Jeoff Long

Who is Jeoff Long?

Jeoffrey Keith Long is a retired American professional baseball player. Although he began his career as a pitcher, Long struggled on the mound during his first two minor league seasons and converted to first baseman in his third season to take advantage of his powerful bat. He reached Major League Baseball at the age of 21, and spent part of the 1963 season and all of 1964 as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago White Sox.

Long threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighed 200 pounds. He signed with the Cardinals in 1959 after graduating from high school in Erlanger, Kentucky. As a pitcher in his first two years in the low minors, he compiled a record of two wins and 14 defeats in 45 games, but successfully changed positions in 1961 and the following year he swatted 30 home runs for the Tulsa Oilers of the Class AA Texas League.

The Cardinals recalled him in July 1963 and he made five appearances as a pinch hitter for them that season, garnering one hit. The following year, he served as a pinch hitter and substitute first baseman and right fielder for the 1964 Redbirds through the first week of July.