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Rockies (14-28) @ Padres (22-23)

First Pitch: 4:10 PM at Petco Park

Team	Starter	TV	Radio
Rockies	Austin Gomber (0-2, 3.43 ERA)	COLR	KOA
Padres	Michael King (3-3, 3.67 ERA)	SDPA	KWFN, XEMO (ES)

MLB	Fangraphs	Reddit Stream	IRC Chat
Gameday	Game Graph	Live Comments	Libera: ##baseball

Line Score - Game Over

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E	LOB
COL	0	3	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	8	12	0	6
SD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	7

Box Score

SD		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
LF	Profar, J	4	0	1	0	0	1	.322
RF	Tatis Jr.	1	0	0	0	2	1	.256
CF	Merrill	1	0	0	0	0	0	.288
1B	Cronenworth	4	0	0	0	0	1	.265
DH	Machado, M	4	0	0	0	0	3	.222
2B	Bogaerts	4	0	1	0	0	0	.213
3B	Solano	3	0	2	0	1	0	.462
C	Campusano	4	0	0	0	0	2	.267
SS	Kim, H	3	0	0	0	0	0	.204
SS	Wade	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250
RF	Azocar	2	0	0	0	1	1	.286

SD	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
King	5.1	8	6	6	2	7	89-60	4.31
Estrada	1.2	1	1	1	0	1	19-13	0.93
Brito	2.0	3	1	1	0	1	31-21	4.43

COL		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
DH	Blackmon	5	0	1	0	0	0	.237
SS	Tovar	4	0	1	0	0	1	.275
3B	McMahon	5	1	1	0	0	2	.304
3B	Trejo	0	0	0	0	0	0	.080
2B	Rodgers	5	0	0	0	0	2	.257
CF	Doyle, B	4	2	1	1	1	2	.281
RF	Cave	4	2	2	0	0	0	.245
C	Stallings	4	1	2	2	0	1	.320
1B	Montero, E	3	1	1	0	1	1	.227
LF	Beck	4	1	3	5	0	0	.235

COL	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Gomber	6.0	2	0	0	2	5	92-54	3.02
Lawrence, J	1.0	2	0	0	0	1	20-15	4.41
Mears	1.0	0	0	0	1	2	19-13	4.58
Lambert, P	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	16-8	7.30

Scoring Plays

Inning	Event	Score
T2	Brenton Doyle homers (5) on a fly ball to left center field.	0-1
T2	Jordan Beck doubles (2) on a ground ball to left fielder Jurickson Profar. Jake Cave scores. Elehuris Montero scores.	0-3
T3	Jacob Stallings singles on a line drive to left fielder Jurickson Profar. Ryan McMahon scores. Brenton Doyle scores.	0-5
T6	Jordan Beck homers (1) on a fly ball to left field. Jacob Stallings scores.	0-7
T8	Jordan Beck singles on a ground ball to left fielder Jurickson Profar. Jake Cave scores.	0-8

Highlights

Description	Length
Michael King against the Rockies	0:07
Austin Gomber against the Padres	0:11
Bullpen availability for San Diego, May 15 vs Rockies	0:07
Bullpen availability for Colorado, May 15 vs Padres	0:07
Bench availability for Colorado, May 15 vs Padres	0:07
Fielding alignment for Colorado, May 15 vs Padres	0:11
Fielding alignment for San Diego, May 15 vs Rockies	0:11
Bench availability for San Diego, May 15 vs Rockies	0:07
Starting lineups for Rockies at Padres - May 15, 2024	0:09
Brenton Doyle: Home Run Statcast Analysis	0:12
Brenton Doyle's home run through bat tracking data	0:11
The distance behind Jordan Beck's home run	0:13
Michael King's outing against the Rockies	0:23
Breaking down Michael King's pitches	0:04
Breaking down Austin Gomber's pitches	0:04
Austin Gomber's outing against the Padres	0:23
Brenton Doyle's solo home run (5)	0:25
Jordan Beck's two-run double	0:30
Jacob Stallings hits a two-run single	0:30
Jurickson Profar makes a lunging grab in left field	0:20
Jordan Beck's first MLB home run	0:32
Michael King strikes out seven Rockies	1:02
Austin Gomber's strong outing against the Padres	0:40
Jordan Beck's RBI single	0:13
Jackson Merrill's jumping catch in center field	0:29
Jordan Beck's big day against the Padres	1:23

Decisions

Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save
Gomber (1-2, 3.02 ERA)	King (3-4, 4.31 ERA)

Attendance	Weather	Wind
	63°F, Cloudy	9 mph, L To R

HP	1B	2B	3B
Mark Ripperger	Roberto Ortiz	Alfonso Márquez	Lance Barrett

Game ended at 6:36 PM.
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Hi everyone,
I have a baseball from the mid-90s (likely 1995) with two signatures I cannot identify. It's likely the autograph could be from a player on the 1995 Phillies or a team they played. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
https://preview.redd.it/zbtqbmsspl0d1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=288474fdcb6ee274e5672c3d7a2de791e6b34368

