Snook, who happened to hail from the same Central New Jersey area that I moved to (Somerville), appeared in 18 games for the Padres in 1973, going 0-2 with an earned run average of 3.62 over 27.1 innings of work including a save, all out of the bullpen.
But that 1973 action would end up being the sum total of his Big League tenure, as he would go on the spend the next two years in the Minor Leagues, split between the Padres and New York Yankees organizations.
I couldn’t help but create a “Washington National League” version as well, celebrating that debacle that was the close call with the Padre franchise moving to the Nation’s capitol, yet never happened.
