Posted on 08/06/2020 10:19:24 AM PDT by JonPreston
Prayers for family, friends and FRiends .....
Condolences.
May he rest in PEACE! Come on Red...............(piece?)
No time to not “check your work.”
Prayers up for Thom and his family. May God comfort and embrace them all.
Prayers up
BTW “ that pitcher” was Ralph Terry
I played 18 holes of golf with him at Encanto
In Phoenix . Ralph was over 70 years old, we played from the tips and Ralph shot -2 under
When we were not Hittin a ball Ralph shared several stories
His story about him meetin Ty Cobb is hilarious
Yes indeed, and at that time I was a kid in Brooklyn rooting for the invincible Yankees. Yogi was in Left field, BTW. And then, in '62, I became a Mets fan...ugh :)
Prayers for all of his family and friends.
Oh man. So sorry. I remember him. Prayers up for family and friends. Thank you for letting us know.
I’m sincerely sorry for your loss. Prayers for his family.
I always enjoyed his posts.
RIP Thom.
He would have loved it!...................
I met Ralph Terry at the Roxiticus Golf Club in Mendham, NJ.
I was there with a friend, Bill Hands, who was a pro baseball pitcher.
He had been invited to play at RGC after the season was over.
Ralph did not play with us that day but, before we left to go to the first tee, he gave each of us a dozen golf balls. (He was the club pro at the time.)
WE: “Thank you for the balls!”
TERRY: “You’re going to need them, the leaves are covering most of the fairways and we can’t keep them cleared!”
He was right! One of the tees on a par 3 hole was about 100’ above the green..it was the only fairway where one of us did not lose a ball!
Bill Hands died in March of 2017 of a heart attack.
ALL baseball players have great stories about the game. Most are used in speaking at charity dinners during the off season. The funny side of the game is great, when told by the player or manager himself. Bill and Ralph had similar careers although, playing for the Cubs, Bill never pitched in a series.
This is how old I am
I had a crystal radio as a kid with a thin 49ft wire you used as an antenna, usually draped over a tree
In N TX we have clay dirt so even the alleys have a ditch on either side to brought running rain water
I used to throw a blanket in a ditch and string the wire
and I could hear the Dodgers on skip
So sorry about your friend’s passing, RIP Thom.
rip ping.
My earliest World Series memory is Mazeroski hitting that Series ending home run. As a dedicated Anyone But The Yanks 9 yr old baseball fan it didn’t get any better than that.
I’ve been reading ‘The Last Boy’ Jane Leavy’s excellent biography of Mickey Mantle. So many familiar names, it’s a nostalgia fest for baseball fans who remember the teams of the 1950s and early 60s. A Little Elbow Grease woulda loved it.
The book The Mick had me treating ribs I laughed so hard
“The Last Boy” is more on the poignant side although there is humor. I knew that he had bad knees but I didn’t know it happened in his rookie season during the WS. He ruined one knee from tripping on an uncovered drainage hole in the Yankee outfield. I think that they now refer to the injury as a “triple”, everything that could be damaged was damaged. It’s amazing that he could even walk again much less play high level MLB.
I also get the impression from the book that no one since has ever hit the ball harder than Mantle. He was hitting balls out of ballparks when the fences were 440 from the plate. 500 footers. There have been university studies trying to figure out what he did to make the ball fly so far. They seem to think it was some kind of imprinted muscle memory that he developed from having his father and grandfather pitch to him every day as a very young child.
And they can pontificate til the cows come home
That Okie had forearms like an Alaska Grizzly
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