Dizzy Dean

Young Nationalist ^ | 3-16-05 | Bob Skilnik

[ChadGore]

Re:This Dizzy Dean???

No, THIS Dizzy Dean:

[speedy]

Branch Rickey used to say that if he had to deal with one more like Dean, he would have been out of the game.

[Jackknife]

Cool post. Here are some photos and quotes of ole Dizzy.

"Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball."

"The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing."

"The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind."

"Practice, work hard, and give it everything you have."

"It ain't bragging if you really done it."

[don-o]

Thanks for a memory I had almost forgotten

Didn't they do live commercials between innings for Falstaff beer?

[WKB]

He just loved Dizzy Dean!

Yes DD is from Wiggins
http://www.msfame.com/hof.html

Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese

Saturday afternoon baseball.
You're dating yourself again.
Unless you just "barely" remember. :>)

[WKB]

Good Ole Boy Mississippi Ping

[stboz]

He could slaughter "The Wabash Cannonball" to a fare-thee-well. I'd rather have screeched my fingernails on the blackboard than listen to that.

[sinkspur]

Diz was asked "What's the hardest hit ball you've ever seen?"

He said "A line drive that went through the pitcher's legs that the centerfielder caught."

[dixiechick2000]

"Saturday afternoon baseball."


I loved Pee Wee and Dizzy!
I used to watch it with my Grandaddy.
He taught me baseball's finer points.

Daddy taught me about football.


"You're dating yourself again.
Unless you just "barely" remember. :>)"


Don't go there. ;o)

[selucreh]

Outchere in TX, Nolan Ryan is a big pusher for a foundation company. Seems I hear it on the radio at least once a day (AM radio, that is). His quote of Diz - "It ain't braggin' if you can do it" - is thoroughly entrenched in my memory, conscious or otherwise. Thanks for the ping, I preciates it!

[stboz]

Padnuh!

[SuziQ]

Oh, baseball was a regular happening around our house, but I don't remember if he had any special teams or anything. I was very young, but I do remember hearing Dizzy calling the games. My Daddy had a friend, last name of Reese, who his friends called "Pee Wee" . Not the same guy though. ;o)

When Daddy was younger, he and some other guys at Hercules formed a softball team and he played a lot. That was before I was born, I think. I don't have any memories of him playing.

Friday night fights were also a popular thing in our house. I can hum the theme song right now. They were sponsored by Gillette!

[SuziQ]

Wow! I didn't realize he only died in 1974!! That was the year I graduated college. When I was little, Daddy used to say, as we drove through Wiggins on the way to our Fish Camp, that Dizzy Dean lived there, but somehow I always thought that he had died, and he USED to live there.

[SuziQ]

Do you live near Wiggins?

[tallhappy]

Dean never pitched a no-hitter.

His brother did, yes. Not Dizzy.

[gulfcoast6]

He is buried in Bond, MS, a hop, skip and a jump from Wiggins.

[SuziQ]

I don't think I've ever been to Bond, though I saw the sign for it every time we drove to the Coast.

[bourbon]

Who remembers Ol' Diz brand charcoal?? I remember that stuff fondly from when I was a kid. Do they still sell that stuff?