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YankeeLinks
02-13-2002, 10:54 PM
Name 2 players who have pinch-homered in both games of a doubleheader?
LeGrandOrange
02-14-2002, 02:12 AM
I have no idea, so I'll answer with a pair of Johnny's, Johnny Frederick and the greatest 3rd catcher ever, Johnny Blanchard.
Xanadu Dragon
02-14-2002, 07:06 AM
Cliff Johnson?
KCBOOMER
02-14-2002, 10:14 AM
George Crowe?
YankeeLinks
02-14-2002, 12:37 PM
None are correct
LeGrandOrange
02-14-2002, 01:47 PM
Let's go modern...Dave Hansen and Craig A. Wilson?
YankeeLinks
02-14-2002, 02:03 PM
No, LGO

One did it in the 30's. He's in the HOF

The other guy did it in the 70's
LeGrandOrange
02-14-2002, 02:05 PM
I'll answer my namesake for the 70's one. :)
SmedIndy
02-14-2002, 02:19 PM
Didn't Babe Ruth pull a stunt like this playing for Boston?

Or am I thinking of something else.
YankeeLinks
02-14-2002, 03:06 PM
Neither Rusty nor Ruth
Xanadu Dragon
02-14-2002, 03:15 PM
Johnny Mize?
YankeeLinks
02-14-2002, 03:19 PM
Not the Big Cat
SmedIndy
02-14-2002, 04:16 PM
I'll say Schnozz in the 30's and Bill Robinson in the 70's?
YankeeLinks
02-14-2002, 04:21 PM
Neither of them
Strohs
02-14-2002, 05:29 PM
Is Joe Cronin one?
KCBOOMER
02-14-2002, 05:38 PM
Hack Wilson???
YankeeLinks
02-14-2002, 08:36 PM
Yes, Cronin is the first
YankeeLinks
02-14-2002, 08:43 PM
The second guy is pretty obscure. He played 5 seasons (or parts)in the early 70's and had a total of fewer than 700 AB. But on my mother's birthday in 1973, he had two pinch hit homers, and he became only the second player to do so.
YankeeLinks
02-14-2002, 10:52 PM
He played in the NL for a team whose logo is used as an avatar by one of the frequent posters to this forum
BBapplepie
02-14-2002, 11:02 PM
Would one be the kid from James Monroe HS in NY.
BBapplepie
02-14-2002, 11:36 PM
No it can't be Krane, a wild guess Hal King?
LeGrandOrange
02-14-2002, 11:37 PM
It would be Hal Breeden, actually.
BBapplepie
02-14-2002, 11:43 PM
Yeah that the guy I was thinking of, not King but Breeden.
YankeeLinks
02-14-2002, 11:59 PM
Breeden is correct. On July 13, 1973 he pinch homered in both ends of a double header. Nice going