Well your wish has been granted. Hall of Famer, Charles, 'Old Hoss' Radbourn, was born on December 11th, 1854. Old Hoss played for several teams starting with the Buffalo Bisons and ending up with the Red Sox and Reds.
Had a great career, but his highlight was the 1884 season. If Cy Young was pitching back then, he would have won the Cy Young Award. He had a 1.38 ERA, with 59 wins (and this was before expansion) but even more impressively, he pitched 678 innings that year. Even after a year like that, he never had to have Tommy John surgery.
In honor of the 160th birthday of Old Hoss Radbourn, he gets our baseball birthday quote of the day
"He could throw the ball where he wanted to, and that's just what the batsman did not want it, for no other pitcher had the weaknesses of the batsmen who faced him down to a finger point like 'Old Rad.'
--Frank Bancroft
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