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Re: Signed Baseball Cards - Oldest MLB Players Alive
« Reply #15 on: October 03, 2025, 12:06:54 PM »
I remember him as Elroy.  Didn't he have a special pitch?  Maybe a forkball?

That's right. A forkball.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forkball (Roy is actually mentioned in this Wiki article.)

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« Reply #16 on: October 03, 2025, 12:11:42 PM »
Not only after retirement but during the offseason as well.  Richie Hebner dug graves in the off season.

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LOL! That's right, WAN. Thanks, I forgot to mention that Roy did his carpentry work during the offseason as well.

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« Reply #17 on: October 10, 2025, 01:53:09 PM »
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Floyd Robert Ross is currently our fifth oldest ex-Major League Baseball player. Robert (or Floyd, take your pick) was born on November 2, 1928, making him 96 years, 11 months, and 9 days old at the time of this posting.

Bob was a high school teacher during both the offseason and his retirement from baseball, then he became a principal and finally a school administrator. After his retirement from the educational field, he owned and operated an avocado orchard for awhile.

Statistically, Bob, or Robert, or Floyd, had a less than stellar career in Major League Baseball, but the fact remains that he played in it for awhile, and thus his presence in this baseball card thread is secure. After all, most of the MLB players weren't a Ruth, a Cobb, a Gehrig or a Mantle, anyway. 

There is an interesting article about Bob that is called He’s Made The List! Enter his name in search and you can find it. It is from 2017 when Bob was currently number 94 on the oldest living MLB players list. 

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« Reply #18 on: October 10, 2025, 02:25:47 PM »
Seems like those baseball card vandals skipped Bob Ross and went after Ross Jones.

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« Reply #19 on: October 17, 2025, 07:40:45 PM »
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Al Worthington is currently our sixth oldest ex-Major League Baseball player. He was born on February 5, 1929, making him 96 years, 8 months, and 13 days old, at the time of this posting. Al, or Allan, take your pick, was yet another MLB pitcher. I say 'yet another' because even a cursory glance at this fledgling baseball card thread shows that most of the players are pitchers.

Al was called Red by his fellow players. (Nice, I love nicknames.) He was a sinkerball pitcher, meaning that the thrown ball would sink by the time it passed over home plate. After his days of playing MLB baseball ended in 1961, he started a new career in...well... baseball. He returned to playing MLB and continued to do so for another eight years. When he really did stop playing, he sold insurance for several years. Then he started another new career in...well... baseball. Not playing though, he was a coach in college baseball. He then returned to MLB as a pitching coach, a manager and a scout. Al also found the time to write a book about his years in baseball called, I Played and I Won.

Allan Fulton Worthington is now retired and enjoying life in Birmingham, Alabama.