If you look at Paul Schreiber’s Yankees career alone, nothing seems especially weird about it. He pitched in two games in 1945, allowing two runs in 4.1 innings. Now, yes, he was 42 years old at the time. While even now that’s old for a baseball player, a 40+ year old playing in the majors wasn’t totally unheard of.
However, when you zoom out and look at the rest of Schreiber’s baseball career, those two games suddenly look very weird.
After being discovered by the then-Brooklyn Robins in amateur ball, Schreiber signed a deal with the team in 1919.