Knowing your limitations

The saddest day is Dave Cole's remarkably unremarkable six-year career in the majors comes 69 years ago today as the Chicago Cubs sell the onetime Milwaukee Braves pitcher to the Philadelphia Phillies.

“That's too bad,” Cole says at the time of being sent to the Phillies.

“They’re the only team I can beat.”

Cole is right there as four of his six career victories come against the Phillies, including two in 1954 during Cole's one and only season with the Cubs.

The prophetic Cole goes 0-3 with the Phillies in 1955 before they ship him to the Brooklyn Dodgers, who promptly send him to the minors.

Alas, he never again pitches in the majors.