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.
Howie Storie is another one of those ultra-obscure players to play for the Red Sox in 1932. Storie actually played parts of two seasons for the Red Sox, but that was for a total of 12 Major League games. During that time, he did not make a single error and he caught one of the two attempted base stealers on him.
Storie was just 20 years old when he made his Major League debut with the Red Sox in 1930. That year, he appeared in six games, accumulating 20 plate appearances. He had two hits and three walks against two strikeouts and scored two runs. That gave him a line of .118/.250/.118.
He spent most of the 1932 season in the minors, appearing in 34 games with a line of .227/.227/.351. Of his 22 hits, four were doubles and four were triples. He made it into another six games in the Majors, but had just eight plate appearances, mostly early in the season. He had three hits and had a line of .375/.375/.375.
Storie played in 13 games in the minors in 1933 and hit just .167. He was released at some point in the season, and that was it for his career.
We will see but this team DEFINITIVELY has the lack of talent to make it so.
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