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Adam Darowski

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Executive Director of Design at Sports Reference. SABR member. Baseball history nerd. Negro Leagues & Latin American baseball researcher. Borussia Dortmund supporter. I schedule the baseball grids. Woke as fuck. He/him.

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 6h

Good lord I am rusty

Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 7h

Time to start recording

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

5 of 8

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite thing is that 4 of the 7 extra half innings have had a man on second with nobody out.

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

Read by the author 😍😍😍

Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

Back on my shit

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so punk. (and also a city in Cuba)

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

Silvio García died in 1977. He was inducted into the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame (the one in Florida) in 1975 and the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013. He was a complete player—a top pitcher, a marvelous hitter, an acrobatic defender, and a speedy baserunner. An under-the-radar all-timer.

Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

If you’ve heard anything about Silvio García, it is likely the story of how he was considered by the Dodgers as the player to re-break the color barrier in the 1940s. Branch Rickey reportedly asked García how he would handle a person hurling racial abuse and García supposedly replied “I’d kill him.”

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

While data can be sparse for Black and Afro-Latino players from the pre-integration era, we’ve been able to track down an astounding 8494 at bats for Silvio García. He had 2646 hits, 135 HR, 334 SB, a .312 BA, and .430 SLG. SEVERAL seasons are missing data. darowski.com/outsider/gar...

Silvio García: Outsider Baseball Stats

Stats and MLEs from stars of Outsider Baseball

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

García’s whereabouts are not known in 1954 and 1955, but in 1956 and 1957 he and a contingent of Cuba players and former Negro Leaguers joined the new professional league in Nicaragua. García had previously played in Nicaragua in a 1949 post-season tour. He played in leagues in EIGHT countries.

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

In 1952, he played his only season in “organized baseball,” playing for the Havana Cubans (Senators system) in the Florida International League. Later that year, he went back to the Dominican Republic, where he also played in 1953. His final season in Cuba was 1953-54.

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

From there, he continued to play in Cuba every winter and spent the summer of 1948 playing his final season in Mexico. From 1949-51, he played three summers in Canada for Sherbrooke in the Provincial League (hitting .315, .365, and .346).

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

By the end of 1947, he had at least 5000 AB and 1500 hits, with a combined .315 in Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic (in 1937 for Trujillo’s team), and the US. He had played in four East-West All-Star Games and the Negro World Series as well as All-Star series in Cuba.

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

For all seasons where we have innings pitched and earned run data, García’s CAREER ERA is 1.60 (362 IP). Unfortunately, his pitching career was essentially done in 1940 because of arm trouble. Luckily, he was an incredible hitter and fielder as well. In 1941-42, he won the batting title in Cuba.

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

García was a mainstay in Latin America as both an infielder and pitcher early in his career. ERAs are tough to find, but we have:

🇨🇺 2.47 ERA (30.1 IP) in 1934-35 in Cuba
🇲🇽 1.68 ERA (112.1 IP) in 1938 in Mexico
🇻🇪 2.11 ERA (64 IP) in 1939 in Venezuela
🇵🇷 1.32 ERA (150 IP) in 1939-40 in Puerto Rico

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

A look at García’s @baseball-reference.com page shows just 4 seasons—1936 (age 22), 1940 (just two games), and 1947-48 (age 32-33, when he was an All-Star both seasons, and won the Negro World Series with the New York Cubans in 1947). Let’s look at what his career looked like by that World Series.

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

There are a handful of players who never played in the AL/NL and barely played in the Negro Leagues (if at all) who I am convinced were Hall of Fame talents. One of them is Cuban shortstop Silvio García, who was born 112 years ago tomorrow.

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

Oh shit, I’ve been looking for my next audiobook for my walks and saw that Evan Dando’s new memoir “Rumors of My Demise” is included in Spotify Premium already. Was really looking forward to this. 😍

(also, 15 pounds now)

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

Matt Sharp Era remains undefeated

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James Smyth @jamessmyth621.bsky.social · 1d

37 MLB postseason series-clinching walk-offs

14 singles
13 home runs
3 doubles
2 sacrifice flies
2 wild pitches
1 walk
1 groundout/error on throw for DP
1 error last night stathead.com/tiny/sCaQT

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

fucking “Pinkerton” man, every time

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

I was starting to fear that good things don’t happen anymore

Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 1d

This one’s an attack to the feels. That list of full-career Red Sox players sure is something.

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