[re_nortex]

You know you're getting old when you think of baseball races in the late 50's as being recent. I still perceive the classic 1960 World Series as not that long ago in my memory.

I suppose the generational difference is defined as reading this obit and remembering him as a player vs. hearing about Lady Ga Ga and saying "Lady Who Who". :-)

[re_nortex]

Following up to my own post, the death of Bob Shaw made me think about Nellie King's passing a month ago at 82.

Since you're both a baseball fan and a broadcaster, BluesDuke, you might find it interesting that I always thought of Nellie as the "new guy" in the booth with Bob Prince. Of course, to me even Prince seemed like the newbie since Rosey Rowswell was the play-by-play guy I associated with the Pirates.

Open the window, Aunt Minnie...

[bilhosty]

I agree. I remember about 50 years ago I got a my baseball history book. 50 years before that was John MCGraw, Cy Young was just retiring and it was Tinker to Evers to Chance(the cubs actually won pennnats then). Now the 59 Sox and the 60 Pirates let alone Mantle and Maris are as far away from us now as the old days in 1910 were then. That is scary I noticed the article mentioned Billy Pierce his career stats are amost idntical to Jim Bunning. Yet he is not in the Hall of Fame.