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Rockies (13-28) @ Padres (22-22)

First Pitch: 9:40 PM at Petco Park

Team	Starter	TV	Radio
Rockies	Cal Quantrill (2-3, 3.94 ERA)	COLR	KOA
Padres	Dylan Cease (5-2, 2.19 ERA)	SDPA	KWFN, XEMO (ES)

MLB	Fangraphs	Reddit Stream	IRC Chat
Gameday	Game Graph	Live Comments	Libera: ##baseball

Line Score - Game Over

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E	LOB
COL	0	0	0	1	0	4	1	0	0	6	10	0	5
SD	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	11	1	8

Box Score

SD		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
2B	Arraez	5	0	2	1	0	0	.303
RF	Tatis Jr.	4	0	2	0	1	0	.257
1B	Cronenworth	4	0	0	0	0	2	.272
3B	Machado, M	4	0	1	0	0	0	.228
LF	Profar, J	1	1	1	0	3	0	.324
DH	Bogaerts	4	0	1	0	0	1	.213
CF	Merrill	4	1	1	0	0	2	.290
C	Campusano	4	1	2	1	0	0	.275
SS	Kim, H	4	0	1	0	0	1	.208

SD	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Cease	5.2	5	3	3	1	8	98-64	2.45
Kolek	1.1	5	3	3	0	1	23-18	4.29
De Los Santos, E	1.1	0	0	0	0	3	19-14	3.24
Peralta, Wa	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	10-6	3.44

COL		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
DH	Blackmon	5	0	0	0	0	1	.238
SS	Tovar	5	2	2	1	0	1	.275
3B	McMahon	3	1	2	1	0	0	.308
C	Díaz, E	1	0	0	0	0	1	.299
C	Stallings	3	0	0	0	0	0	.304
2B	Rodgers	4	1	1	1	0	2	.267
CF	Doyle, B	4	1	1	0	0	2	.282
RF	Cave	4	1	1	1	0	2	.222
1B	Montero, E	3	0	2	1	1	1	.224
LF	Beck	4	0	1	1	0	3	.191

COL	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Quantrill	6.0	6	1	1	3	5	91-55	3.66
Vodnik	1.0	4	2	2	0	1	21-15	2.59
Mears	1.0	1	0	0	1	0	18-9	4.86
Kinley	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	15-9	8.44

Scoring Plays

Inning	Event	Score
T4	Ryan McMahon homers (6) on a fly ball to right center field.	0-1
T6	Brendan Rodgers singles on a ground ball to center fielder Jackson Merrill. Ezequiel Tovar scores.	0-2
T6	Jake Cave singles on a ground ball to right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. Brendan Rodgers scores. Brenton Doyle to 3rd. Jake Cave to 2nd.	0-3
T6	Elehuris Montero singles on a soft ground ball to pitcher Stephen Kolek. Brenton Doyle scores. Jake Cave to 3rd.	0-4
T6	Jordan Beck singles on a line drive to right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. Jake Cave scores. Elehuris Montero to 2nd.	0-5
T7	Ezequiel Tovar homers (5) on a fly ball to left field.	0-6
B7	Luis Campusano singles on a ground ball to center fielder Brenton Doyle. Jurickson Profar scores. Jackson Merrill to 3rd.	1-6
B7	Luis Arraez singles on a ground ball to right fielder Jake Cave. Jackson Merrill scores. Luis Campusano to 2nd.	2-6
B7	Jake Cronenworth lines out to right fielder Jake Cave.	3-6

Highlights

Description	Length
Dylan Cease against the Rockies	0:07
Bullpen availability for San Diego, May 14 vs Rockies	0:07
Bullpen availability for Colorado, May 14 vs Padres	0:07
Bench availability for Colorado, May 14 vs Padres	0:07
Fielding alignment for Colorado, May 14 vs Padres	0:11
Ryan McMahon: Home Run Statcast Analysis	0:12
An animated look at Ryan McMahon's home run	0:11
Breaking down Dylan Cease's pitches	0:04
Dylan Cease's outing against the Rockies	0:22
The distance behind Ezequiel Tovar's home run	0:13
Visualizing Ezequiel Tovar's swing using bat tracking technology	0:11
Cal Quantrill's outing against the Padres	0:23
Fernando Tatis Jr. singles in the 1st	0:13
Cal Quantrill escapes the 1st inning jam	0:12
Ryan McMahon's solo home run (6)	0:29
Jake Cave throws out Jurickson Profar at 2nd	0:30
Cal Quantrill strikes out Jackson Merrill	0:08
Brendan Rodgers' RBI single	0:15
Jake Cave's RBI single pads Rockies lead	0:16
Elehuris Montero's RBI single	0:30
Jordan Beck drops in an RBI single	0:14
Dylan Cease strikes out Jordan Beck	0:08
Ezequiel Tovar's solo home run (5)	0:28
Dylan Cease eight strikeout outing	1:34
Luis Campusano's RBI single	0:15
Luis Arraez's RBI single	0:14
Padres score on a wild pitch	0:30
Rockies score four runs in the top of the 6th	1:23
Cal Quantrill's solid outing	0:59
Fernando Tatis Jr. grounds out, shortstop Ezequiel Tovar to first baseman Elehuris Montero.	0:13

