Kurt Bevacqua


	Kurt Bevacqua is a winner.

Career stats: Baseball-Reference.com
Career biography: The Ballplayers
In the show: Cleveland (1971-72), Royals (1973), Pirates (1974), Royals (1974), Brewers (1975-76), Rangers (1977-78), Padres (1979-80), Pirates (1980-81), Padres (1982-85).

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Hit home run in Padres only World Series win (1984: Game 2)

Joe Garagiola/Bazooka Bubble Gum Blowing Champ (1975)

Led league in pinch hits and pinch at-bats (1980)

Incited tirade from Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda (1984)

Ringer for Hank Hill's Strickland Propane softball team ("King of the Hill," 200?)

Ray Robinson's 12 Greatest Stentors* of All Time
*Loud mouths, or as they used to call them, bench jockeys.

Robinson ... a baseball typewriter jockey over the years ... asks the question: "Whatever happened to that noble breed, the baseball bench jockey ? those barbers, ribbers, baiters, needlers and joshers ? who used to assail the enemy with thousands of uncomplimentary comments? Well, the strident hooligans of yesteryear seemed to have turned into bevested businessmen-players of today. Pure and simple, they ain't what they used to be. If bench jockey is, for the most part, extinct, then one of the fine arts, like illuminating manuscripts, has headed for the drain."

 1. Billy Martin
 2. Earl Weaver
 3. Bill Rigney
 4. Kurt Bevacqua
 5. Leo Durocher
 6. Eddie Stanky
 7. Jimmy Dykes
 8. Frankie Frisch
 9. Lefty Gomez
10. Whitey Ford
11. John McGraw
12. Dizzy Dean

This list was reprinted from The Baseball Book of Lists by Phil Pepe and Zander Hollander, 1983.

The Kurt Bevacqua Library

Believe it or not, Dunston not worst DH ever -- Rob Neyer, ESPN.com (Oct. 20, 2002)

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