Posted on 08/06/2007 11:16:12 AM PDT by JZelle
Dave Winfield sat in a police station in Toronto and presumably pondered the bizarre business that had put him there.
The date was Aug. 4, 1983, and the New York Yankees outfielder had committed the not quite cardinal sin of flipping a warmup baseball to a ball boy sitting near the Yankees bullpen in right-center field at old Exhibition Stadium in the middle of the fifth inning.
The kid missed the ball ... but the ball didn't miss a sleeping seagull. It hit the visitor from Lake Ontario squarely in the head and immediately the bird — just like a foolhardy opponent trying to run on Winfield's strong arm — was a dead duck, so to speak.
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Envirowackos are taking over the whole world. Amazing.
Reminds me of the Randy Johnson exploding pigeon video.
PETA wackos don’t think because their brains lack important chemicals available only from eating meat.
Tell them to come to Salt Lake City. They can have as many as they want.
I seem to remember a story about Ted Williams shooting the pigeons in Fenway Park with a .22 rifle. Would’ve been back in the 40s or 50s I believe.
Semper Fi,
Great tag line. Thanks for your service!
I just put the radio on at 3pm. NY at Toronto now, er, again. 5-3, bottom of the 6th.
beach rats they are bold as all get out here: a lady next to me was eating a sandwich at the beach yesterday and the gull dive bombed her and knocked it out of her hand and a pack of fifty converged on it and gobbled it down in no time.
I always wanted to know how that pitch was scored.
Yeah - and that was way back in 1983....
I would assume a “ball” — pitcher takes the risk, you know.
I would have thought it would have been scored as a non-pitch. If the bird interfered with the trajectory ball and caused it to be called either a ball or a strike then either team could protest the call. But I’m not even sure there is such a call as a non-pitch.
I'm not sure but I'd expect it would be ruled 'dead' when it hit the bird. The bird most certainlty was, spectacularly so. I couldn't believe that there were people actually saying that he hit the bird on purpose. I know he's good, but I don't think he's that good.
One of the finest gentlemen in the game, IMHO. I had the pleasure of watching him play in San Diego. Always time for the fans, especially the kids.
Remember when Jim Lorentz of the Buffalo Sabres killed a bat with his stick during a playoff game? He was called “Batman” for a while.
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