art herring double dipped

i believe that this is the last of the brooklyn players to have played for the team, left and joined another organization, then returned to play for the dodger franchise once more.  art herring was a dodger double dipper.  

[this is the seventyeighth installment in the double dippers posts.  here are the previous posts - brett butler, omar daal, eric young, nick willhite, chris gwynn, mickey hatcher, dave anderson, don zimmer, rafael landestoy, dave hansen, jose vizcaino, hideo nomo, greg maddux, mike maddux, jon garland, chan ho park, vicente romo, gene mauch, denny lewallyn, von joshua, joe moeller, dioner navarro, rudy seanez, bart shirley, randy wolf, ismael valdes, bobby castillo, mike devereaux, pete richert, jay johnstone, jesse orosco, lee lacy, giovanni carrara, jeff weaver, ted sizemore,  orel hershiser, tom goodwin, joe ferguson, eddie murray, matt luke, ken mcmullen, tim wallach, jerry grote, don sutton, ralph branca, todd hundley, elmer dessens, guillermo mota, joe beckwith, jamie hoffmann, babe herman, joe medwick, juan castro, ron perranoski, clyde king, paul waner, hughie jennings, ron negray, broadway aleck smith, george smith, johnny cooney, jim fairey, frenchy bordagaray, doc casey, waite hoyt, luis olmo, clyde sukeforth, willie keeler,  harry howell, germany smith, johnny allen, marv rackley, bobo newsom, maury wills, dazzy vance, ray hayworth, zack taylor, and john cronin.]

here's his 1990 target card

herring had pitched for the tigers for five seasons prior to joining the dodgers for the first time in 1934.  he posted a 2-4 record that year, with a 6.20 era in 14 games (5 starts).  he spent all of 1935 in the dodgers' minor league affiliate in sacramento, before joining the boston braves' minor league affiliate in st. paul for the 1936 season.  herring stayed in st. paul, even as the team became a white sox affiliate in 1937, finally getting back to the majors with the chisox in 1939 for 7 appearances.  after that, he returned to st. paul, which eventually became the dodgers' double-a affiliate.

the dodgers called herring up to the big club in 1944, and he remained there through the 1946 season.  during that time, herring compiled a record of 17-10 with a 3.43 era in 69 games.  the pirates purchased his contract following the 1946 season, and herring ended his big league career with the pirates the following season.

thanks to his long career with the lengthy minor league stretch in the middle, herring went 15 seasons between doubles and triples.  supposedly, the stretch between doubles was a record until jamie moyer hit one 19 years after hitting his previous double.  i don't know if the triples gap is a record, but i do know that art herring was a dodger double dipper.