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The day The Deacon went 18 (no pitch-count then)
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| 7/19/14
| Bob Smizik
Posted on 10/17/2019 3:54:19 AM PDT by a little elbow grease
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To: georgiarat
Control and a variety of pitches they can control in any situation is a lost art for most.
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Yep.
To: Rummyfan
To: Stosh
‘So even though I grew up in Illinois, I got to watch Mazeroski park the walk-off that sunk the hated Yankees’
I grew up in Jersey, the Yankees very back yard, and was sitting in class for game 7; we had no TV in the room, but my teacher, avid Yankee fan that he was, has a transistor radio stuck to his ear for a while...after some time sitting entranced with his class engaging in general mayhem, he got up and walked out into the hall, returning a minute later and said “The Pirates won’...I erupted in cheering, looking back, it probably hurt his feelings, but he was a grown man, and I was 11 years old, so...
To: Stosh
Yes our nuns would let us watch the World Series too.
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posted on
10/17/2019 6:55:36 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: Stosh
Yes our nuns would let us watch the World Series too.
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posted on
10/17/2019 6:55:38 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: a little elbow grease
"Tom Dempsey was an inspirational NFL player. Despite being born with only half a right foot and no right hand, the tenacious kicker had an 11-year NFL career. Dempsey kicked a record 63-yard field goal with the New Orleans Saints in 1970." He also had a shoe on his kicking foot with a FLAT front. I wonder if that was fair. Not only that, but the kicking shoe had a wooden block inside to make the front of it flat. Dempsey essentially had a croquet mallet for a foot which meant he could get great distance but he was not very accurate. I would lump him in with pitcher Antonio Alfonseca who was born with six fingers on his pitching hand - he was an oddity but the oddity didn't exactly help him.
BTW, Detroit Lions great Alex Karras was asked why nobody rushed Dempsey on that famous kick. He said, "We were too busy laughing. Nobody thought he could make it." Also, the New Orleans coach said he got confused about which side of the field they were on or he would have never sent Dempsey out there. At the time, the NFL record was like 55 or 56 yards.
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posted on
10/17/2019 7:17:20 AM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(The Democrats - Paid For By The Father of Lies. There is no truth in them.)
To: a little elbow grease
The tragedy of Maloney was how his career ended. I think he was 29 when he ruptured his achilles. He tried to come back but was through. Today, he would be pitching full strength the next year. He would have been in his prime pitching for The Big Red Machine.
To: OrangeHoof
BTW, Detroit Lions great Alex Karras was asked why nobody rushed Dempsey on that famous kick. He said, "We were too busy laughing. Nobody thought he could make it." Also, the New Orleans coach said he got confused about which side of the field they were on or he would have never sent Dempsey out there. At the time, the NFL record was like 55 or 56 yards.
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LOL
To: Stosh
One of my grade school teachers was a nun from Pittsburgh. So even though I grew up in Illinois, I got to watch Mazeroski park the walk-off that sunk the hated Yankees - our class that afternoon was the national broadcast of the World Series game on a TV that nun had set up for the occasion. As I recall, she didnt smile much - she did that day.
I grew up in Pittsburgh and attended Catholic grade school here. Some of the biggest baseball fans I have ever met were the nuns who taught me. Elderly ladies in habits and granny glasses who could rattle off ERAs and batting averages like a Sabremetrician. They rooted for the Pirates and since their Motherhouse was in northeastern PA a lot of them were NY Met fans.
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posted on
10/17/2019 9:01:41 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: IrishBrigade
The anniversary of Mazeroski’s home run just passed.
As they do every year a handful of the faithful gathered on the University of Pittsburgh campus at that wall it went over, the last remaining piece of Forbes Field, to listen to a recording of the play-by-play of Game Seven.
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posted on
10/17/2019 9:02:56 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: OrangeHoof
excessive weight training to get their arm speed up to its maximum is why you see pitchers burn out so fastYou can grow your muscles but not tendons and ligaments.
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posted on
10/17/2019 10:33:08 AM PDT
by
Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
To: a little elbow grease
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posted on
10/17/2019 10:46:39 AM PDT
by
Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
To: JonPreston
Don’t forget Warren Spahn and Stan Musial!
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posted on
10/17/2019 10:58:24 AM PDT
by
stboz
To: Hebrews 11:6; JonPreston; OrangeHoof
"There's a famous game in which Spahn and Marichal dueled scorelessly into the 16th, before Willie Mays finally ended the proceedings by homering off Spahnie."
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I think Spahn was around 42 years old when he took part in that beauty. He had one cool windup......... and Marichal.... UNREAL. Those were the good old days of baseball.
I believe that baseball was never better than in the early 60's.
To: a little elbow grease
Correctamundo! Born 4/23/21. If he hadn’t blown out his arm by then, he wasn’t ever going to.
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posted on
10/17/2019 11:15:13 AM PDT
by
Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
To: stboz
Warren Spahn and Stan Musial!Yes!!! Two all time favorites of mine. Wonderful people, great, great baseball players!
To: a little elbow grease
Spahnie had a little elbow grease. And could Marichal ever swing a bat! Just ask Johnny Roseboro.
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posted on
10/17/2019 11:26:25 AM PDT
by
Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
To: Buckeye McFrog; IrishBrigade
As they do every year a handful of the faithful gathered on the University of Pittsburgh campus at that wall it went over, the last remaining piece of Forbes Field, to listen to a recording of the play-by-play of Game Seven.
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I am a lifetime Pirate fan........ watched everyone from around 1953 to now. For a couple of decades we had some pretty damn good seats about 15 rows behind the Pirate dugout on the first base line.
It was a God-send to observe/study players like Clemente, Stargell, Maz, Groat, Virdon etc. Very educational ....... helped me play the game for money later in life.
Nevertheless, when they closed old Forbes Field against the Cubs with a double header ....... I hung around, and some old friends from the ground crew gave me the "throw down" homeplate (from the Pirate bullpen down the right field line. It's now out on our driveway still looking good ...... about ten miles from its origin.
To: Hebrews 11:6
"And could Marichal ever swing a bat! Just ask Johnny Roseboro."
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LOL. I remember that Sunday afternoon pretty well (August of '65). That was a little embarrassing for baseball, but great theater.
;-)
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