Posted By:
Frank WakefieldI got this email from Mark Macrea this morning...
Frank,
Rosy Carlisle, 1911 Vernon Tigers....If need be, I can probably track down the date for you, but still waiting for the first cup of coffee to kick in this morning...
And he's correct!!!
Carlisle caught a line drive, diving and rolling as he caught it. The bases were loaded. He got up and ran to second, forcing that runner, then ran to first, forcing that one. Unassisted, even by today's rules.
Here's Carlisle's Zee-Nut card, and under that is a newpaper drawing about it all. This is from a really neat book, The Story of Minor League Baseball, a 1953 book, over 700 pages, and well indexed.
