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Asked on Mets broadcast last night, and we missed the answer. Please help.  Name the only player to have a hit for two different teams in two different cities on the same day. Thanks for your help!

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Rich,

On August 4th [1982], Joel Youngblood became the first Major League player to play for two different teams in two different cities on the same day. The New York Mets outfielder started the afternoon by going one-for-two off the Cubs' Fergie Jenkins at Wrigley Field. Following the contest he was traded to the Montreal Expos and flew to Philadelphia in time to enter the sixth inning of a night game at Veterans Stadium. The well-traveled outfielder then went one-for-one off Steve Carlton, another Hall of Fame inductee, in a 5-4 loss.

See: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/yearly/yr1982n.shtml

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