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Those of us in the Northeast are buckling in for the storm to end all storms. I think the last I heard is 14 feet of snow with 160 mph winds and thunder and lightning and maybe a tornado or two. Anyway, in honor of the impending storm, I present the all-Snowmageddon 2015 team: C: Jack Blizzard. Played nine games for Abilene and Plainville in the West Texas-New Mexico League in 1954. Went 0-for-11. The starting catcher for Plainville was Donald Stokes, who hit .405, which was a drop from the .426 he hit the season before. UPDATE: It turns out Blizzard was a pitcher in his nine games, not a catcher. I misread "Class C" as catcher. Plus, he's the only minor leaguer I used, so our new catcher ... Jeff Datz, caught six games for the Tigers in 1989. Nickname: Polar Bear. Works for me. 1B: J.T Snow. Of course. 2B: Rodney Scott. Nickname: Cool Breeze. More like Cold Breeze. Hit .236 in his career, although he did lead the National League in triples with the Expos in 1980. 3B: David Freese. Close enough. (Although a reader has now suggested Ron Cey ... The Penguin. Good one.) SS: Roy "Slippery" Ellam. He had a brief major league career but played in the minors until he was 44. He's part of the famous T206 card set. LF: Gerald "Ice" Williams. Don't know where the nickname came from, but I do remember this brawl with Pedro Martinez. CF: Fred "Snow" Snodgrass. Best known for dropping a fly ball in Game 8 (there had been a tie) of the 1912 World Series, helping the Red Sox score two runs in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Giants. RF: Chili Davis. He ranks 97th all time in total bases. Kind of impressive. And 61st in walks. DH: Ken "Digger" Phelps. One my all-time favorites. Traded for Jay Buhner. P: Ice Box Chamberlain. Won 32 games for St. Louis of the American Association in 1889 and ranked first in the league with 9.4 WAR. Not that they used WAR back then. P: Storm Davis. Won 113 games, including a career-best 19 for the 1989 A's. Nobody called him George. P: Dave Frost. Started Game 2 of the 1979 ALCS for the Angels in his first full season in the majors but hurt his elbow the next season. P: Shovel Hodge. He went 14-15 over three seasons with the White Sox, 1920 to 1922. His given name was Clarence, but according to a 1949 article in the The Nashville Tennessean "he gained the nickname because of his tremendous height and breadth (he weighed 250 pounds) and his general resemblance to a steam shovel." Well, OK... P: George Winter. A college teammate of Eddie Plank at Gettysburg College, Winter won 83 games in the majors. A member of the 1903 Red Sox, the first World Series champions, Winter didn't pitch in the series but worked as a ticket taker, according to BaseballLibrary.com. RP: David Weathers. I never would have guessed this, but he's 19th all time in games pitched. Manager: Whitey Herzog.
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