Joe Keough
Joe Keough. For longtime Royal fans, the name should ring a bell. Keough was the eighth pick by the Royals in the 1968 expansion draft. He was their best hitter in the 1969 spring training, raking at a .350 clip, but was not in the starting lineup when the Royals made their major league debut on April 8. With the score tied at three, in the bottom of the twelfth, the Royals called on Keough as a pinch hitter and he delivered a sharp single to right, over the head of Minnesota outfielder Tony Oliva, to give the Royals their first ever win.