Smoky Burgess, who set a major-league record for pinch hits during his 17-year career in the 1950s and 1960s, died Sunday. He was 64. Burgess had 145 pinch hits, a record until surpassed by Manny ...

It was once said of Smoky Burgess, a North Carolina native and one of the best pinch-hitters in Major League Baseball history, that you could wake him up at 3 a.m. on Christmas morning, with two ...

March 7: Acquired Max West from the Indians for Clarence Maddern. Maddern, an outfielder, had played briefly for the Cubs in 1946 and 1948-49, batting .252/.307/.381 in 93 games.

Old-timers (not me) can remember Smoky Burgess and Jerry Lynch with fondness. With pinch running, though, the only immediate memory most of us may have is of the 1970s A’s, thus giving Charlie Finley ...