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Indeed, Vern Stephens is the Forgotten Man of Baseball, not only in this city, where he first etched his athletic legacy in the late 1930s at Poly High, but also even in Boston, where during one ...
are finalists for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and the list includes former St. Louis Browns shortstop and All-Star Vern Stephens. On Monday, Cooperstown announced the list ...
388, which is a little unusual, especially in the modern game of Arena Baseball that is played ... 307. Shortstop: Vern Stephens Shortstop Vern Stephens joined the Red Sox from the St.Louis ...
So Vern (“Meat”) Stephens packed off to see the nice man in Mexico City who said things like: “Bah! What is money? I have forty, fifty, sixty million. . . .” U.S. baseball magnates ...
1953 — The White Sox loaded the bases against the Yankees in the ninth inning, but Vern Stephens, who had 10 grand slams in his career, was lifted for a pinch hitter. Pitcher Tommy Byrne ...
They are the first to achieve the feat since Ted Williams and Vern Stephens did so with the Boston Red Sox in August 1949. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig are the only other duo to hit both benchmarks ...