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One day after Cooney's fielding gem, Jimmy Neun also turned an unassisted triple play. Despite their joint fame, Cooney and Neun never actually met, as they were playing in different leagues. (They did face each other in a minor league game in 1929, but didn't exchange words.) Finally, nearly six decades later, in 1986, [[Sports Illustrated]] arranged a conference call between the two.<ref>[http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1064806/index.htm]</ref>
Cooney also had a hand in two more triple plays in his big-league career: first, he was credited with an (assisted) triple play (with [[Jim Bottomley]] and [[Rogers Hornsby]]) on July 30, 1924. Second, Cooney was called out when [[Glenn Wright]] pulled off an unassisted triple play on May 7, 1925. Oddly, it involved the same two men as the previous year's play: Cooney was on second while Hornsby was on first and Bottomley was batting.<ref>[http://tripleplays.sabr.org/tp_1920.htm]</ref>
==See also==
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