Player/Scout/Umpire/ Manager Moriarty, I presume?

On Nov. 3, 1926, George Moriarty became the ultimate jack-of-all-baseball-trades. Replacing Ty Cobb (who was leaving to sign as a player with the Philadelphia Athletics) as Tigers manager, Moriarty became the first person to hold the jobs of player, scout, umpire and manager in MLB.

Though he probably beared no relation to the similarly multi-talented Sherlock Holmes archnemesis Professor James Moriarty, on account of the latter's imaginariness, George Moriarty's grandson, Michael, played the second lead opposite Robert De Niro in the 1973 baseball movie Bang the Drum Slowly.

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