Can you give me any details about a former major league baseball player, named 
SWAT MULLIGAN. Looking for details aout his major league career- batting, 
defensively, and the like.

Hi Hadler1,

I've searched the web extensively and the only direct reference to Swat 
Mulligan is on The Society for American Baseball Research's site (SABR). 

There is a thread on the SABR-L mailing list titled "Swat" Mulligan. It is from 
1986 and its log number is LOG9603C.  
http://www.sabr.org/sabr/sabr-l/index96.html

The only way to access this information is to be a member of SABR.  Membership 
fees start at $30. 
http://sabr.safeshopper.com/1/cat1.htm?172

SABR also has a fee-based research service that should help you find the 
correct answer. The cost is based on the number of citations or references that 
are returned based on your question. The cost of this service for non-SABR 
members starts at $4.
http://www.sabr.org/tbi/dataserv.htm#request
The SABR has a Biographical Research Committee and according to its website, 
it " collects birth and death data, as well as other vital statistics, on the 
more than 14,000 players and managers to appear in the major leagues since 
1871. The committee provided more than 7,000 corrections to the 1988 edition of 
The Baseball Encyclopedia, and also supplies data to The Sports Encyclopedia: 
Baseball and Total Baseball."  
So odds are that if Swat Mulligan does exist, they'll have data on him. 
Here are MLB players whose last name is Mulligan:
Edward Joseph Mulligan (Eddie)
http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mullied01.shtml

Dick Mulligan
http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mullidi01.shtml

Joe Mulligan
http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mullijo02.shtml

John Mulligan
http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mullijo01.shtml

Sean Mulligan
http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mullise01.shtml
I could not, however, connect any of them with the nickname "Swat." Eddie 
Mulligan's name did come up during a search using the terms " eddie mulligan 
and swat and baseball", however, there was no direct connection between the 
nickname and his given name.  Joe Mulligan was nicknamed "Big Joe", so it's 
unlikely that he's the one you're looking for and I didn't find a nickname 
listed for the other players.
I searched for
swat mulligan
"swat" mulligan
eddie mulligan 
eddie mulligan and swat
mulligan
on the following sites (among others):
http://www.baseball-reference.com/
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/
http://www.historicbaseball.com
I also used the terms:
swat mulligan
"swat" mulligan
folklore and baseball
folklore and swat mulligan
legend or folklore and swat mulligan

on Google, Yahoo!, About.com, and AltaVista

and went to all of the baseball sites in the following Google categories
Major League
http://directory.google.com/Top/Sports/Baseball/Major_League/?tc=1
Players
http://directory.google.com/Top/Sports/Baseball/Players/
History
http://directory.google.com/Top/Sports/Baseball/History/Major_League/
Chicago Cubs
http://directory.google.com/Top/Sports/Baseball/Major_League/Teams/Chicago_Cubs/

Katwoman

Fine answer. I can try to go from here.

Hi,

I have checked all my baseball sources from 
http://www.geocities.com/allaboutSport and didn't find Swat Mulligan, nor in 
Google, nor other SEs. Is it possible you have the wrong firstname? Do you know 
the years of activity?

thanks for clarifying...

I read on a members-only list over at SABR (the Society for American Baseball 
Research - http://www.sabr.org) that "Swat" Mulligan is a folklore character 
similar to Paul Bunyan (except, obviously, a baseball player).

In the possibility that the first name is right and the last is wrong I found a 
player with the name "Swat McCabe"

He played professionally from 1909-1910 and his stats can be found here:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/all_time_stats/players/m/47802/ind
ex.html