Failure is often even more fascinating than success. I am definitely intrigued by the 1932 Boston Red Sox, the worst Red Sox team of all time. The team finished with a record of 43-111, for a winning percentage of .279 and very little went right.
Andy Spognardi is another of those super obscure players from the 1932 season. 1932 was his only Major League season, but he did get a bit more playing time than guys like Hank Patterson, Johnny Lucas and Regis Leheny. Spognardi was a Boston native who signed a contract with the team and did not spend a day in the minors before making his Major League debut. He played 17 games in the Majors in 1932 and that was it for his Major League career.
Spognardi played second, third and shortstop for the Red Sox. In his 41 plate appearances, he accumulated a surprisingly successful .294/.400/.324 line with nine runs scored, a double, an RBI and six walks. Despite that, he played just a handful of games in the minors the next two seasons and never made it back to the Majors.
According to his biography on SABR, Spognardi was just using baseball to help pay some of his medical school tuition. He became a doctor after his playing career was over.
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