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However, the league was not sure whether to consider the team for expansion or relocation. The "Beach Bums" name referred to the residents and visitors who come to Michigan's most popular resort town, to spend time on the beach.
Mason was 26 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 4, 1984, with the Detroit Tigers. He lettered all four years in basketball and two years in football, but just one year in baseball. I kept checking to see if I was let go, but luckily my name never made that list. “I would have been satisfied if 1984 had been my only year.
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This Roger Mason baseball card checklist includes every known baseball card that Roger Mason has appeared on, in chronological order. I made $422 a month and that went for rent and our car,” Mason said. Saginaw Valley didn’t offer baseball as a varsity sport when he enrolled. Their son, Jason, was the Beach Bums' Vice President and Director of Baseball Operations.
I told them I wasn’t nervous, but I was hoping they wouldn’t see my legs shaking.”He was still nervous when Anderson patted his right arm to bring him into the game.“Seriously, I didn’t know whether to walk or jog or what the protocol was because I had been a starter my entire minor-league career,” he said with a laugh. “Earlier, before the game started, Sparky had called down to the bullpen and kidded with Marty Castillo about his favorite college football team. That’s where he finished his career, going 2-4 with a 3.51 ERA.That came 10 years after his debut with the World Series champion Tigers.“I look back at how far I came from my final tryout camp to what I accomplished and I have to say I feel very fortunate,” Mason said.“I think back to that very first spring I spent in Tigertown with all the other minor-league players. By the time he graduated, he had grown to his pro height of 6-feet-6. The 6'6" righty made his on-field pro debut the following year for Macon in the South
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In high school, Roger was an all-state player not only in baseball but in basketball and football as well, playing wide receiver on the gridiron, forward in hoops, and, of course, pitching on Bellaire High School’s baseball team. Fifteen days later, on December 17, he was traded to San Diego with minor leaguer Mike Freitas for pitcher Mike Maddux. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith.Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. The second was a two-run home run by Rick Dempsey in the top of the fifth inning.He said he didn’t remember striking out Ripken, the reigning American League Most Valuable Player, twice.In all, Mason pitched eight innings in relief, giving up two runs in a 4-1 Tigers loss. “I remember standing on the mound that night in Yankee Stadium” – actually, it was a day game — “rubbing up the baseball and thinking how far I had come from Bellaire to Yankee Stadium,” he said. Career: 22-35, 4.02 ERA, 286 SO, P, Pirates/Mets/... 1984-1994, t:R, born in MI 1957, Mase
He relieved starter Zane Smith with two outs in the eighth inning and Atlanta’s Terry Pendleton on third base, with Pittsburgh leading the Braves 1-0. I survived.”Mason’s final major-league totals are those of a survivor. So I didn’t know if it was a joke or not.”It wasn’t. He established the Northern Michigan Hour of Prayer Bible study group with Terry, a nurse, in 2005.
Lefty Bill Scherrer got out of the inning by retiring the next two batters, but then walked leadoff batter Wayne Gross in the top of the second inning.“They told me to start warming up in the first inning, but I thought they were pulling a rookie joke,” Mason said. In the 1993 World Series, he pitched in four games, limiting the Toronto Blue Jays to one earned run in 7⅔ innings. He was a key part of the Pirates’ bullpen for two years.That’s where he got to know Barry Bonds.
“Management decided who got World Series rings and the six of us didn’t get one. Jason also owns and operates the Beach Bums Baseball Academy, an organization that instructs young baseball players in the Traverse City area.
I guess outside of making the Tigers that year, my next biggest thrill was being interviewed by Ernie.”“The excitement in Detroit was everywhere that year,” he said. “It was a struggle getting by. He didn’t hit his major-league stride until he got to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1991. We were assigned to dorm rooms and every floor on the dorm had bulletin boards.