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Baseball’s Forgotten Man: 1954
FixMLB ^ | 06/05/12 | FixMLB

Posted on 06/05/2012 6:03:05 AM PDT by thurmant

This is a cool article about baseball coaches that appeared in the June 19, 1954 edition of the "Saturday Evening Post"


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; billymartin; leodurocher

1 posted on 06/05/2012 6:03:20 AM PDT by thurmant
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To: thurmant

Frank Crosetti- 17 yrs MLB player with NY Yankees = 20 YRS Yankee 3rd base coach. 17 world championships, 23 American league pennants. No one else in baseball even close to those records. will remain forever


2 posted on 06/05/2012 6:27:04 AM PDT by capt B
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To: onedoug

Ping


3 posted on 06/05/2012 6:38:03 AM PDT by stylecouncilor (Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
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To: capt B

Yogi Berra?


4 posted on 06/05/2012 7:04:56 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: stylecouncilor; windcliff

“Just one more season and it’ll be perfect.”


5 posted on 06/05/2012 7:37:18 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: thurmant

I see Baseball 1954 all I can think of is the Giants beating the Indians in four straight.


6 posted on 06/05/2012 7:41:34 AM PDT by csmusaret (I will give Obama credit for one thing- he is living proof that familiarity breeds contempt.)
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To: jjotto

close. Berra, 21 pennants(player+manager), 13 WS


7 posted on 06/05/2012 9:39:45 AM PDT by capt B
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