Charlie Caldwell’s Yankees and major league career lasted just 2.2 innings. Those 2.2 innings were pretty bad. Yet, he might (key word: might) have had an impact that went well beyond that.
Not a lot can be found about Caldwell’s baseball career before he showed up on the Yankees in 1925. He presumably played at, and graduated from Princeton, but there’s no easily find-able minor league stats before or after his time in the majors.
Yet, Caldwell made his major league debut as a 23-year-old on July 7, 1925. He came in and cleaned up the final 1.