Herb Washington: Profile of an MLB ‘designated runner’
Apr 24, 2020
2 minutes
by Dave Strege
One of the oddities of baseball is the fact Herb Washington earned a World Series ring for the Oakland A’s in 1974 having never played in the field and having never stepped into the batter’s box. He was purely a “designated runner.”
He wasn’t Oakland’s first but is certainly the most celebrated since he never played professional baseball before taking on his unusual role.
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