Tournament Terrible Card Tuesday: 1905 Offa Neal

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In honor of Scott Fennessy’s win at the Chicagoland APBA Tournament, I present Theophilus Fountain “Offa” Neal of the 1905 New York Giants.  Baseball Reference has his first name primarily listed as just “Offa”. 

I was playing my second series of our divisional at the tournament on Saturday and sitting next next to Scott.  He tells me, “Here’s someone who might work for your Tuesday column”.  Sure enough, Offa Neal is one of the worst.  So I quickly snapped a shot with my phone.  I hope Scott’s 1905 Giants had better bench hitters to choose from than this.  If not, he’s an even better manager than I thought.  Scott, did Neal make an appearance in the tournament?

I’ve listed Offa Neal’s 1905 stats below but it would be simpler just to say that he went 0 for 13 with two strikeouts because that’s all he did.  With that underwhelming season, that was Neal’s only year in baseball.  In case you’re wondering (because I was), the record for the most career hitless at-bats by a non-pitcher is 23 shared by Mike Potter and Larry Littleton.

Year G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA OBP SLG
1905 4 13 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 11/18/2013.
 
 

Illinois native Offa Neal’s 1905 card looks very similar to an American League pitchers’ card without the 45-14.  He gets hit numbers 7-8-9, a 53-21, a 45-39 and that is about it.

Ugly numbers: 66-7, 11-8, 22-13

I dunno… I guess I’d rather have Jackie Hernandez

Trivia:  When he was in the minors, Neal played in the Three-I League which was based in this region (Illinois-Indiana-Iowa, get it?). 

Thanks, Scott! 

Thomas Nelshoppen

I am an IT consultant by day and an APBA media mogul by night. My passions are baseball (specifically Illini baseball), photography and of course, APBA. I have been fortunate to be part of the basic game Illowa APBA League since 1980 as well as the BBW Boys of Summer APBA League since 2014. I am slogging through a 1966 NL replay and hope to finish before I die.

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