Keith Picht states he played for the Pittsburg Pirates 84-88.\nWe cannot find anything that indicates he was with the club during those years.  He also states he was with the Major League club last month of 87 and first month of 88.  Please tell me how I can find something that validates this.  Thank you
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While it may be possible that Keith Picht played major league baseball, there are no baseball cards of Keith Picht in any of the years you mentioned or any year for that matter.  If you want to see if he played, I would check out www.baseballreference.com just type his name in the search box.  any other questions just drop me an email.
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I looked a little more about this for you and found this story about the pink jersey. Sorry it's kind of lengthy, but tells it all. Enjoy!\n\nThe Mystery of the Pink Jersey\n\nMike Laga amassed 423 career AB over the course of nine seasons between Detroit, St. Louis and San Francisco.  He had a .199 career average, and is probably best known for being the only player to have hit a baseball actually out of Busch Stadium (A foul ball left the park in September of 1986).  \n\nBut for me, Mike Laga will always be remembered for something else: The 1987 Topps card which depicts him wearing an airbrushed-pink jersey!  \n\nIn all my youth, the closest baseball cards came to perfection were those ’87 Topps.  Sure the early Upper Decks were nice; and I won’t sell the 1988-1989 and 1991-1992 Donruss sets short.  But those ’87 Topps had that special something: the perfect mix between action and posed photos.  The player-name box was tastefully understated.  The team logo was just the right size.  Many remember that set for the wood-grain frame that brought it all together.\n\nThe answer to the Mike Laga question has eluded me for years.  As a boy I wondered “why is Mike Laga wearing a pink jersey?”  Later it became “why would somebody at Topps airbrush a guy’s jersey pink?”\n\nMy first thought was that it might be an error card.  I hoped that something had happened when the film was being processed that botched the photo.  Error cards are worth a lot of money, right?  My 1981 Fleer Craig Nettles is an error card, and at one point it was worth $5.  $5!!!  I’ve got 800 of these Mike Laga cards, I might be rich!\n\nMy sister and I must have spent an entire summer trying to track down the 1988 Donruss Mark Grace rookie card; or the Fleer Billy Ripken with the dirty word on the knob of the bat.  I knew error cards were worth a lot of money (to a nine-year-old), and so when I saw that the ’87 Mike Laga was worth a mere $0.03, I quickly dismissed the notion that it was a true “error card.”  \n\nOne possibility is that Topps used a photo from Mike’s time in Detroit, although my first instinct is to reject this premise: the Tigers did utilize the three-band strip of elastic around the neckline, but the Tigers jerseys of 1986 buttoned-down (unless I am mistaken; admittedly I am not an authority on the history of Tigers uniforms).  The photo of Laga clearly indicates a jersey without buttons is being worn.  \n\nPlus, baseball card photos are traditionally taken during spring training, right?  Mike got dealt to St. Louis in 1986, so they could’ve easily snapped another photo of him during spring training of 1987; or they could have easily taken an action shot from the end of 1986.\n\nEven if this was a modified photo of Mike Laga in a Tigers jersey, it differed from what Topps would typically do for this situation.  For example, the 1988 Topps Doug DeCinces (card #446) features DeCinces in an Angels uniform having rounded second-base and possibly watching a play develop at third.  Across the top of the card the name “Angels” is spelled out in block letters, but in the lower-left corner of the card in 6 or 8 pt black type is written “Now with Cardinals.”  If the only thing that Topps had available for Mike Laga was a 1986 photo of him with the Tigers, why not simply note in the corner that he is “Now with Cardinals,” like they did for DeCinces?  \n\nI do know that card companies pay players for their photos (although in the 1980s it probably wasn’t much).  Did Topps not want to pony up an extra hundred bucks to pay Laga for a new photo?  If they felt that Mike was such a marginal player, why include him in the set at all?  In any event, the total costs of detailing a Mike Laga photo in 1987 probably far exceeded that of just paying him the $100 for a new photo.     \n\nAlthough the Mike Laga card is a mystery, it is not my favorite card in Topps set of 1987 (no disrespect to Mr. Laga).  My favorite was al
