Minor League Baseball Players

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Ron Samford

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Ed Stein

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Daniel Paul

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Lou Skizas

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Danny Breeden

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Marv Fodor

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Bob Risenhoover

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Larry Himes

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Fred Hopke

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Mike Lee Grace

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Joe Carboni (Left) with Terry Brennan

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Are these players listed in the Argus Leader Newspaper for the Sioux Falls Packers? 1. William D. Smith Drafted by the Reds He played for the Packers 1971

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Originally Posted by rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com

Are these players listed in the Argus Leader Newspaper for the Sioux Falls Packers? 1. William D. Smith Drafted by the Reds He played for the Packers 1971

Catcher William Donald Smith was known as Don Smith in the Argus-Leader newspaper of Sioux Falls, SD, in 1971. The photo is from the June 29, 1971 edition of that newspaper.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=smith-019wil

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Ed Stein won 38 games in his first three minor league seasons and then never threw another pitch. I can only assume that arm problems caught up with him. In '63 his strikeouts dropped from 135 to 50.

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Here is a hard throwing southpaw of the 60's . Julius Grant was a good hitting pitcher. He went 58-55 over 8 minor league seasons and hit .200 with 5 home runs never advancing beyond AAA. His 6 Mexican league campaigns are a statistical mystery. It looks like he threw with velocity but command and control were an issue.
Here is Julius Grant with The Monterrey Sultans where he played from '63 to '68. Julius appears to be the brother Jim "Mudcat" Grant to whom he certainly bears a strong resemblance. I did not find anything yet stating this outright. Both Grants were born in different North Florida towns two years apart.

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Lou Skizak

Thanks for the pictures, but should be corrected to Lou Skizas...nicknamed "The Nervous Greek". Played with the Yankees (1956), KC A's (56-57), Tigers (58), and ChiSox (1959). Traded by the White Sox to the Cincinnati Reds in May 1959. Played 3 years as a Reds' farmhand, but never got back to the majors with them or any other team.

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Originally Posted by PinsonHOF

Ed Stein won 38 games in his first three minor league seasons and then never threw another pitch. I can only assume that arm problems caught up with him. In '63 his strikeouts dropped from 135 to 50.

Ed Stein suffered an elbow injury around August 1, 1963, but that was not the end of his career. He continued to pitch for Rocky Mount that August. The Tampa Times of Oct. 24, 1963 placed him with the Cincinnati Reds' winter league team and reported that he pitched a strong eight innings, yielding three runs and eight hits. That was the last game I could find for him. No explanation for why he didn't pitch again.

His Sporting News contract card indicates that following Rocky Mount, he was next assigned to Macon. On April 17, 1964, he was placed on the temporary inactive list, so my conjecture is that he was injured in a minor league spring training camp in 1964. He had no minor league record in 1964, and he went into voluntarily retired status on March 22, 1965.

He had been a non-roster invitee to the Cincinnati Reds' spring camp in 1963.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=stein-001edw

https://digital.la84.org/digital/col...edward%20stein

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

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Other than #17 Perez & #63 May. can anyone name the rest of these Reds? Don't know what year this is. Maybe 1961-1963.