Decisions

Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save
Quantrill (3-3, 3.66 ERA)	Cease (5-3, 2.45 ERA)	Kinley (1 SV, 8.44 ERA)

Attendance	Weather	Wind
	62°F, Cloudy	9 mph, L To R

HP	1B	2B	3B
Lance Barrett	Mark Ripperger	Roberto Ortiz	Alfonso Márquez

Game ended at 12:22 AM.
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Hello fellow baseball fans! In full disclosure, I come to you as a Texas Rangers fan looking to visit your stadium for the first time. My nephew is turning 11 this year and I get the privilege of helping to plan his first trip to a MLB game and I want to make it as special as possible. Given that I live in Texas and don’t follow the Rays as closely, I have some questions I wondered if the group here could answer:
Are there any particular areas of the stadium that offer a unique view/experience that we should target for seating?
Has anyone taken one of the stadium tours and was it worthwhile?
Any tips on obtaining autographs? I am gifting him his first baseball card collection and I plan to include the top players from the Rays.
Any other advice you would offer to someone unfamiliar with going to see the Rays?
Any help you can offer to make this experience unforgettable will be much appreciated!

A friend who worked with the twins gave me these baseballs. Does it look legit? Should I also be worried about the way the autograph faded? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

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Rockies (12-28) @ Padres (22-21)

First Pitch: 9:40 PM at Petco Park

Team	Starter	TV	Radio
Rockies	Dakota Hudson (0-6, 6.35 ERA)	COLR	KOA
Padres	Randy Vásquez (0-1, 4.50 ERA)	SDPA	KWFN, XEMO (ES)

MLB	Fangraphs	Reddit Stream	IRC Chat
Gameday	Game Graph	Live Comments	Libera: ##baseball

Line Score - Game Over

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E	LOB
COL	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	5	9	0	5
SD	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	4	4	3	9

Box Score

SD		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
DH	Arraez	4	0	0	0	1	0	.301
RF	Tatis Jr.	4	0	0	0	1	1	.251
1B	Cronenworth	3	0	0	0	2	1	.279
3B	Machado, M	4	1	0	0	1	0	.227
LF	Profar, J	3	1	1	2	1	0	.320
2B	Bogaerts	4	1	1	1	0	2	.212
CF	Merrill	3	1	2	1	1	0	.291
C	Campusano	3	0	0	0	1	0	.268
SS	Kim, H	1	0	0	0	3	0	.207

SD	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Vásquez, R	3.2	8	5	5	1	0	73-46	6.32
Morejon	3.1	0	0	0	0	3	40-26	2.70
Estrada	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	13-9	0.00
Matsui	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	15-11	3.86

COL		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
DH	Blackmon	5	1	1	1	0	0	.248
SS	Tovar	4	0	2	1	0	1	.272
3B	McMahon	4	0	1	0	0	1	.301
C	Díaz, E	4	0	0	0	0	2	.301
2B	Rodgers	4	1	1	0	0	0	.267
CF	Doyle, B	3	1	0	0	1	1	.283
RF	Cave	4	1	1	0	0	1	.220
1B	Montero, E	4	1	2	3	0	0	.213
LF	Beck	4	0	1	0	0	0	.186

COL	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Hudson, Dak	5.2	3	3	3	3	3	83-49	6.13
Bird	0.1	1	1	1	2	0	17-7	5.79
Lawrence, J	2.0	0	0	0	3	1	37-18	4.70
Beeks	1.0	0	0	0	3	0	23-10	2.21

Scoring Plays

Inning	Event	Score
T2	Elehuris Montero singles on a ground ball to shortstop Ha-Seong Kim. Brenton Doyle scores.	0-1
B2	Xander Bogaerts homers (4) on a fly ball to left field.	1-1
T4	Elehuris Montero doubles (4) on a line drive to center fielder Jackson Merrill. Brendan Rodgers scores. Jake Cave scores. Elehuris Montero to 3rd. Elehuris Montero advances to 3rd, on a throwing error by shortstop Ha-Seong Kim.	1-3
T4	Charlie Blackmon singles on a line drive to right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. Elehuris Montero scores.	1-4
T4	Ezequiel Tovar singles on a fly ball to center fielder Jackson Merrill. Charlie Blackmon scores.	1-5
B6	Jurickson Profar homers (7) on a fly ball to right field. Manny Machado scores.	3-5
B7	Jackson Merrill homers (3) on a fly ball to right field.	4-5