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Good Question:\n\nNL (starters):\nC: Johnny Estrada: 6HR, 45RBI, .315AVG\n1B: Pujols: no need for numbers\n2B: Chase Utley\nSS: Jose Reyes: tablesetter; he scares me.\n3B: D. Wright: his catch early season was sick...and he can hit.\nOF #1: Berkman\nOF#2: Beltran\nOF#3: Carlos Lee\nNL (2nd teamers)\nC: David Ross: 100 less AB's to McCann better numbers in everything except AVG.\n1B: Nomar\n2B: Dan Uggla\nSS: Freddy Sanchez\n3B: Miguel Cabrera: big numbers, small amount of protection in that lineup.\nOF#1: Andruw Jones\nOF#2: Soriano\nOF#3: Dunn: This is only because I really wanted to see him in the homerun derby. Holliday deserves it.\n\nSP: Brandon Webb\n\nAL starters: \n\nC: Mauer\n1B: Ortiz (Playing in NL park)\n2B: Least deserving all star postion on both leagues. I'll take Jose Lopez.\nSS: Tejada\n3B: A-Rod\nOF#1: Dye\nOF#2: Wells\nOF#3: Ramirez\n\nSP: Liriano: He has 1/2 the amount of starts as other pitcher and all of his numbers are top 10 or better. Plus if you're on the AL team and you have a shot at World Series Home field advantage do you really want Rogers 3.65+ ERA on the mound? Most of the NL has hit off of him several times. Liriano hasn't faced but a few of the NL hitters and most of them have seen him less than 5 times.\nAL Second stringers\nC: Ramon Hernandez: 15HR 61RBI--how many catchers have ever put up these numbers before all-star break?\n1B: Haffner or Thome? Gotta go Thome because of teams overall record.\n2B: Brian Roberts: if it was up to me Lopez would be my only true 2B.\nSS: Jeter: Glue that has held that team together after all of their injuries\n3B: Crede: I would take similiar RBI's and better defense compared to Glaus.\nOF#1: Crawford: I love extremely fast guys who hit for power and high average\nOF#2: Rios\nOF#3: Vlad: His defense puts him over Mags\n\n*****If the fans (including myself) continue to vote Paul laaaaaduca into the all-star game I say fans should wave their right to decide the starters. Secondly; one rep from each team should be abolished.
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I am a Tiger fan, and I wouldnt go that far.\n\nThey do lead the league, or are pretty high up, in all major catergories.\n\nMaroth was pitching the best stuff of his career when he went down, and that hurt us.\n\nJOnes & Rodney are almost lights out...except on those rare occassions when they blow it.\n\nI think Kenny Rodgers has been a very powerful influence on this staff. You see him in the dugout talking to other pitchers and goofing around with the other players.\n\nHe has loosened up this staff, and made them realize how good they can be.\n\nMaroth should be back in late July, and that will be just in time to revive our staff.\n\nI really do not expect them to keep it up all season, although it would be nice.\n\nI am simply enjoying the season as it is.\n\nI am still pinching myself to see if I am dreaming.
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The New York Yankees celebrated "Lou Gehrigs Day" on July 4, 1939\n\nFans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been to ballparks for seventeen years and I have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn’t consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure I’m lucky. Who wouldn’t have considered it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball’s greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I'm lucky. When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat and vice versa, sends you a gift, that’s something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in the white coats remember you with trophies, that’s something. When you have a father and mother who work all their lives so that you can have an education and build your body, it's a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed, that's the finest I know. So I close by saying that I might have had a bad break, but I have an awful lot to live for. Thank you."\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Gehrig
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This travesty is one of the few that still remain in sports today.  The league has cracked down on the changing strike zone and I know this will be worked on next year.  You are right on, though, it is a joke and a pity that they won't start making the call as it should be made as they do in all other levels of the sport!  Great question!
