100 greatest Cleveland Indians of all-time.
Mossi posted a nice 101-80 lifetime record with a lifetime earned run average of about 3.40 and with 55 Complete Games and 8 Shut Outs in about 1550 innings pitched. His longtime teammate and a two-time American league all-star reliever, Ray Narleski also made his major league debut in the same game as Mossi debuted in. (4/17/54).


The main Wikipedia list covers the 100 oldest living players. If you click the word EDIT on the top right of the main list you will get additional players listed beginning from #101 through the end of the list which is variable. The highest I've ever seen this supplementary list run to is #126, but sometimes it may only run to about #110 or even lower.
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