Herb Washington was a baseball player who played 105 games for the Oakland As in the 1970s.
In all that time, he never put on a glove. Why not?
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He was a Designated Hitter (DH) which had been introduced by the AL in the 1970s. The NL stuck with the concept that the Manager had to be able to think!
Well he was a designated something, but not a designated hitter.
I confess I had to look him up and had never heard of a Designated Runner who was a very good sprinter and replaced a batter who had got onto base. The Oakland As owner Charley Finley had a lot of crazy ideas but this one apparently worked for a couple of seasons.