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It's true that Jeter is not the very best at any one aspect of the game. He might not be the best fielder although he does have great moments on the field. He certainly isn't a record breaking home run hitter although is 4 hits away from 2000 in his career and if he continues at this pace could reach 3000 which is a rare thing to do. And you're right - he is not as clutch as people make him out to be, although he has come through in some very very important spots in the past.\n\nSo yes, he doesn't stand out as particularly amazing in any one category of statistics. What makes Jeter so great is that he's an amazing all around player. He bats high in the line up so he's not supposed to be a home run hitter, he's supposed to get on base and he does that very well. He plays the game the right way. That's why he's the captain of the Yankees, which is a huge honor. He's a leader. He always plays to win. NYY fans are not all about the spectacle of home runs (the Yanks don't shoot off fireworks), they like to see the game played right with the thought of October in mind. Jeter also doesn't wilt under the pressure of New York, instead it motivates him. That's also important to why he's so well liked.\n\nI don't understand your point about him playing for the Pirates. You've just started watching the Yanks. If Jeter was playing for the Pirates, when you started watching their games they would probably talk about him a lot. He gets attention because he's a good player (though perhaps not outstanding), a leader on the team, and he's pretty good with the media. He's well spoken. If Jeter played for the Pirates he wouldn't get the national attention he does now, but he would still get attention from local fans & media because he's a good player. If you just started watching Yankee games of course you are gonna hear about Jeter. He's the face of the Yankees as much as Damon used to be the face of the Red Sox. And the Yankees are a very well known team. Pretty much every player on the Yanks gets more media attention than players on the Pirates. It's just not a fair comparison.\n\nHe gets paid a lot of money because he's on the Yankees. Not because he's pretty. Of course, you might have meant why does he get paid so much attention, and then yes, the fact that he's attractive doesn't hurt. That always comes across well on camera. But it's not just looks. Like I said before, he's well spoken too. If he never said a word to the media and was negative towards them all the time, he wouldn't get nearly the attention he does now, and if he did it would be negative. Jeter has a good personality and doesn't shy away from the media, that's why they are so positive towards him, and I guess why he ends up with a lot of hype. He's just a really nice guy, who plays the game right, and people want to say nice things about him.\n\nPS - it's Derek, not Derick
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I've got to agree with DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak here.\n\nSome fun history about the streak:\n\nGame 57 was against Cleveland, who boasted one of the best defensive third basemen in the game at the time.  DiMaggio was robbed TWICE on backhanded stops down the line and thrown out.\n\nThe day after game 57... DiMaggio started another hitting streak of 26 games.\n\nSo do the math... if one of those hits would have gotten through in game 57... the streak would be 83 games.  That's more than half a season.
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It's hard to tell right now as the numbers, to my knowledge, have yet to be released.\n\nNo, eh, eh, and yes.\n\nKip Wells has pitched a total of 44.1 innings over the past two seasons. Cardinals fans better hope management has a contingency plan, and that he's not getting a big chunk of cash that could go toward paying the salary of another starting pitcher out there.\n\nAdam Kennedy was asking 4 years and $20 million; no way to know yet if that's what the Cardinals gave him. Kennedy is overrated on defense and marginal offensively. But the alternatives just aren't appealing enough to offer protest. I would have recommended signing Ray Durham, even though he's asking for 2 years and is looking for more than Kennedy's $5 million per year. The pop he adds to a lineup is worth it. If I'm a Cards fan I'm happy the Marcus Giles trade talk came to naught, as his numbers have declined in each of the last three seasons. Ron Belliard is likely past his prime and getting fatter all the time. He's got more upside with the bat than Kennedy, but the possibility of his body and defense continuing to decline makes him a risk. He probably will get about $4 million a year from someone. In short, Kennedy's signing is okay, not great.\n\nMarrero...I'm assuming they aren't going to pay him much. If that's the case, it's worth taking a flyer on him, as long as you aren't relying on him to produce. Put him in Memphis and give him the call if he's looking good and the need is there. Cardinals fans should hope management has plans to add a legit bat to a corner OF spot.\n\nBennett...he's a backup catcher, a veteran, had his moments with the bat. Assuming they aren't paying him more than an aging backup should make, its a nice move, though it won't make a lot of difference to the team's success.
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Hey I'm a Tigers fan, so please don't ruin this for me.  lol.  The Tigers haven't made the playoffs since 1987 when I was 6 years old.  So even though we all know they are probably going to blow it at the end of the season, at least let us Tiger fans "pretend" that they will win the World Series this year.  I say that before every season, but perhaps this year I may actually be right.
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myself I think the deal about juicing has NEVER been proved. I mean come on people we are talking about a man that has played 20 years and has compiled some of the best stats EVER, and people want to trash everything he has done on whispers. Damn he started out on a crap team and lead it to be a contender. I think he has every god given right to be in the HOF. Look at some of the old timers in the hall... drunks, wife beaters, gamblers, I need not go on. I by far don't hate Barry and if most of the baseball public would get their heads out of their a$$es and get off the holier than thou seat they wouldn't either. Last I know he played in America ... ya know innocent until PROVEN guilty, and I don't mean people trying to make a quick buck with "tell all" books. Just my thoughts.....
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Stoneman is stoned.\n\nSeriously, THAT is their answer?  Man Ram better be coming, because they're giving that chump $50 million?!\n\nHe's been on WAIVERS half a dozen times.  \n\nAt least the Dodgers got a guy who is 29 and hits .300 for that kind of money.  Hell, Matthews is a decent fielder, but hitting .247, how does that help?\n\nI love the Halos, but what the hell is that?  I'd rather they bring up a rookie than some washed up reject from Texas.\n\nI'm with you.  I don't get it.
