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  1. craig
    15th May 2012 @ 3:20 pm

    On a similar baseball vein, many people have also never heard of a fascinating character called Al Shaw.
    Al was born in Burslem and is one of the few Englishmen to have played major league baseball.
    He was nicknamed “Shoddy”, was born in 1873 and was 28 when he signed for the Detroit Tigers in 1901. A right handed catcher, Al also played for The Boston Americans, Chicago Whitesox and the Boston Doves, retiring in 1909

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