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Posted on 10/03/2011 4:59:47 PM PDT by rhema
And now, for the rest of the story . . .
I wanted to name my son Sandy, but the Missus wouldn’t have it.
Justin Verlander passed up one of his records this year. 24 wins and a no hitter in the same season.
BTW Playoff thread over here. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2786167/posts
Koufax was as good a pitcher as I’ve ever seen pitch, and I’ve seen ‘em all over the past 50 years. When the Dodgers came to Chicago, and Koufax was scheduled to pitch, it was an event! Lots of folks would come just to see him pitch.
Didn’t the Dodgers have Koufax, Drysdale and Juan Marichal (unsure of spelling) on the same team at one time?
Not Marichal...he was a Giant.
Thanks my memory is pretty much no good, tho if someone had mentioned the Giants I would have remembered.
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Should have never let him get away from Cincinnati.
Koufax was remarkable, but I always considered Bob Gibson the last of the greatest pitchers of the era...
I saw him pitch once, when I was a kid, that was at the Coliseum, he did not make it past the first inning, he walked at least two, and had at least two wild pitches, before they pulled him.
I remember it more because my Uncle, whom I went to the game with, often told the story over the years.
He was my boyhood idol growing up as a lefty (baseball lefty not political lefty).
As Ernie Banks said about him: “You can’t hit what you can’t see.”
And even Jews joke that Jews can’t play sports. Want another incredible Jewish baseball star? Hank Greenberg got 183 RBI and 58 home runs. Due to wars and health, he only played nine full seasons.
In game 6 Curt Flood discovered what happened when you misplayed a ball in center-field at old Tiger Stadium (440 feet to straight-away center).
Not passed up, Verlander had an excellent year but he's not at Koufax' level yet, not even statistically.
(On the mound anyway).
Lolich was a good pitcher for the Tigers...not HOF material of course, but good.
Flood misjudged it, cost them the game and the Series. It happens.
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