Posted on 05/31/2015 3:21:37 PM PDT by Impy
Lennie Merullo, the last living Cubs player from the 1945 World Series, died Saturday. He was 98.
Merullo played seven seasons at shortstop with the Cubs from 1941-47. After Andy Pafkos death in 2013, Merullo became the only living person to have played for the Cubs in a World Series.
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Carlos Martinez RHP 5 130
Cool.
Pretty sure Billyboy doesn’t care though, not a sports guy.
I’m surprised Sale is pitching. It was boss when he got the win a couple years ago.
NL splits
Peralta 0
Frazier 60
Gold 60
Posey -160 not
McCutcheon 0
LeM 0
Rizzo 0
Pederson 100
Harper 100
Molina -160 not
Arenado -200 not
Upton -300 not
Braun 100
Bryant 80
Tulo 250
Pollack 100
Grandal LL 40 - 200
AGon 100
Panik 0
Crawford -0
AL splits
Trout 100
Donaldson 200
PUjols -200
Cruz 400
Cain 200
Jones 200
Perez -0
Altuve 100
escobar -0
Martin 100
Iglesias 300 no
Dozier 0
Machado 0
Martinez 0
Kipnis 250
HOlt 0
Gardner 0
Moustakas 200
Fielder 200
Vogt 100 -300
Tex 0 ?
AL splits RP
Betances -100
Boxb -100 to -200
Davis 0
Herrera -0
O’Dea 200 - 400
Britton 100 - 300
Perkins -0
NL splits RP
K-Rod -100
Rosenthal -100
Melancon -100
Papelbon 200 not
Chapman 100
Does anyone remember the name of the guy famous for his loud voice who was selling peanuts or hot dogs or sumpin' in the stands in those halcyon days?
Hold it, I just remembered what he was called..."Gravel Gertie"....you could hear him vend his wares clear to Indiana.....and his hot dogs were 25 cents each!
Leni
People get involved and interested in a league early on and ignore the other league.
For a long time National League fan it might be easier to switch from one team to its hated rival in the same division than to start taking an interest in anything going on in the American League.
In Chicago, there may be a snob factor as well. The north side looks down on the south side. In New York, there's some reverse snobbery among Met fans, but I don't think you find that in Chicago.
not much by the 2 Cubs
they expanded the rosters to add an extra 2 starting pitchers ... starting pitchers who are expected to go 3 innings in an extra inning game.
In that way, theoretically, the game could last 18 innings before the crisis.
Yost did things his own way with all the relievers and only left himself one 3-inning pitcher. If Perkins had to be lifted in the 9th, Yost had about enough for 16 innings. Maybe.
neither manager impressed.
substitutions were without thought ... random based on a pre-written script. Made a farce of the game.
baseball fans don’t care about that game. Except for me.
What was the worst substitution of all?
Usually I watch it. I DVRed it. Including over an hour of pregame shite unfortunately.
I missed the Celebrity Softball game, oh noes.
Worst substitution? I was gonna say not letting Rizzo hit with 2 men on. Rizzo is hitting lefties lately. But Tulo is hitting almost GD .400 against lefties, best of anyone. So..... No that’s it, Rizzo was gonna hit a 3 run jack and be the MVP. Sinker? What do you mean Britton doesn’t give up fly balls? Home run.
I don’t like Ned Yost. I liked the hats.
Did Crawford get high fived for that sac-fly in the 9th? I hope not.
MlbCommishPete R-CT, Rose? Lift ban? Hall? Yay or nay?
I didn’t watch the game, so there may have been even more egregious examples of managerial incompetence, but the mere thought of pinch running for Mike Trout with Brock Holt so that (i) there is less speed and baserunning ability on the bases, (ii) there is worse defense in both leftfield and centerfield and (iii) there is an easier (lefty) out for Chapman in the ninth just caused my IQ to drop 80 points and temporarily be an even match for Ned Yost.
The last person to die that played for the 1908 Cubs was lefty pitcher Bill Mack, who tossed 6 innings in two relief appearances and died in 1971 at the age of 86.
The last person to die among those that played more than two games for the 1908 Cubs was infielder Heine Zimmerman, who played 46 games that year (he wouldn’t become a regular until 1910 and won the Triple Crown—but not the MVP—in 1912) and died in 1969 at the age of 82.
And the last 1908 Cub to die among those that participated in the 1908 World Series was righthanded starting pitcher Big Ed Reulbach (one of the greatest pitchers outside of the HOF; he won 182 career games with a .632 winning percentage and a 2.28 career ERA), who died in 1961 at the age of 78.
Oh, and when did Harry Grossman die? He should have refused to turn the lights on at the last minute, saying “I was supposed to say ‘one-two-three, let there be light,’ but Wrigley with lights is an insult to the team and the city, so they can pay Bill Murray to do it for all I care.”
8/8/88.
April, 1991.
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