Is Joey Meneses for real? He might be.

Joey Meneses is a rookie with the Nationals. He is batting .320 with 12 home runs, 29 RBI and a .922 on-base-plus-slugging-percentage. Since he was called up on Aug. 2, he's fifth in MLB in hits. Mene's road has been long. He's played more games as a pro than the total number of MLB games in the careers of Hack Wilson, Hank Greenberg, Jackie Robinson and Buster Posey. The Nats are awful, but they can give themselves a chance to be lucky with a player like Mener.

Joey Meneses had a similar career to Sauer. O'Doul was a pitcher who changed to hitting at age 27 and became a legend. He was traded to the Phillies at 31. His career was interrupted by a Japanese tour. In 1949, he helped revive the U.S.-Japan all-star series. He is in the Japanese baseball hall of fame. The flags of the two countries flew together. Some games drew 100,000 fans. It is a rare example of a baseball player who rose to stardom after being forgotten. Other sports have produced players who arrived late and rose as high as baseball hitters.