Via the best Cardinals blog with a shitty name Viva El Birdos…
Should Moyer make a Major League appearance in 2012, we’ll remain seven Oldest Players removed from the beginning of time. When he was a rookie in 1986, the oldest player in baseball was Phil Niekro. When Niekro was a rookie in 1964, it was Warren Spahn. Spahn, in 1942, causes a setback in Joe Heving, who got a late start and only goes back to 1930, but it’s okay because Heving gets us Jack Quinn, who was a rookie in 1909; Quinn begets Arlie Latham, the Freshest Man on Earth, who takes us back to 1880; Latham brings us to Joe Start, who was 33 when the National League was founded, and that’s all the baseball there is.
I think this is great. There are only 7 players that take us through the genealogy of baseball to the founding of the National League.
