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A nother player we lost in 2025 with an amazing name is former Minnesota Twins & Toronto Blue Jays outflelder Hosken Powell. What a name! Powell was another player who came and went after a few seasons in the big leagues. Making his debut in 1978, he kicked around for six seasons and was an average player. His best season was his rookie year with 1.2 WAR, but statistically, it was likely his second season where he hit .293. I remember him mostly from his name and his 1980 Top

A lthough he only spent parts of three seasons in the big leagues, I clearly remember Horace Speed, who we lost in 2025. Why do I remember him? Quite simply, his name. What a great baseball name he had! Speed spent 17 games with the Giants and parts of two seasons with the Indians. He didn't hit well and despite his name, he didn't have much success stealing bases, finishing with four stolen bases in nine attempts. He ended up with a .207 batting average with zero homeruns. B

W e continue to remember former major leaguers who passed in 2025 with 13 year major league player and 17 season manager Davey Johnson. Whether you loved him or hated him, you knew who Davey Johnson was. Johnson started his career in 1965 in Baltimore and spent eight seasons playing for the Orioles. He was solid but wasn't overly exciting while playing there. After the 1972 season, Johnson found himself in the middle of six player deal that sent him to Atlanta where he would

D iego Segui did something that nobody has done before and will ever do again in major league baseball. He was a member of both Seattle franchises, the Pilots & the Mariners. That is a trivia question that is very popular in baseball discussions. Segui's son also played baseball, former Orioles 1st baseman David Segui. He played for the Orioles during my time in college so I saw him play often. David was a nice little player who played for a long time just like his father. Di

W e continue to honor former major leaguers who passed in 2025 with the brother of Tennis star Billie Jean King, former San Francisco Giants reliever Randy Moffitt. Moffitt was solid but unspectacular for 10 years in San Francisco before quick stops in Houston and Toronto. He would team up with Gary Lavelle & Greg "Moon Man" Minton to form a solid bullpen for the Giants in the late 70s. I remember him mainly as the brother of Billie Jean King. She was a huge deal in sports in

C het Lemon's career was right at the sweet spot of my baseball obsession, 1975-1990. I started watching the gam around 1974-75 when I was very young and continued well into the 90s. He was buried on some bad White Sox teams in the 70s but escaped in time to be one of the World Champion Detroit Tigers in 1984, the year they started 35-5. Never a superstar, Lemon was Mr. Consistency. He averaged 18 homeruns & 72 RBI over his 16 year career and put together some excellent seaso

A nother player we lost this year was former Twins, Pilots, Brewers & Indians infielder Rich Rollins. Rollins spent the better part of the 60s as a Twins' infielder and put together a pretty nice career. Playing mostly 3rd base as a starter, he also played many other positions as needed to prolong his career. Originally drafted by the Senators, Rollins made his debut after the team moved to Minnesota. He would spend parts of eight seasons there before being drafted by the exp

C ontinuing our remembering of Major Leaguers we lost in 2025 is former Pirates and Red Sox hurler Bob Veale. He played mostly before my time, so I never saw him play. But I remember him well. Especially those glasses! Things you probably didn't know about Veale are he led the league in both walks and strikeouts in 1964 in a monster season where he went 18-12 with a 2.55 ERA. The two time All-Star had some pretty good seasons but his last few years in Boston were pretty forge

I 've mentioned many times on here that I was a big Milwaukee Brewers' fan in the 1970s and 1980s. While everyone knows about Robin Yount & Paul Molitor, not as many people remember Sixto Lezcano. This has little bearing on Carlos Lezcano, who passed away in 2025, but bear with me. I'll connect the dots. I was 11 when Carlos Lezcano made his major league debut. It was the coolest thing that another player had the same name as Sixto, who I would later find out was his cousin.

I was a huge baseball fan almost from birth. Pre-internet, it was tough to follow the game the way you can today but I did my best. When I got to college, I followed the Towson State baseball team pretty closely my freshman year. What I really didn't grasp was, the Athletic Director was a former major leaguer. I never met him but looking back, I should have. We lost Billy Hunter in 2025 at age 97. Having had a six year career with four different teams, Hunter didn't set the