Was Joe Kennedy ever drafted by the Angels baseball team?
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Officially, he was draft in 1998 - 8th round by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.  And he never played for Angels in MLB.
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I think you are asking about James Hymie Solomon, a.k.a. Jimmie Reese,who is buried in the Westwood Cemetery in Los Angeles. He had a distinguished career in baseball.\n\nJews have been a part of major league baseball since men like Lipman Pike and Levi Samuel Meyerle played in the nineteenth century. For many years, ethnicity was fair game for journalists and players. If a ballplayer was Jewish or Italian, it was especially noted. But as the atrocities of World War II came to light and Jewish and Italian ballplayers such as Hank Greenberg and Joe DiMaggio served their country in World War II, they were no longer perceived as Jewish or Italian players but as genuine American heroes. This ethnic stereotyping waned except for the initial integration of black baseball players.\n\nThere have been relatively few Jewish ballplayers in the major leagues. The count is not fully known because many Jewish ballplayers, especially in the early years, changed their names to hide their Judaism. The Jewish World Review, in an article dated November 15, 2002, said there have been 140 Jewish major leaguers. For those who hid their true identities, the most obvious reason was that they wished to avoid anti-Semitism. It was not until Greenberg became an established star and a war veteran that anti-Semitism became less of a factor in major league baseball and most Jewish players ceased to hide their identities. Vestiges of anti-Semitism, however, still remain.\n\nOne who changed his name was Hymie Solomon, who spent a long career in baseball under the assumed name of Jimmie Reese. Reese was a baseball lifer, and his longevity deserves recognition. When Reese died in 1994, at the age of 92, he was still a coach for the California Angels. His death ended 77 years in baseball.\n\nJames Herman Solomon was born on October 1, 1901, in New York City but was raised in Los Angeles. At the age of 12 he was a batboy for the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League. For six years he held the batboy job except for a one-year stint in the U.S. Navy in 1918, where he was a mascot for a Navy team that included Lefty O'Doul, Bob Meusel, and Howard Ehmke. Concluding his batboy career in 1923, Reese started his playing career in 1924 as a second baseman for the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League. In 1925 he played 136 games at shortstop and second base, batting .248. Jimmie became the Oaks' regular second baseman in 1926, pairing with Lyn Lary as a double play combination; they became known as "The Gold Dust Twins." In 1927, Reese batted .295 in 191 games and led the PCL in fielding for second basemen (.984) as the Oaks won their first pennant in 15 years.\n\nDuring the 1928 season the New York Yankees purchased Reese and Lary's contracts from the Oaks for $125,000, a substantial sum at the time. Lary was called up in 1929 and Reese in 1930. Before that, Reese had his best year for the Oaks in 1929, batting .337 with one homer, 65 runs batted in, and 24 stolen bases, while leading all second basemen in the PCL with a .979 fielding average and 622 putouts in 190 games.\n\nFinally brought up by the Yanks in 1930, Reese played 48 games at second base and five games at third that season. Pinch hitting appearances raised his total number of games to 77. He batted .346 with 65 hits, driving in 18 runs with 14 doubles and 3 homers. In 1931, Reese tailed off, batting .241, with 3 homers and 26 runs batted in 65 games. In 1932, the Yanks sent him to St. Paul of the American Association and he was quickly picked up by the St. Louis Cardinals to fill in for the injured Frankie Frisch. In 90 games with the Cardinals, Reese batted .265, with 82 hits in 309 at-bats, hitting 2 homers and driving in 26 runs. That was it for Reese's major league career; in all, he played in 232 games, batting a respectable .278 with 8 homers and 70 runs batted in 742 official at-bats.\n\nThe Los Angeles Angels purchased Reese's contract from the Cardinals i
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Jim "Catfish" Hunter was made a free agent when Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley did not make payments for an insurance policy that was written into Hunter's contract.  That made it a breach-of-contract and Hunter then became a free agent when his contract was voided.\n\nKen Harrelson was cut in mid-season 1967, again by Charlie Finley of the then Kansas City A's.  Harrelson made Finley mad so he cut him.  Harrelson signed with the Boston Red Sox in their 1967 Miracle season going to the World Series with them.  He basically replaced Tony Conigliaro after he was hit in the eye by a pitch.\n\nTommy Heinrich was made a free agent because his contract was voided as illegal by Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis.  The New York Yankees offered the best deal so Heinrich signed with them.\n\nThe current free agency is when a player lets his contract expire and signs with a new team for the next season.  The first two players to play out the option were Andy Messersmith of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Dave McNally of the Montreal Expos.  It was called playing out the option because the players were help by the teams forever until released; the teams maintained an "option" on all players and kept them until they were released.