1960 World Series: Numbers that even a brain-dead Hillary-Bot can understand

Self ^ | December 30, 2016 | Self

[jobim]

Lovely illustration - thanks!

[clintonh8r]

I was a big Pirates fan, 13 years old. Those were the days when we took transistor radios to school to listen to the WS games.

[IrishBrigade]

Arg...(again)

the old names are rekindled in my memory; Law, Groat, Virdon, Hoak...as well as Mantle, Berra, Skowron, Howard...

baseball ruled in those days...

[Gay State Conservative]

The Seahags gained more total yards than did my Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX but lost,in the last minute,by a whisker.

[Robert DeLong]

Actually a good number of my 8th grade friends as well as my family still claim the Yankees should be the winners.

I see by your profile that you area teacher with 22 years under you belt, so I assume your sentence should have been structured as:

Actually a good number of my 8th grade, friends, as well as my family still claim the Yankees should be the winners.

Since I assume you don't really have friends that are in the 8th grade, and instead the 8th graders are your students. Is that a correct assumption?

[Bullish]

That only works on people who think like reasonable, logical adults. That doesn't work at all on whining babies looking for excuses for losing.

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

305 to 233 EV. That’s a 72 point difference. That’s not even close.

It’s the equivalent of being ahead occasionally throughout the baseball game and ahead in the 8th inning, only to lose by 5 runs at the end of the game.

Then the losing team claims the umpire blew all the calls and they actually won. They want to replay the last inning. The losers claim the pitcher and the catcher cheated. All the sports announcers agree with the losers and they egg them on claiming the losing team is the really the winning team.

The losers tell everyone the baseballs themselves were not regulation size and that the bases were improperly set. And then they claim the scoreboard miscalculated the strikes and outs in the winner’s favor and that altered the game.

When the that fails to make them the winner, the loser claims the fans interfered with the game and request the referees demand an entirely new game because they should have won. And they tell the sports announcers to say that they actually won and the winning team lost.

[Repeal 16-17]

This year’s World Series ended with the Indians and the Cubs each scoring 27 runs. Does that mean they’re co-champions? [/sarc]

[foreverfree]

That was the last WS before I was born (just over 10 months later). The Pirates' next world title came the year I started following baseball (1971). Those 1960 and 1971 Bucs had three things in common: Bill Mazeroski, Roberto Clemente, and Danny Murtaugh (whose mother often babysat my mother when the latter was a little girl in Chester, PA). So those two champion teams resonate deeply with this Phillies phan.

RIP Roberto and Danny.

ff

[Jim W N]

Good analogy.

[SkyDancer]

As in football. Award the win to the team with more rushing yards but lost to the team with the fewest rushing yards who won on points.

[musicman]

BFLR

[Vigilanteman]

FWIW, I met Vern Law in 2010 when he came to Pittsburgh as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of that great 1960 team. A friend of mine took me to the old neighborhood where the Law family lived so Vern could walk to old Forbes Field. A local church had opened their doors to host the (mostly) neighborhood gathering for all of his old friends.

After a short program, he stuck around to sign autographs and chat with anyone who wanted. Really nice man!

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Wow. That’s outrageous. I’m calling for the World Series format to be changed..

[bobby.223]

4 Things. Don’t forget Bill Virdon!

[xkaydet65]

No, in 1960 was in the 8th grade and I still count more than a few of those classmates as friends

[Robert DeLong]

That was the other option. I just didn’t state it. I was really hoping that you didn’t have 8th graders you considered as friends. 8>)

[JonPreston]

Law, Groat, Virdon, Hoak...as well as Mantle, Berra, Skowron, Howard...

I remember them all & yes, baseball was king. I went on to become a Mets fan the following year. I was always a National League guy but jumped to the Yanks briefly after the Dodgers betrayed Brooklyn. Coached thru LL with my son but dropped it after the '86 world series (thank you Buckner). Not sure why, I quess life just got in the way.

[Paladin2]

A majority of 2016 voters voted for someone other than H->!.

[Paladin2]

The games often started later in the afternoon on school days. The gym teachers had a TV in a corner of the gym with the game on.