Highlights

Description	Length
Dakota Hudson against the Padres	0:07
Bullpen availability for San Diego, May 13 vs Rockies	0:07
Bullpen availability for Colorado, May 13 vs Padres	0:07
Bench availability for Colorado, May 13 vs Padres	0:07
Fielding alignment for Colorado, May 13 vs Padres	0:11
Bench availability for San Diego, May 13 vs Rockies	0:07
Fielding alignment for San Diego, May 13 vs Rockies	0:11
Starting lineups for Rockies at Padres - May 13, 2024	0:09
The distance behind Xander Bogaerts' home run	0:13
Breaking down Randy Vásquez's pitches	0:04
Breaking down Dakota Hudson's pitches	0:04
Jurickson Profar: Home Run Statcast Analysis	0:13
Dakota Hudson's outing against the Padres	0:25
Breaking down Jackson Merrill's home run	0:13
A deep dive into Jackson Merrill's home run	0:11
Elehuris Montero's RBI single	0:18
Xander Bogaerts' solo home run (4)	0:29
Elehuris Montero's two-run double	0:28
Charlie Blackmon's RBI single	0:12
Ezequiel Tovar's RBI single	0:21
Jurickson Profar's two-run home run (7)	0:30
Jackson Merrill's solo home run (3)	0:29
Justin Lawrence escapes a bases loaded jam	0:13
Jake Cronenworth slides back safely into second	0:27
Jake Cave's sensational diving catch	0:27
Jalen Beeks induces a double play to secure the win	0:15

Decisions

Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save
Hudson, Dak (1-6, 6.13 ERA)	Vásquez, R (0-2, 6.32 ERA)	Beeks (4 SV, 2.21 ERA)

Attendance	Weather	Wind
	62°F, Partly Cloudy	9 mph, L To R

HP	1B	2B	3B
Alfonso Márquez	Lance Barrett	Mark Ripperger	Roberto Ortiz

Game ended at 12:28 AM.
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Anybody recognize this signature? I picked it up from a garage sale and have no idea when it’s from.

Source / full list: https://stathead.com/tiny/YjN1F

Rk	Player	H	SB	Date	Age
1	Jackson Merrill	3	2	2024-05-12	21-023
2	Roberto Alomar	3	3	1989-08-23	21-199
3	Joey Cora	3	2	1987-04-14	21-335
4	Roberto Alomar	3	2	1990-06-24	22-139
5	Everth Cabrera	3	2	2009-07-28	22-253
6	Jerry Turner	3	2	1976-10-03	22-260
7	Ozzie Smith	3	2	1978-04-26	23-121
8	Josh Barfield	3	2	2006-04-21	23-125
9	Ozzie Smith	4	2	1978-06-30	23-186
10	Ozzie Smith	4	2	1978-07-31	23-217

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"I played major league baseball for parts of 10 years, and I played in the magnificent city of New York, and as a child in St. Croix that was beyond dreams. Yes, I am a happy man." -- Horace Clarke
The worst stretch of Yankee baseball since the Highlander days, the mid 60s to the mid 70s, is remembered by those who lived through it as the Horace Clarke Era. Unfairly or not, the bespectacled switch-hitting middle infielder from the U.S. Virgin Islands came to symbolize all that was wrong with the Yankees in those sad years.
Horace Meredith Clarke grew up on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He was just the fifth player from the U.S. Virgin Islands to play in the majors, and the first Yankee. His father had grown up playing cricket, and because there were no youth baseball leagues on the island, young Horace played softball. He said he didn't see his first baseball game until around age 13, when he saw some U.S. Navy sailors playing.

“We were poor kids in St. Croix. We played on a field which was right on the ocean and had no fences. We couldn’t afford baseballs. So the coach made the lefthanded batters hit righthanded and the righthanded batters hit lefthanded. This was so they couldn’t hit the ball so far. It saved us from losing the baseballs in the ocean.”

