One of the most fascinating things about baseball is the depth of its history. While the best routinely have their legacies stoked by their positions on statistical leaderboards or, in some cases, by their bronze-sculpted visages enshrined in Cooperstown, there are thousands of others who have been forgotten in the expansive history of the game.
Some of these players only managed to appear in a single major league game. They are Moonlight Graham, only without Burt Lancaster portraying their likeness. Or, for a more localized reference, they are Jeff Banister.
Banister, a former long-time Pirates bench coach and current manager of the Texas Rangers, struggled through bone marrow cancer and a broken neck to achieve his dream of making it to the big leagues.