\nOnly Messersmith actually took a chance with his career as McNally was already injured and planning on retiring however the lawsuit turned out.\n\nWhen Messersmith and McNally won the lawsuit to stop the teams from keeping them forever and ever until released, the teams set up a free agent re-entry draft.  A team had to draft a player, making it known to all teams that they were interested in signing the free agent player.  That rule has since fallen away, any team can sign any free agent at any time.\n\nWhen the free agency started it hurt the Oakland A's the most; Charlie Finley was well known for not paying well and generally treating his players poorly.  After winning the division 5 consiecutive years from 1971 to 1975, and winning 3 consecutive World Series from 1972 to 1974, they lost Gene Tenace, Bert Campanaris, Sal Bando, Joe Rudi, Rollie Fingers as well as Catfish Hunter to free agency.  The A's also had to trade Reggie Jackson, Vida Blue, and Ken Holtzman once Finley realized he was going to lose the players anyways.\n\n\nEdit- Curt Flood tried to become a free agent.  He went all the way to the Supreme Court but he lost.  He did not want to be traded to the Philadelphia Phillies and refused to report.  Even though he refused to report, the Phillies kept the rights to his contract; later trading his rights to the Washington Senators.  He played for the Washington Senators for a short time, ending his career in 1971 after sitting out the 1970 season protesting.\n\nBottom Line- Curt Flood was never a Major League free agent, first, last  or otherwise.  See the link below for the list of transactions for Curt Flood.\n\nThe first players that played out their options and became free agents were Andy Messersmith who moved from the Los Angeles Dodgers to the Atlanta Braves and Dave McNally who retired rather than signing with a new team.
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Canseco got what he had coming. I used to be a big fan of his. I am from Cincinnati but I rooted for the A's in the 90 world series against the Reds because I liked Canseco, McGuire, Dave Stewart and others so much but I fell out of favor with those guys. I would never deny a 12 year old kid my autograph. Jose is a dick and that's why he's poor and has to scrum off of his brother Ozzie now, even though he's broke too!!
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He was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 1974 amateur entry draft
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It had to be the Griffeys, right?\n\nKen, Sr. and Junior played in the same outfield for the Seattle Mariners.
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Mark Patrick Sweeney\n\nBorn 10/26/69 in Framingham Ma\n\nDrafted by the Cal Angels in 1991\n\nMade major league debut 8/4/95 for St Louis Cardinals\n\nHas played for the Padres, Brewers, Rockies, Cards & Reds\n\nHas always been a part itme player and has almost as many strikeouts as hits\n\n355 hits- 318 strikeouts
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Baseball America's Top 100 prospects of 2006 is the most reliable source ranking the top prospects. The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Anaheim Angels have the most prospects according to this list. To say kendrick, wood, and morales are all in the top five is absolutely absurd because aside from wood, the other two are not even near the top. The Los Angeles Dodgers in my opinion have the greatest pool of young talent because they are loaded at every single position with major league ready prospects that are capable of becoming the future starter of this renouned organization. Russel Martin and Dioner Navarro at catcher, James Loney, Joel Guzman and Cory Dunlap at first base, Tony Abreu, Willy Aybar and Delwyn Young at second, Chin-Lung Hu and Ivan DeJesus Jr. at short, Andy LaRoche and Blake Dewitt at third, in the outfield you got Matt Kemp, Xavier Paul, and the dodger have an abundance of pitching prospects in the likes of Chad Billingsley, Justin Orenduff, Scott Elbert, Johnathan Broxton, Greg Miller, I probably missed a couple more but you get the picture.
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yes\nHe used to play 4 the Red Sox\nHe was actually pretty good.  For a minor leaguer
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Mets, O's, Seattle, Padres, Dodgers, Giants, Indians, White Sox, Tigers, Phillies, and the Angels are all teams that at some point have been rumoured to be intersted, and most of those are just not true.\n\nThe Angels, Dodgers, Padres, Seattle maybe, Indians? are the only realistic option\n\nMost of the above teams are either not interested or have nothing to offer. The Red Sox have a half decent farm system now, they are not interested in prospects, they want/need major league talent in return.\n\nI like the Angels or the Dodgers as the most likely. The Sox need bullpen help and a big bat. Angels can give pitching to get that bat, and the dodgers can give a bullpen arm, and a young power hitter.\n\nAngels seem to be backing off Rameriz however.\n\nEveryone in Boston likes the numbers Rameriz puts up, but its probably time he left, he hurts the clubhouse with the special treatment he requires, and if he wants out, you have to wonder how long he can keep producing good numbers in a city/environment he hates - its actually a credit to his work ethic and professionalism as a hitter he always hits 35+HR and 100+RBI a season, no matter what.
