Stafford

Who is Stafford?

Stafford was a Major League Baseball right fielder who played in one game for the Philadelphia Athletics on October 12, 1890.

Stafford, whose first name is unknown, went hitless in two at bats.

Stafford is one of four baseball players known only by their surnames who made their first and only appearances in Major League Baseball in the same game for the Philadelphia Athletics on October 12, 1890. The other three are Sterling, Sweigert and McBride. In 2007, the Biographical Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research issued a report indicating that the game was played in Gloucester, New Jersey, and Philadelphia manager Bill Sharsig used four local players in the game. Bill Carle, the chairman of the SABR committee, wrote: "We have no biographical clues for any of them except for a note that Sterling came from Camden. Since these players have not been positively identified, I am removing all the biographical information we have and we can start from scratch to figure out who they are. Unfortunately, I doubt we will ever be able to identify them."