This likable utility man held the AL rookie stolen-base record (49) for 76 years
until
John Cangelosi, another White Sox player, broke it in 1986. Once called Hook
because of his beak-like nose, Zeider became Bunions when he contracted bloodpoisoning
after a
Ty Cobb spiking sliced into his bunion. When he was traded along with another
run-of-the-mill player to the Yankees for defensive star
Hal Chase, the
New York
Globe's Mark Roth wrote in disgust: "[Manager Frank] Chance traded Chase for
a bunion and an onion." Zeider and Dutch Zwilling are the only two men in the twentieth
century to play in three different major leagues in the same city.
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Rollie Zeider
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