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Van Lingle Mungo

Musical birthday greetings: Van Lingle Mungo (plus a selected short)

June 8, 2011

Van Lingle Mungo, born 100 years ago today,  pitched for 14 seasons (1931-43,1945) for the Brooklyn Dodgers and NY Giants. While he wasn’t a superstar, he did win 120 games, including four seasons of 16 or more victories. Somewhere I have a paper I delivered, deconstructing the out the Dave Frishberg song about players from […]

Tagged as: Dave Frishberg, Eddie Gaedel, Van Lingle Mungo

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Birthday greetings, June 8

June 8, 2010

To Van Lingle Mungo, made famous in a song by Dave Frishberg: And to Eddie Gaedel, because he could probably fit on a bookshelf.

Tagged as: Eddie Gaedel, Van Lingle Mungo

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