Posted on 03/11/2021 5:43:54 AM PST by hardspunned
Let’s ponder these statistics for a moment: 187 pitches in a 10 inning complete game, 10 walks, 12 punchouts, 1 hit batter, at least 13 full counts...
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I have had the opportunity to spend time talking with Mr. Maloney on many occasions. He has an endless supply of great stories from his days in baseball and is a fantastic and funny story teller. Just a great guy!
Nice post, dude. What the hell have they done to baseball?
Thank goodness MLB had such a long and wonderful history prior to 2020 cuz I certainly haven’t watched or supported it since.
Imagine baseball if they moved the fences back 20-30 feet and limited the number of pitcher changes to 2. The homerun derby baseball we have now would transition to a fielder game and more strategic hits. Home run derby isn’t exciting to me.
It was amazing. Thanks for posting.
1918 US Army mess cook Private Albert Gitchell of Fort Riley, Kansas becomes the first documented case of Spanish flu; start of worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million
https://www.onthisday.com/history/events.php
Not too shabby for an 80 year old man!
The focus on no-hitters in baseball is a bit silly. Some of those games weren't pitched all that well.
Here's an example of a great game by a pitcher:
July 22, 1997 ... Greg Maddux throws a complete-game shutout for the Atlanta Braves vs. the Chicago Cubs ... he throws 76 pitches ... didn't have a single ball called in two of the nine innings ... only went to a two-ball count TWICE in nine innings.
This guy would sometimes pitch complete games that didn't even last two hours. During June and July it wasn't unusual for him to walk off the mound at the end of a NIGHT game before sunset.
My fav was Greg Maddux, loved the complete games with about 90 pitches, less then 10 ballls the whole game,, games would be over in 2 hours. Umps would call so many strikes they would forget how to call balls and the strike zone would be huge by the 6th inning
Along with Lou Brock, Greg Maddox was another guy the Cubs traded away. Stupidity, that only the Bears and White Sox surpass.
Interesting. he never started more than 33 games in a season. I do believe rotations were 4 man back then. Never more than 250 innings when pushing 300 was the standard of excellence. Despite 187 pitches something tells me he was kept in check to protect the arm. Don’t know-educate me.
I used a McGregor “Jim Maloney” LH baseball glove all through college and a 30-yr HS coaching career. I saddle-soaped that thing with the utmost TLC, restrung it more times than I can remember. Wore it out, but still have it on a shelf. Thanks for the post.
Maloney was an imposing figure on a wonderful pitching staff
Brosnan
Drabowsky
Jay
Purkey
O’Toole
Nuxhall
Klippstein
Tremendous staff ib a great tean,
Maddux was great. Made it look effortless. One of my favs of so many...Koufax, Gibson, Paige, Morris, Whitey...sheesh could go on and on...the starting rotations the 3 & 4 starters. What memories.
Though we may all be cowards for doing nothing while biden was sworn in, we are not all 111 years old.
So how about noting that it is worthless past news next time.
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“those were the good old days when..” is the last refuge of men who are too afraid to fight for their beliefs.
ciao
IF you ever take the Fenway Park tour they will point out the seat out in the right field bleaches(its the only RED one)where Ted Williams hit his longest home run. I believe 510 feet.
However, they also point out where the bull pens are now in right field. Originally, they were along the baselines. They moved them to their current location because the Spendid Splinter kept missing home runs by a few feet. So, the moved the bull pens there. Ted’s HR count went up substantially.
A little baseball trivia
10 walks ???
I don’t think the Cubs traded him away. He was a free agent and signed with the Braves in the early 1990s. As I remember it, the Cubs didn’t have a chance to re-sign him because he was adamant about living in a place with warmer weather than Chicago. I’m pretty sure he turned down a bigger contract offer from the Yankees at the time, too.
Never saw a game there, my college roommate worked the stands there during the summers.
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