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I went to an Angels game about 15 years ago and got Dante Bichette's(Right Fielder) attention during pre-game warm ups.  I lied and told him that I was "Joe Mcintrye" from the New Kids on the Block.  He bought it and took me on the field, down into the dugout and in the locker room!  Here I am, a 16 year old frightened kid who is staring the likes of Brian Downing, Dave Winfield and Wally Joyner right in the face inside thier own locker room!  I actually saw Jim Abbott naked lying on the trainers table!  Dante even took me out after the game and bought me dinner at TGI Fridays.  I was scared shitless because if anyone found out, I would be in a heap of trouble!  At least I pulled it off and it is something I can tell my kids someday!
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The answer above is correct, but one interesting fact is that Jackie Robinson was actually traded to the New York Giants after the 1956 season and retired rather than report to them.  The Dodgers and Giants had a rivalry in those days that was much more heated than the rivalry between the West Coast Dodgers and Giants of today.  The idea of going to the Giants was so repellent to him that he gave up playing in the major leagues instead.
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Not on any professional level. He played baseball and football. Was drafted by the New York Yankees and the Atlanta Falcons.
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Hey there...I was at Game 2 of that series...Carlton pitched and it rocked!  Anyways...on to your question...\n\nJohn Denny comes to mind as do Steve Bedrosian and Kent Tekulve.  Pretty sure they were all free agent pickups. How about Mulholland (at least one of the times he played here)?  And, even though he really wasn't that good here, Billy Wagner.
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At this point the Angels should be sellers get something in return for guys that are no longer going to be on the team next year or for guys that don't really have a place on the team. They should consider putting on the trading block guys like Adam Kennedy, Juan Rivera, Brendan Donnelly, Jeff Weaver, maybe Bartolo Colon teams in contention would definitely be interested. They can perhaps get some top outfield prospects which is an area that the Angel farm system is lacking in or perhaps even get some pitching prospects. This move would clear up roster spots which will enable them to start playing some of the younger guys like Howie Kendrick this will get them ready for next season. Personally they shouldn't trade any of the younger guys like Santana for Crawford that one move isn't going to help them in the short term nor in the long run. Crawford is a good player but one player isn't going to fix all the problems which are defense and hitting. \n\nA possible buyer for Kennedy are the Blue Jays they are interested in him and are willing to trade Hillenbrand to get him.
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Shoeless Joe Jackson ,Picthers Eddie Cicotte and Claude "Lefty" Williams; infielders Buck Weaver, Arnold "Chick" Gandil, Fred McMullin, and Charles "Swede" Risberg; and outfielder Oscar "Happy" Felsch. I can't pick from the 8 listed as they were equally the worst players of all time IE The Chicago Black Sox team.
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56    Mark Buehrle  L/L 6-2 225 03/23/79  \n  52    Jose Contreras  R/R 6-4 245 12/06/71  \n  46    Neal Cotts  L/L 6-1 195 03/25/80  \n  34    Freddy Garcia  R/R 6-4 250 06/10/76  \n  20    Jon Garland  R/R 6-6 215 09/27/79  \n  45    Bobby Jenks  R/R 6-3 280 03/14/81  \n  55    Brandon McCarthy  R/R 6-7 195 07/07/83  \n  65    Agustin Montero  R/R 6-3 210 08/26/77  \n  37    Matt Thornton  L/L 6-6 235 09/15/76  \n  33    Javier Vazquez  R/R 6-2 215 07/25/76  \n  \nCatchers B/T Ht Wt DOB   \n  \n  12    A.J. Pierzynski  L/R 6-3 235 12/30/76  \n  36    Chris Widger  R/R 6-2 220 05/21/71  \n  \nInfielders B/T Ht Wt DOB   \n  \n    8    Alex Cintron  S/R 6-1 205 12/17/78  \n  24    Joe Crede  R/R 6-2 220 04/26/78  \n  17    Ross Gload  L/L 6-1 190 04/05/76  \n  15    Tadahito Iguchi  R/R 5-10 200 12/04/74  \n  14    Paul Konerko  R/R 6-2 220 03/05/76  \n  38    Pablo Ozuna  R/R 5-11 195 08/25/74  \n  25    Jim Thome  L/R 6-4 245 08/27/70  \n    5    Juan Uribe  R/R 6-0 220 03/22/79  \n  \nOutfielders B/T Ht Wt DOB   \n  \n  44    Brian Anderson  R/R 6-2 215 03/11/82  \n  23    Jermaine Dye  R/R 6-5 235 01/28/74  \n  10    Rob Mackowiak  L/R 6-0 200 06/20/76  \n  22    Scott Podsednik