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Tuesday, 3 October 2017

Dunn Deal: Part of the charm playing on the independent professional baseball team was its unique ownership group

Source: www.ocregister.com --- Monday, October 02, 2017
As the Major League Baseball postseason begins after a year that will be remembered for home runs and winning streaks, it bears to mind the greatest winning streak in professional Baseball history – 29 in a row by the 1987 Salt Lake City Trappers. I played on the independent team the year before, and at the time of their record streak I was working in the sports department for a local newspaper, and recall colleagues updating me upon my newsroom arrival from covering an event. “Hey, Rich, Trappers won again!” I’d hear when the streak began gaining national attention, about the time they were edging closer to the New York Giants’ MLB record of 26 straight games without a loss in 1916. (The Cleveland Indians’ 22-game win streak this year broke the mark for the longest without a tie.) But it’s not John McGraw’s formidable Giants with Christy Mathewson or the 2017 Indians with the longest win streak in pro Baseball, a distinction belonging to the unsung Trappers, a band of misfit players who were dropped from other organizations or never drafted and signed as free agents. While I might have played on the Trappers a year too early and otherwise join the ’87 squad in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., it was an honor and a privilege to play for the organization, which was owned by a group of investors that included current Angels owner Artie Moreno and Hollywood actor Bill Murray. I wore No. 28 and Murray No. 29. ...



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