There are four position players in Yankees’ history who have played the field, but have never gotten a chance to hit, aka the “Moonlight Graham.” Larry McClure is not quite one of those stories. He has one career major league at-bat. The circumstances that got him that one plate appearance are just as strange as any Moonlight Graham-type story.
West Virginia native McClure was a pitcher signed out Amherst College by the then New York Highlanders in 1910. He had pitched several no-hitters at Amherst, but at 5’6” and 130 pounds, teams thought be might be a little too small.