Lest we forget: Ed Stevens

July 27, 2012

Probably only a few die-hard Dodger fans or baseball historians remember, but Ed Stevens was the man Jackie Robinson replaced when he joined Brooklyn in 1947. I think it’s kind of sad that that is how a person is remembered (Wally Pipp), but at least he is remembered

As the New York Times‘ obituary by Richard Goldstein notes, Stevens, who died July 22 at the age of 87,  never regained his position at first base — which he already split with Howie Schultz — after Robinson’s arrival. But he was sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates, where he played one season as a starter in 1948 before being relegated to utility service until he left the Majors in 1950 at the age of 25.

Stevens published his memoir, The Other Side of the Jackie Robinson Story, in 2010.

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