Night Owl Cards

Thanks to Ryan of The Great Orioles Autograph Project , I can now close the book on at least the baseball portion of the Brush With Greatness series. He sent me the last card I needed so that I would have a card of every major league player/manager that I had ever interviewed. Jeff Datz played in only seven games as a catcher for the seventh-place 1989 Detroit Tigers. That was his entire career -- 10 at-bats, 2 hits. You are forgiven for missing it. I certainly did. Datz didn't hold on to his playing career for very long. By 1994, he was a professional manager in the Cleveland Indians organization, leading the New York-Penn League Watertown club. Datz's team set a franchise record for victories in a season. A year later, the Watertown Indians would win their only NY-P title, but Datz wasn't part of the team then, and almost all of the players were different. That's how it works in Class A ball. I covered only one Indians game that '94 season as it wasn...