Clarke was spotted by a Yankee scout in the Caribbean and assigned to the lowest run of the Yankee farm system -- the Kearney Yankees in Class D ball. Imagine being an 18-year-old kid from St. Croix in the Caribbean, and arriving in Kearney, Nebraska in the spring of 1958. The culture shock must have been overwhelming. Maybe not surprisingly, Clarke hit a disappointing .225/.322/.283 in 187 at-bats. He said the biggest adjustment wasn't the cold weather, but night games played under the lights, something he'd never done before.
The following year Horace was in the Florida State League, and he thrived in the warmer weather, hitting .293/.375/.366 in 571 at-bats. He also stole 34 bases that year. The year after that, he was back up north, playing for Fargo in the Northern League, and hit .307/.389/.369 in 537 at-bats. The following year was Amarillo in the Texas League, where he hit .300/.364/.429.
Then the next three years in the International League, where he hit .281/.345/.352 in 1,494 at-bats while playing shortstop and second base.
But despite Clarke's promise, he was blocked by Bobby Richardson. By the time Clarke had reached Triple-A at age 24 in 1963, the 27-year-old Richardson had already been a four-time All-Star, a two-time Gold Glove winner, and had won three World Series rings... plus the MVP for the 1960 World Series, the only time in baseball history a player for the losing team won the award!
But the Yankees knew Richardson was planning on retiring, so they kept Clarke waiting in the wings. He opened the year with the Toledo Mud Hens, then the Yankees' Triple-A team, and then after a month he finally got the call to the show.
Fifty-nine years ago today, on May 13, 1965, Clarke was sent up to the plate in the 7th inning as a pinch hitter to make his major league debut in a game the Yankees were losing, 4-1, to the Boston Red Sox in Fenway Park.
Clarke, facing Dave Morehead, beat out an infield single. It was a promising beginning. But, as if scripted to be symbolic of his career, Clarke's success was short-lived as the next batter bounced into a fielder's choice. Forced out at second base, Clarke watched the rest of the game from the dugout. The next day he'd get the start and go 0-for-4.
Hitting .250/.298/.269 at the end of June as a utility infielder, Clarke was sent back down to Toledo for two months to get more regular playing time. It helped. When he returned on September 3 -- coincidentally, also against the Red Sox -- he went 3-for-5 with an RBI. Overall that month, Clarke hit .273/.298/.327, and for the season, .262/.298/.299 in 115 plate appearances. But the Yankees, the reigning A.L. champions for the past five seasons, finished a shocking 77-85, all the way in sixth place.
That off-season, Phil Linz -- the harmonica playing utility infielder -- was traded to the Phillies, opening up a roster spot for Clarke. Richardson, though only 31, had told the Yankees he would retire at the end of the 1966 season, and the Yankees wanted him to mentor Clarke as his successor.
Clarke started just seven games over the first half, but a series of injuries forced him into regular service. Over the second half, he played almost every day, hitting .276/.334/.404 in 300 plate appearances. He was mostly used at shortstop, where his defense wasn't great, but in 16 games at second base he looked good enough that the Yankees were confident he could be a regular there. Yankee fans were no doubt a little sad when Richardson officially announced to the press on August 31 that it was his last season, but at least we knew who would be playing second base the following year.
Indeed, second base was the least of the Yankees' problems. New York finished dead last at 70-89 in 1966, the team's worst performance since 1925, as injuries fell Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Elston Howard, and Whitey Ford.
Entering 1967 as the starting second baseman, Clarke hit a solid .272/.321/.316 (94 OPS+) in 633 plate appearances while leading the league in fielding percentage, assists, and range factor as a second baseman. He also stole 21 bases in 25 tries, a second-best .840 SB%. His 3.7 bWAR that year was better than any season Richardson ever had -- his career high was 3.2 bWAR in 1962.
The following year, the Yankees finished 83-79 -- above .500 for the first time in four seasons -- but a whopping 34.5 games out. Clarke had one of the worst years of his career, hitting .230/.258/.254 (60 OPS+) as he played through injuries all year.
He rebounded in 1969 to .285/.339/.467 (101 OPS+), with 33 stolen bases. It was, statistically, the best season of his career (3.9 bWAR). But once again the Yankees were terrible -- 28.5 games out.
In 1970, Clarke again disappointed, hitting .251/.286/.309 (68 OPS+). The Yankees won 93 games that year, but it amounted to naught as the Orioles ran away with the pennant, going 108-54 to win it by 15 games. In fact, it was pretty much over by July, with the Yankees 7 games out at the All-Star break.
It was around this time that Yankee fans began focusing their frustration on Clarke. One New York sportswriter routinely referred to him as "Horrible Horace". Miscast as a leadoff man -- he had a career .308 OBP -- and criticized for "bailing out" on double plays, manager Ralph Houk years later offered a tepid defense of his second baseman:

“I know I got a lot of criticism for playing Horace Clarke as much as I did, but he was a lot better ballplayer than anyone gave him credit for. He did a lot of things good but nothing great, and that was his problem. Besides, I didn’t have anyone else.”

The lack of a replacement was certainly an issue. In 1971, there was talk in The Sporting News about a prospect named Fred Frazier being the heir apparent to Clarke at second base. That year, Frazier hit a disappointing .261/.316/.313 in Triple-A; the next year, .216/.302/.281. The year after that, he was in the Orioles organization. He never made it out of the minors.
In fact, Clarke was the only constant in the Yankee infield in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Yankees during the, ahem, Horace Clarke Era had holes everywhere, with a revolving door at first base, third base, and shortstop. For five years, from 1967 to 1971, Clarke was the Opening Day starter at second base; during that same stretch, there were five different third basemen, five different third basemen, and three different shortstops. Between 1967 and 1973, he started 1,017 games at second base, or 90% of all Yankee games.
But that, explained Yankees PR man Marty Appel, was kind of the problem. "Fans especially didn’t like the second baseman, the beleaguered Horace Clarke, whose major flaw seemed to be longevity. It wasn’t his fault that no one better came along, and he was a better player than the fans gave him credit for. But because he was out there, year after year, he came to stand for this disappointing run by the club."

