[Monkey Face]

That’s nice to know. I think. Interesting, for sure. Though-provoking, indubitably. I will file it in my Department of Useless Information drawer along with the rest of the trivia that has been accumulating since 1964, when the file began.

:o])

[Scoutmaster]

Make certain you leave room for the fact that until a spate of UTPs in recent years (two UTPs in twenty years qualifies as a spate), the last MLB player to turn an unassisted triple play was third baseman Dick Stuart of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

This was curious, not because I owned a Dick Stuart glove, but because Stuart played in the Major Leagues because of his bat. He was a notoriously inept fielder. Dick was such a bad fielder, in fact, that he was nicknamed "Dr. Strangeglove," after the atomic holocaust Peter Seller comedy film hit the theaters.

Of course, had Stuart been really, really bad, people would have given him some nickname referring to Mets first-baseman Marvelous Marv Throneberry, perhaps the worst fielding position player ever to lace his cleats in MLB (and, according to legend, in 1962, four of Throneberry's errors came while lacing his cleats.)

So - poor fielding Dr. Strange Glove spent about thirty years as the answer to the trivia question - who was the last MLB player to turn an unassisted triple play?