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John pitched for the Braves when he made thos racist remarks and his career went down hill from that point on.  He was traded to Cleveland, but that didn't last long.  He also had unsucessful stints with Texas and Tampa Bay and finished his MLB career in 2003.\n\nHe took the 2004 season off to recover from surgery on his left shoulder. In 2005, he signed with the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League in an attempt to revive his career. \n\nIn April 2005, he asked New Yorkers to "bury the hatchet", claiming his willingness to play in Long Island proved he had matured since his controversial comments.\n\nHowever, after going 0-2 with a 6.50 ERA in 23 games, he was released on June 27, 2005. Through a statement released by the team said, "After pitching for two months with the Long Island Ducks, the consistency required to pitch at the major league level, and the consistency I demand from myself, are not where they should be... I have elected to take a step back and re-evaluate the options available to me."\n\nIn 2006, Rocker appeared on the Spike TV network's Pros vs. Joes, a program that pits retired professional athletes against amateurs. In March 2006, Rocker made tabloid headlines by being seen around town with African American sports writer and fitness model Alicia Marie who covered a Pros vs. Joes event where she interviewed Rocker for WideWebofSports.com.\n\nHe now sells SPEAK ENGLISH shirts on his website, http://www.johnrocker.net/
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welli am a die hard brewers fan \ni followed him in spring training\ntherehe injured his finger this story did not break out because he played through it \nbut this year it is really affecting his command \ne-mail me for more
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Pretty bad Job? Who the heck else was there? Carpenter? he was not as impressive as his year he won the cy young, and was never dominant and the Cy Young should be Dominant. Zambrano was dominant, but tailed off badly towards end of year. Hoffman was a joke, i dont care what his numbers say, i saw 3 seperate savesthat he blew in spectacular fashion by giving up Home runs to opposing batters, in one game against the dodgers he gave up back to back shots lol, Rivera has never won a Cy young, so theres no way on gods green earth Hoffman deserves one this year or any other year he's had. Glavine was very good, but again, not dominant. and Billy Wagner, gimme a break. Webb wasnt dominant either, but he really did seem to be the best  in the NL in a year where pitching was down in BOTH leagues. it was REALLY slim pickings this year in NL and AL.. Webb was a stretch, but if you look at the numbers, he really was the most consistent of what was out there over entire year\n\nI_love_\n\nThats Bull! sticking around long enough to become all time saves leader speaks to nothing more than longevity. The guy hoffman took that record from was Lee Smith. Is Lee Smith because he had that record the best reliever ever? if you say yes, then youre clueless. smith got that saves record for same reason Hoffman got it, they were around for so long ad averaged 30 plus saves a year. I dont question whether Hoffman has had a year he deserved the Cy young, in 98 he could have gotten it, but even then he Blew the biggest save of his Life to that point.. and then DESPITE his numbers, i watched him have sum of the most horrific blown saves i have ever seen, IN THIS YEAR ALONE` 4 come to mind!!  Hoffman hasnt been a dominant pitcher in a looong time and he didnt deserve it this year.. Webb got it by default because there was noone else ...maybe Carpenter, but thats it. \n\n\nAnd as for Rivera, he should have won in in 2005 , he was best pitcher in the AL, but AGAIN! the writers and their bs about giving the CY Young to a Reliever give it to Bartolo Colon ONLY because he won 20 games, with a near 4 era. im use to Relievers getting screwed for the Cy Young award. in NL and AL.. but Ive seen Hoffman in more big games than any hoffman fan wants to admit, gag like a mutt giving up HRs, not singles, or humpback liners, HOME RUNS!. Hoffman has ZERO argument
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This question piqued my interest, but I was unable to find an answer.  You've probably found everything I did, but below are some related links.\n\n\nI did find this.  I'm not sure if it is up to date.  \n\nPacific Coast League Historical Society\nRichard Beverage, President\n420 Robinson Circle\nPlacentia, CA 92870\nEmail: rbeverage at aol.com \n\nSupposedly they meet 3 times a year.  \n\nIf you are on the West Coast, a good library might have access to any of several books about the history of the PCL.  There is also a relatively new history of baseball in California published by the Univ. of California which is in better bookstores, "The Golden Game."  It was also suggested that you miught be able to get info from the sports department of the San Francisco newspapers.
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I would miss Manny a great deal.  It looks like they are leaning toward signing J.D. Drew for about $15 million a year.  Drew would play right and they would put Willy Mo in left.  But I just don't get it.  Drew gets hurt too much for that kind of money and Manny is well worth the extra cash for the next 2 years ($18 next year and $20 in 2008).  The only thing I can hope for is that they get a couple of great prospects or someone like Jake Peavey in return.  Then it might be worth it.  But I still do not see anyone protecting Big Papi in the line up unless they do get the prospects and turn around and trade them for a big bat (Andruw Jones?).  That would make it interesting.