"I always did my best. I always played as hard as I could. I never was concerned about how the fans reacted to me." -- Horace Clarke

The following year Clarke hit .250/.321/.318 in 696 plate appearances, but the Yankees again were out of it, finishing 82-80 in 1971.
Yankee fans had been miserable since 1965, but frustration with the team in general -- and Clarke in particular -- reached a boiling point in 1972. It had been seven years since the Yankees had been in the post-season, and 1972 was the first year the Yankees had the playoffs within our grasp since winning the pennant in 1964. (The "closest and latest" the Yankees had been since the 1965 season was 9 games out of 1st place on September 8, 1970.)
On September 12, 1972, the Yankees were a half-game out of 1st place at 74-64, with 17 games left to go in the season. The Red Sox were in 1st at 73-62, the Orioles tied with New York at 74-64, and the Tigers a half-game behind at 73-64. Over the rest of the season, the Yankees went a heartbreaking 5-12, while the Tigers won 13 out of 19 to win the A.L. East.
There was plenty of blame to go around for that collapse, but Yankee fans were particularly irate at Clarke, who hit .225/.267/.296 during those final 17 games.
To his credit, Clarke never complained about the boos from fans or the criticism in the press. As quoted by Dick Young in the New York Daily News in 1972:

"Sure, I would feel bad when I saw in the papers that, 'the Yankees can never win the pennant with that guy at second base.' But why get mad. I figure that's his opinion, and he's entitled to it. I must have been able to do something. Don't tell me a ballplayer can fool a manager for seven years."

Years later, Thurman Munson said his adversarial relationship with the media was based on how Horace Clarke was treated.
In 1973, the 34-year-old Clarke hit .263/.317/.308 (80 OPS+), his defense was no longer among the league leaders, and the Yankees were once again double-digit games behind by Labor Day.
It was finally time to move on. That off season, the Yankees acquired 23-year-old utility infielder Jim Mason from the Texas Rangers and installed him as the starting shortstop for the upcoming 1974 season; Gene Michael, the Yankees' on-again, off-again shortstop since 1968, was moved to second base; and Clarke to the bench. It wasn't exactly an earth-shattering move -- Mason was coming off a season in which he hit .206/.273/.290, and Michael .225/.270/.278. If anything, the two represented a substantial downgrade from Clarke's numbers. (By bWAR the previous season, Clarke was still the best option of the three, 0.6 compared to Mason's -0.7 and Michael's -0.9.)
After hitting .234/.294/.255 in 53 plate appearances as a pinch hitter and spot starter, on May 31, 1974, the Yankees finally ended the Horace Clarke Era by selling his contract to the San Diego Padres along with minor league pitcher Lowell Palmer for $25,000. At the time of the deal, Clarke was still the Yankees' best option at second base as Mason was hitting .214/.287/.307 and Michael a putrid .134/.224/.179!
Six weeks later, the Yankees tried to address their second base problem again by acquiring former All-Star Sandy Alomar from the Angels. Alomar, who fathered major leaguers Sandy Jr. and Roberto, played for the Yankees for the next two and a half seasons, hitting .248/.287/.302... again, worse than Horace's career average of .256/.308/.313.
And yet getting rid of Horace Clarke immediately turned around the Yankees' fortunes. With Horace, the Yankees were 23-27, the worst record in the American League; without him, a second-best 66-46. New York finished 89-73, just two games behind the Baltimore Orioles.
The Yankees finally found a solution to the second base problem on December 11, 1975, trading previously forgotten Yankee Doc Medich to the Pirates for Dock Ellis, Ken Brett, and a 20-year-old prospect named Willie Randolph.
Meanwhile, Clarke went to San Diego and hit .189/.255/.200 in 99 plate appearances. He was released at the end of the season and retired. He was a frequent attendee at Yankee Old Timers' Games, and promoted baseball in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He died at age 81 on August 5, 2020, from complications due to Alzheimer's disease.
The Clarke Side

• Horace's nickname was "Hoss". Yankee play-by-play man Bill White loved to draw out the "s" sound.
  
• Clarke had a reputation of being timid on double plays -- the team's pitchers thought he was apt to hold onto the ball and hop aside rather than try to get off a throw if it meant getting barreled over by the runner. (And in those days, runners came in hard -- just ask Willie Randolph!) Yankee pitchers complained to the press about it, and fans started watching for such plays. Any time the 175-pound Clarke didn't complete a double play, the boo birds came out. To be fair, despite his reputation as being afraid of contact, Clarke led the league in double plays turned as a second baseman in 1969 and again in 1971, and finished in the top five every year he was a regular.
  
