Dude Gets to Play Baseball for a Second Time

“Last year, the 30-year-old Adam Greenberg set out to get out of the Cup of Coffee club once and for all. Trying to reclaim the skill set that once allowed him to play the sport at its highest level, he took hacks with the Bridgeport Bluefish, an independent team in Connecticut full of former top prospects and those no longer worth the farm club roster space. ‘It’s a whole bunch of guys with similar stories,’ Greenberg told me. ‘And we’re all in this league, trying to get out.’”

Back in May, we wrote about the 974 baseball players who’ve had only one major league game in their careers. Subtract one! Mr. Greenberg, whose lone Major League at bat involved getting beaned in the back of the head by a 92-mph baseball, has gotten out — sort of. He’s been signed to the Miami Marlins for a one-day contract to play against the Mets. He’ll donate his pay to “the Sports Legacy Institute, a group that furthers the study of the effects of brain trauma in athletes and others.”