The Resume

(March 4, 1897-December 7, 1969)
Born in San Francisco, California
Birth name was Francis Joseph O’Doul
Relief pitcher for the New York Yankees (1919-22) and Boston Red Sox (1923)
Outfielder for the New York Giants (1928,1933-34), Philadelphia Phillies (1929-30), and Brooklyn Dodgers (1931-32)
.349 batting average
112 home runs
Two-time National League batting champion (1929, 1932)

Why he might be annoying:

He dropped out of high school to work in a slaughterhouse.
He was so underused by the Yankees that he once missed a doubleheader (having erroneously assumed the games would be rained out) and manager Miller Huggins never noticed his absence.
He set a record (since tied) by giving up 16 runs as a relief pitcher (July 7, 1923).
While managing the minor league San Diego Padres, he insisted on a clause in contract giving him time off each day for a round of golf.
His attempts to create a trans-Pacific World Series pitting the champions of Nippon Pro Baseball and Major League Baseball against each other never came to fruition.

Why he might not be annoying:

During twenty years as a manager in the Pacific Coast League, he amassed over 2,000 victories, placing him in the top ten minor league managers by total wins.
He was named minor league manager of the year by The Sporting News (1945).
As a hitting instructor, he was consulted by Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Willie Mays.
He played in the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am Tournament seven years (1948-54), and was part of the winning pro-am team twice (1949, 1954).
He spent three months in Japan training baseball players at the country’s ‘Big Six’ colleges (1932).
He helped organize Japan’s first professional baseball league and named Tokyo’s team the Giants after the last Major League team he played for.
He took the San Francisco Seals on a tour of Japan to foster post-WWII reconciliation (1949).
He became the first American elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (2002).

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Baseball Players
• Boston Red Sox
• Brothers and Sisters, I Have None
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 81]
• Golfers
• I am Left Handed - Male [H-P]
• I Did Not Graduate High School [N-S]
• I Died in 1969 (Ranked: 72)
• I Died in the City I Was Born In
• I Died on Pearl Harbor Day [December 7] (Ranked: 1969)
• I Played For the Yankees and Dodgers
• I Played For the Yankees and Red Sox
• Los Angeles Dodgers
• My Nickname is Part of My Name [M-Z]
• New York Yankees
• NL Batting Champs (Ranked: 1929)
• NL Batting Champs (Ranked: 1932)
• Philadelphia Phillies
• Profiles 51251-51500 (Ranked: 51283)
• San Francisco Giants

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 14 Votes: 71.43% Annoying