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Vanity. Dizzy Dean question
Sokol

Posted on 05/15/2023 6:02:50 AM PDT by Sokol

I am looking for information about Dizzy Dean. I grew up in Mobile county. When I was a teenager my dad drove me to the Mississippi gulf coast to a small building for Dizzy Dean. It was closed. We later found that he had passed, so it must have been 1974. I’m trying to determine exactly where that office was. It was several hurricanes ago, so it may be gone. Does anyone know anything about that building? Thanks for any help.


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; dizzydean; mlb

1 posted on 05/15/2023 6:02:50 AM PDT by Sokol
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To: Sokol

Google it.


2 posted on 05/15/2023 6:07:17 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Sokol

https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/stone-county/article242596376.html

https://oldfirehousewiggins.org/tag/dizzy-dean/


3 posted on 05/15/2023 6:13:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Sokol
Sometimes the origin of a nickname is disappointing, because you expected that there would have been a more colorful story behind it.

Back in 1929, a ballclub made up of Army soldiers, representing the Fort Sam Houston army base in San Antonio, TX was playing an exhibition game against the MLB team Chicago Red Sox.

On the mound was a 19-year-old Army soldier named Jay Dean. He was apparently pitching quite well and frustrating the professional ballplayers as he kept getting them out.

Finally, in exasperation, one of the White Sox managers shouted from the dugout for his players to "knock that dizzy kid out of the box" and proceeded to call him that "dizzy kid" for the remainder of the game.

Somehow the impromptu moniker stuck and that kid became known as Dizzy Dean for the rest of his life.

I was hoping for a better story, but there you go.

4 posted on 05/15/2023 6:30:46 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,181,324 Truth | 87,174,230 Twitter)
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To: SamAdams76

“Sometimes the origin of a nickname is disappointing, because you expected that there would have been a more colorful story behind it.”

You can say that again. I once saw the name Dickshooter, Idaho. I expected a really colorful story about a Clymer gunfighter. Instead I find that a man named Dick Shooter had a homestead there. Nothing more.


5 posted on 05/15/2023 6:49:14 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (I stayed drug - free going on 63 years for this?)
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To: Sokol

Didn’t he say, it ain’t braggin if you can do it.


6 posted on 05/15/2023 6:50:24 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Sokol; All

There’s a story, perhaps apocryphal, about Dean announcing a ball game. The camera focused on a couple in the stands kissing. Dean supposedly said, “He’s kissing her on the strikes and she’s kissing him on the balls!”


7 posted on 05/15/2023 7:08:34 AM PDT by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist...)
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To: Red Badger; SaveFerris; PROCON

From Wikipedia:

“Actor Ben Jones wrote and performed a one-man play about Dean, entitled Ol’ Diz.”

I hear that Ben’s previous one-man play, La Cocina, starring Pepe, did just okay off-off-broadway.


8 posted on 05/15/2023 7:20:43 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Larry Lucido

?........................


9 posted on 05/15/2023 7:26:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger; SaveFerris; PROCON

I hear Dean and DiMaggio used to go to Dinkie Donuts together.


10 posted on 05/15/2023 7:35:29 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Sokol

One of my great baseball memories was watching Dizzy Dean pitch an inning in an old timers game in the summer of 1966 in the Astrodome. Other pitchers in the game lobbed easy pitches to the elder hitters but Ol’ Diz’ in his yellowed Cardinals uniform threw good stuff and got all three hitters that faced him out.

I recall that there were other great names in that game but the only two I am sure about were Dizzy and Mickey Mantle, who jacked one over the left field fence.


11 posted on 05/15/2023 7:49:09 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: SamAdams76
Dean was known for antics which inspired his nickname. In time, perception became reality. In Game 4 of the 1934 World Series against Detroit, Dean was sent to first base as a pinch runner. The next batter hit a potential double play ground ball. Intent on avoiding the double play, Dean threw himself in front of the throw to first. The ball struck him on the head, and Dean was knocked unconscious and taken to a hospital. The storied (and possibly apocryphal) sports-section headline the next day said, "X-ray of Dean's head reveals nothing."

LOL!

12 posted on 05/15/2023 8:37:43 AM PDT by spankalib
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To: DeFault User
I recall that there were other great names in that game but the only two I am sure about were Dizzy and Mickey Mantle, who jacked one over the left field fence.

Are you sure about Mantle? He was still active in 1966.

13 posted on 05/15/2023 9:42:13 AM PDT by awelliott (What one generation tolerates, the next embraces....)
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To: Red Badger

I had to use The Wayback Machine to get the first link.


14 posted on 05/15/2023 10:50:04 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: higgmeister

I don’t know why, my browser, Brave, went straight to it............


15 posted on 05/15/2023 10:53:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: awelliott

Yep, he was there although not retired. It was American League v. National League. It may have been to just add to the crowd.


16 posted on 05/15/2023 3:26:21 PM PDT by DeFault User
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