• Clarke was the last Yankee to live within walking distance of Yankee Stadium, at the Grand Concourse Hotel. His commute to work was a three-block walk... which could be a problem sometimes. Sportswriter Dick Young reported Clarke had an awkward moment when a fan, "this kid, maybe 11 or 12," walked up and asked: "Hey Hoss, how come you can't make the double play?" Clarke replied: "Well, we can't all be stars. I guess I'm just a lousy ballplayer."
  
• Clarke had an unusual batting stance, a throwback to the Deadball Era. He stood with his legs far apart and he choked up high on the bat. Not surprisingly, he had just 27 home runs in 5,243 career plate appearances... but apparently all of them were of the over-the-fence variety.
  
• The first of those 27 home runs was a grand slam! It was off Floyd Weaver of the Cleveland Indians on September 21, 1965. The two-out grand slam in the 4th inning helped power the Yankees to a 9-4 win.
  
• And Clarke's second career home run? Another grand slam! It came on July 16, 1966. Clarke came up with the bases loaded and one out in the top of the 10th of a 5-5 game. Clarke crushed Jack Aker's offering to deep right to clear the bases and give the Yankees a 9-5 lead; Pedro Ramos pitched a perfect 9th to preserve the victory. Whitey Ford, who had entered the game in the 9th inning in relief, got the win. Clarke's first and second home runs were the only grand slams of his career!
  
• Aker was later Clarke's teammate with the Yankees from 1969 to 1972, and the sinkerballing reliever was one of the pitchers who criticized Horace about bailing out on double plays.
  
• Long before John Olerud made it cool, Horace sometimes wore a batting helmet while playing the field. He never explained why; some speculated it was because he'd once been hit in the head by a thrown ball.
  
• Clarke said he grew up listening to Yankee games on the radio, and Phil Rizzuto -- a similarly undersized infielder -- was his favorite player. Horace was 11 years old when the Scooter won the A.L. MVP in 1950.
  
• Mickey Mantle, his knees shot, moved to first base for the final two years of his career. Clarke, the regular second baseman both of those seasons, said that Mantle told him to get every ball he could. Horace led the league in range factor as a second baseman both of those seasons.
  
• The Sporting News reported on March 14, 1970, that Clarke had a "novel twist" during salary negotiations for the upcoming 1970 season. He told the Yankees he'd take less money in salary if they helped him secure a $1 million loan for a construction project in the Virgin Islands. Sportswriter Dick Young speculated: "It's a very simple gimmick. First you get the Yankees to lend you $1 million for an investment. You bank it at seven percent. That brings in $70,000 a year. Then you negotiate your contract with the independent feeling that you don't have to play baseball for a living." Clarke and the Yankees eventually agreed on a more conventional contract at $32,000 -- and no loan.
  
• Check out Horace Clarke's leadoff single on Opening Day in 1970, called by Phil Rizzuto! #23 playing first base for the Yankees is not Don Mattingly, but previously forgotten Yankee John Ellis.
  
• Clarke set the major league career record -- since tied by Joe Mauer -- of most no-hitters broken up in the 9th inning. Both players did it three times in their career... but Clarke did it three times in the same season! He had 9th inning singles to break up no-no's by Kansas City's Jim Rooker on June 4, 1970, Boston's Sonny Siebert on June 19, 1970, and Detroit's Joe Niekro on July 2, 1970. No other hitter has broken up more than two no-hitters in the 9th inning in his career, according to the book Baseball's No-Hit Wonders by Dirk Lammers, but Clarke amazingly did it three times in 24 games spread over 28 days. Mauer's 9th inning heartbreakers came over a six-year stretch.
  
• Clarke went 5-for-6 with an RBI in the second game of a doubleheader on April 19, 1970 -- and had 11 other games where he had four hits. In terms of fantasy scoring, his best day was either May 21, 1969, when he went 4-for-6 with three runs scored and three stolen bases, or July 22, 1971, when he was 4-for-5 with three runs scored and three RBIs.
  
• Clarke was involved in one of the most surreal moments of baseball history on the final day of the 1971 season. The Yankees were playing the Washington Senators -- not the original Senators, who had moved to Minnesota to become the Twins in 1961, but the expansion team founded that same year to replace them. Rangers owner Bob Short, who had bought the team three years earlier, announced he was moving the team to Arlington, Texas, to become the Rangers. (Coincidentally, in 1957, Short had bought the Minneapolis Lakers and, three years later, moved them to Los Angeles.) The final home game of the Senators at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., was on September 30, 1971 against the Yankees. The game was tied, 5-5, but the soon-to-be Rangers scored a pair in the bottom of the 8th to take a 7-5 lead. In the top of the 9th, Felipe Alou and Bobby Murcer grounded out to bring up Horace Clarke. Before he could get to the plate, however, a fan ran onto the field and pulled up first base, prompting hundreds more fans to run onto the field in search of their own souvenirs. Clarke and the Senators ran off the field and the umpires called it a forfeit in favor of the Yankees.
  
