Posted on 08/24/2020 4:14:18 PM PDT by Shark24
Only two minutes. Sandy at his retirement announcement. Example of class compared to many of today's athletes.
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” “Koufax pitched a no-hitter.” Drysdale’s response was, “Did the Dodgers win?” “
Ah, brings back fond memories of when the Yankee’s Andy Hawkins threw a no-hitter against the White Sox - and lost the game 4 to 0.
Sanford Koufax; born Sanford Braun; December 30, 1935. He’s still alive.
You guys do remember Ali pissing on America by refusing to serve when he was drafted, right?
The sh!tbags who orchestrated that war did more to piss on America than Muhammad Ali could do in a thousand lifetimes.
MLB no longer counts a game as an official no-bitter unless the pitcher goes at least nine innings. Most of the ones they eliminated were rain-shortened games.
I couldn’t care less what you think about the Vietnam war. Real men were called and real men served their country honorably.
If I could live for another hundred years, I could not name one athlete from this era that stood out to me like the players of the 50's and 60's.......
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Ali was a good boxer but there were a lot of better pugalists than he. John O’Sullivan, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano just to name 3 off the top of my head.
Go Palmer!
That being said, shades of “Chariots of Fire” on not pitching.
I never knew about his arthritis or early retirement.
Good on him!
Saw him pitch on TV a lot of times. Amazing to watch.
One of my favorites was Warren Spahn. He was at the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen.
Now we got cryers playing.
I quit watching baseball when the strike happened. Before that I walked, talked, and lived baseball. Nothing would beat going to a game and BSing with the neighbors in the stands and all of a sudden..a close play at home, or somebody steals home. Something like that.
Ya know. Of all the great pitchers the ones I loved the best were the ones who clanked when they went out to the mound. They even carried the kitchen sink with them they had so much junk.
Yeah, the physical therapy and such were quite primitive in his day, it's too bad, but then, wth, he had a pretty great career. Like Nolan Ryan, he struggled early in his career with high walk rates (I think Ryan has the record, but he pitched a really long time).
ROFLOL! Now that right there...
I remember a few years ago, and it THINK it was Harmon Kilebrew-I said think, that said he went to the plate looking for the pitchers best pitch. Said that he had more problems, and said everyone he knew had the same, with junk ballers. You’d be looking for his best pitch, except they were all bad and never knew what the heck was coming. The fast balls looked to be going a hundred miles an hour even if they were 70 because all the junk was slow and slower.
All he cold do was screw himself into the ground swinging at the stuff.
You are right, perhaps that prediction came in 1960.
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