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Elder White 1962
The Opening Day shortstop of the '62 Chicago Cubs, White hit .158, was sent down in May, had a brief return in June, then continued to play in the minors (mostly in Chicago's farm system) through 1965. The Cubs had gotten him in '61 after he slammed 51 homers in three years on the lower rungs of the Pirates' chain.
The Cubs' panicky decision making at short came from the decision in 1962 to switch Ernie Banks to 1st Base. White started the opener, but was pinch-hit for by Andre Rodgers in his third at bat. Rodgers started the next two games (the Cubs were swept three by the brand new Houston Colt 45s). White and Rodgers traded the job back and forth as the Cubbies lost their first seven. The Cubs moved Ron Santo to short on May 11, and after a week of that, moved him back to third, tried Daryl Robertson, then traded Robertson to the Cardinals for shortstop Alex Grammas, then finally gave up and put first White and then Rodgers back in the line-up. Shortstop wouldn't be settled until Don Kessinger came up in 1965.
As Baseball-Reference notes, Elder White (his real name, and he had nothing to do with the naming of the character of the same name in "Book of Mormon") drove in one MLB run - and was thrown out trying to stretch his RBI single into a double. He's not unknown in color but I don't know that these two Braces have been seen before.
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