• Horace wore #20 all 10 seasons he was with the Yankees. It was never a particularly popular number before him, as the only player who wore it more than a few seasons was Tiny Bonham (1940-1946). Bucky Dent wore #20 from 1977 to 1982, and previously forgotten Yankee Bobby Meacham from 1983 to 1988. Another previously forgotten Yankee, Mike Stanley, wore it from 1992 to 1995, then Jorge Posada had it until Stanley returned in 1997 and reclaimed it. After Stanley left the Yankees, he asked Posada to take it back, saying that number should belong to a catcher. And now it always will, as it was retired for Posada in 2015.
  
• His obituary in The New York Times noted that among major leaguers from the Virgin Islands -- "a relatively small roster" -- Clarke still holds the records for games played, hits, runs, RBIs, and stolen bases.
  
• After he retired, Clarke helped promote youth baseball in the U.S. Virgin Islands. One of the players he mentored was Jerry Browne, who played 10 years in the majors between 1986 and 1995 with the Rangers, Indians, A's, and Marlins. In his SABR biography, Browne credits Clarke with teaching him baseball fundamentals.
  
• According to the book Where Have All Our Yankees Gone? by Brian Jensen, Clarke played a uniquely Caribbean instrument called "the vibes." "The vibes is like a xylophone, marimba-related type sound. It's a keyboard-type related instrument." Clarke said he played the instrument during his Yankee days, but -- unlike Bernie Williams, who frequently strummed on his guitar in the clubhouse -- only during the off-season. "When I was with the Yankees, ya know, the instrument that I had, the vibes, I was doing it, ya know, but never in the clubhouse, though. Once you are in the clubhouse, it is all work, ya know. That was never so much allowed. I had the instrument all the years that I was a Yankee but I was involved with baseball. That was my full time and I didn't have full time to play music but, ya know, in the off-season I would have a vibe and try to learn a song by hearing from a tape or a record and that's what it was." After retiring, Clarke played the instrument with a local band called Out of Nowhere.
  
• Of the 15 major leaguers to have been born in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the only other Yankee was Elrod Hendricks, a backup catcher for the Bombers from 1976 to 1977. Jabari Blash, born in St. Thomas, gets an honorable mention for the three months he spent as a Yankee during the 2017-2018 off-season. Blash was acquired from the Padres for Chase Headley on December 12, then traded to the Angels for a PTBNL or cash considerations. I guess we got the cash, because apparently no player was ever named.
  
• There's a Horace Clarke High School in Jamaica, but it's not named after the Yankee. It's named after the Horace Clarke who was a member of parliament in Jamaica from 1972 to 2002.
  
• Also not him: Horace Clarke, a teenager shot and seriously wounded by a Blackfeet Indian named Owl Child on August 17, 1869. Clarke's father, Malcolm, was killed in the same attack, which was purportedly revenge for Malcolm Clarke having attacked him two years earlier... which Malcolm claimed he'd done because Owl Child had stolen horses from him... which Owl Child said he'd done in revenge for yet an earlier dispute. The pursuit of Owl Child resulted in a massacre of at least 170 people, mostly elderly men, women, and children. As for Owl Child, he escaped to Canada and was never seen again.
  

"I remember the first game I played in Yankee Stadium in 1965. There were more than 40,000 people in the stands. I had just come from my country where there are 30,000 people in the entire country. That was some adjustment." -- Horace Clarke

Overall, Horace Clarke hit .257/.309/.315 in 5,144 plate appearances as a Yankee. His numbers aren't quite as bad as they appear, as he played during one of the lowest offense eras since deadball... an 84 OPS+. That ranks him ahead of fondly-remembered Yankees like Shelley Duncan (81 OPS+), Rick Cerone (80 OPS+), Miguel Cairo (80 OPS+), Bucky Dent (72 OPS+), and... Bobby Richardson (77 OPS+). And while many complained about his defense, his defensive metrics -- such as we have for his era -- indicate he was at least an average defender. He led the league in range factor three times, in fielding percentage once, in assists six times, and in double plays twice.
People tend to think about Clarke -- if they think about him at all -- as either a terrible player, representative of the teams he played on, or a good player who was wasted on bad teams. The truth is somewhere in the middle. As sportswriter Maury Allen said, he was "an average big-leaguer on below-average Yankee teams."
And in fact, Clarke's 16.0 career bWAR as a Yankee is twice as much value as the player he replaced, Bobby Richardson (8.0 bWAR). But Richardson was a fan favorite, while Clarke was scorned. But of course... Richardson won three rings. And Yankee fans love a winner!

"New York is New York. You don’t win, you’re going to hear about it. I was in the middle." -- Horace Clarke

Had Clarke come along a few years earlier and been part of the early 1960s dynasty, he might be remembered fondly as a scrappy infielder, a Tony Kubek or a Bucky Dent or a Scott Brosius -- a good but not great player who had some memorable moments.
Instead, Horace Clarke defines an era of futility.