One game. Oh for one. But I dug a little more
From dodgersblueheaven.com :
How Artie Dede became a Dodger is the stuff of legends. He was one of those Moonlight Graham kind of players -- having recorded just a single at-bat in his Major League career. In fact, Frank Graham Sr. (a sportswriter for the New York Sun) wrote in his 1981 book titled, "A Farewell to Heroes," that:
Dede was one of the sweetest men alive, everyone's idea of a gentle, twinkle-eyed, wisecracking grandfather. None of us minded that his jokes were pure cornball; it was the manner and not the substance of his patter that brought out the laughs. He had been a catcher for the Bushwicks and other semiprofessional teams of the World War I era and, responding to some long-forgotten emergency at Ebbets Field, had played in a single game for the Dodgers in 1916.
Dede may have never technically made it on the Dodgers playing roster. Instead, he was a well-regarded semipro catcher from Brooklyn who, based on his reputation as a knowledgeable player, got a gig as a 20-year-old bullpen catcher for both the NY Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers. His work with those clubs gave him the opportunity to catch Major League pitchers, such as; Christy Mathewson, Rube Marquard, Al Demaree, Sherrod Smith, Jack Coombs and Nap Rucker. He was also known to have traveled with the teams on occasion; having bunked with Jim Thorpe.
Fortunately, the circumstances surrounding his lone Major League at-bat has not been lost to time; as Frank Graham had mused above. Through the wonder of the internet we find a July 17, 1947 Brooklyn Daily Eagle story about it from Jimmy Murphy.
In 1916, during the second to last game of the season, Dede had his chance to enter the record books. The Dodger catchers (Chief Myers, Otto Miller and Mack Wheat) had banged up fingers, so the team decided to give them a spell. They brought in Artie Dede as an emergency catcher out of the bullpen. The Dodgers were on their way to winning their very first pennant of the century, and they likely decided it was best to rest their backstops before their World Series matches against the Boston Red Sox.
Artie Dede faced Giants pitcher Slim Sallee, recorded an out, and caught two innings.
And how was he as a scout?
"Everyone was high on [Koufax]," General Manager Buzzie Bavasi remembered years later. "I hadn't seen him play of course, but his father came in asked for $14,000. So, I called Arthur in and said, "Arthur, Mr. Koufax wants $14,000."
He said, 'If I had it, I'd give it to him.'
"That was enough for me."
I used the picture of him as an older gentleman and had a great facegen of him as a scout. I then smoothed it a lot until the glasses were gone and the smoothness imparted some youth. I see him in there though, smoothness notwithstanding. Either way, an improvement on an old file that has probably been untouched for years.