Reaching the top of your profession is something everyone wants, but few achieve.
It’s that way in sports like baseball, where even the fans only remember a few of the top names.
But one little known Oklahoma baseball player recently reached the pinnacle of his sport.
Eddie Carnett has more than just bills in his mail these days. Some of it is actual fan mail, from baseball fans who just realized he is the oldest living ex-major leaguer.
Drafted out of high school in 1935, Carnett was a hard throwing southpaw. He hurt his shoulder playing pepper of all things. The injury healed kind of slow.
Carnett was a good hitting pitcher, though, which kept him hanging around.
Casey Stengel called him up to the Boston Braves in 1943, and then sent him down again after the two had words.
He got another chance with the White Sox in 1944, and lasted the whole season as a first baseman and outfielder. He was traded to the Indians in 1945, and then drafted into the Navy.
That was it. Eddie Carnett never got back to the show. In 1955 he hung up his spikes.
On April 4, he became the oldest living Major League Baseball player.
He’ll be 100 by the time the World Series ends this year.
Eddie and his wife Marilee Carnett live with their son now.
He likes to fish when the weather is good.
A couple of years back he even threw out the first pitch for his old Pacific coast league team, the Seattle Rainiers.