A 78 year old player LOL

[molarmite]

Any word on his future yet?

[Qrusher14242]

oh i CEI'd him. He was 85 when we he retired. Never had it happen before. Maybe it was just a fluke.

[kreitena]

This doesn't seem so far-fetched.

http://sports.espn.go.com/minorlbb/n...ory?id=2516986

[PTBNL]

Change his nickname from Sliding Billy to Shuffling Billy.....

Oh yeah, Billy in his prime was an OB and base stealing machine as well as a sensational OF.

Heres how he soing for me so far http://www.legendsport.com/baseball/tap/site/p301.html

[lancevance]

Was he waiting to get enough time to get a pension?

[AZTarHeel]

Found this one on the AP wires this morning. Maybe the above-mentioned player is the game's version of this real-life gentleman:

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — John Jordan “Buck” O’Neil never got a free pass in life.

The grandson of a man brought to this continent a slave, O’Neil moved to Kansas City to avoid racial persecution in the Deep South. He played baseball during an era of segregation, and earlier this year was denied entry into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by a special 12-member panel.

It figures that on Tuesday night, when the 94-year-old O’Neil stepped into the batter’s box during a minor league All-Star game, nobody could quibble over an intentional walk.

Except maybe O’Neil and a few thousand fans.

“I just might take a swing at one,” he said before Tuesday night’s Northern League All-Star game.

Leading off for the West in the top of the first inning, O’Neil argued with the umpire after the first pitch from Kansas City T-Bones pitcher Jonathan Krysa sailed high and was called a ball. After another high pitch that narrowly missed his head, O’Neil took a called strike before being walked, as planned.

O’Neil ambled to first base, then took a lead off the bag as if he were going to stay in the game before being pulled for a pinch runner.

After the top of the inning, T-Bones owner John Ehlert announced that a trade had been brokered to bring O’Neil to the T-Bones, allowing him to also lead off the bottom of the inning.

In his second at-bat, O’Neil took three balls — all of them high and greeted with a chorus of boos from the crowd — before swinging at a pitch and almost spinning off his feet. Possibly lost in the novelty of the inning, the umpire gave him two more balls before sending him down to first base with his second walk of the night.

The T-Bones signed O’Neil to a one-day contract, making him the oldest man ever to play professional baseball. He surpassed 83-year-old Jim Eriotes

[molarmite]

I was just going to post that on here.