Double duty for a day

In the good old days prior to managers and coaches obsessing over pitch counts, Ulysses Simpson Grant “Stoney” McGlynn pitches – and completes – both games for the St. Louis Cardinals 117 years ago today in a doubleheader split against the Reds in Cincinnati.

McGlynn tosses a five-hit, 1-0 shutout in the first game before falling 5-1 in the second game before a Monday afternoon crowd of 3,000.

McGlynn goes on to win 14 games for the Cardinals in 1907. The right-hander from Lancaster, Pa., also loses a major league-worst 25 games that season.

He lasts three seasons in the majors – all with the Cardinals – from 1906-08, losing 33 of 50 decisions despite posting a 2.95 earned-run average.

While McGlynn is 36 when he throws his last pitch in the majors in 1908, he keeps pitching in the minors before finally retiring after the 1915 season, when at the age of 43 he goes 9-9 in 19 appearances for El Paso in the Class D Rio Grande Association.