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Post by inger on Mar 29, 2024 18:04:19 GMT -5
Truth or fiction? It is said that Yogi Berra once said as Ted Williams stepped in at the plate, “Get a hit, just don’t get on base.”… technically possible, but still…
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Post by inger on Mar 29, 2024 23:17:20 GMT -5
Four teams are yet to play a game at Globe Life Field, the Texas Rangers' home since 2020: the Mets, Pirates, Cubs and Reds. The Rangers are scheduled to host all four of those teams in 2024, including opening day against the Cubs on 2024-03-28.
Cleveland is yet to play a game at Truist Park in Atlanta, which opened in 2017. The Braves are scheduled to host Cleveland for the first time at Truist on 2024-04-26.
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Post by chiyankee on Mar 30, 2024 10:15:07 GMT -5
The lineup for the Don Mattingly "Popcorn Game". Bernie hitting leadoff, RIP Ice Williams.
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Post by inger on Mar 30, 2024 10:23:35 GMT -5
The lineup for the Don Mattingly "Popcorn Game". Bernie hitting leadoff, RIP Ice Williams. Is that your own souvenir card? Were you there? …
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 30, 2024 10:38:18 GMT -5
The lineup for the Don Mattingly "Popcorn Game". Bernie hitting leadoff, RIP Ice Williams. That was a good hitting team, except for Stanky. I had such high hopes for Sam Militello. Pat Kelly looked like a future star. Decided to look up Stanky's numbers that year and they were better than I remembered: .268/.338/.348/.685.
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Mar 30, 2024 10:48:31 GMT -5
The lineup for the Don Mattingly "Popcorn Game". Bernie hitting leadoff, RIP Ice Williams. I have a golfing buddy whose son played AAA with Gerald Williams. He said he was one of the nicest guy's you'd ever meet. IIRC, he was also good friends with Jeter.
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Post by chiyankee on Mar 30, 2024 10:50:56 GMT -5
The lineup for the Don Mattingly "Popcorn Game". Bernie hitting leadoff, RIP Ice Williams. Is that your own souvenir card? Were you there? … No, some guy posted it on Twitter. I was living with my fiancee at the time in PA, sadly we never did make it to the altar.
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 30, 2024 11:46:58 GMT -5
The lineup for the Don Mattingly "Popcorn Game". Bernie hitting leadoff, RIP Ice Williams. I have a golfing buddy whose son played AAA with Gerald Williams. He said he was one of the nicest guy's you'd ever meet. IIRC, he was also good friends with Jeter. Gerald Williams was Derek Jeter's best friend. Incidentally, Gerald Williams was born in New Orleans and attended high school in Reserve, Louisiana, where my father-in-law used to work. Williams would attend college in Grambling, Louisiana, at Grambling State University, alma mater of Tommie Agee, Ralph Garr, Cleon Jones, Johnny Jeter, Charlie Spikes, Lenny Webster, and Lynn McGlothen.
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Post by chiyankee on Mar 30, 2024 12:32:12 GMT -5
Check out this ballpark.
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Post by azbob643 on Mar 30, 2024 12:34:33 GMT -5
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Post by azbob643 on Mar 30, 2024 12:46:58 GMT -5
Nowhere near as colorful (a gloomy day), but this is a similar view of Doubleday Field (Cooperstown)...
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Post by fwclipper51 on Mar 30, 2024 13:06:00 GMT -5
April 3, 1919-One of the most bizarre off-the-field spring training incidents in New York Yankees team history takes place in Jacksonville, Florida. Yankees OF Ping Bodie competes against an Ostrich named "Percy" in a spaghetti-eating contest! Bodie wins the eating competition, when Percy passes out after his 11th plate of pasta.
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Post by inger on Mar 30, 2024 17:54:08 GMT -5
April 3, 1919-One of the most bizarre off-the-field spring training incidents in New York Yankees team history takes place in Jacksonville, Florida. Yankees OF Ping Bodie competes against an Ostrich named "Percy" in a spaghetti-eating contest! Bodie wins the eating competition, when Percy passes out after his 11th plate of pasta. Think of the ostrich gas afterward… 🤓 Actually, pity Bodie’s room mate. He ate his 11 plates, too…
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Post by bomberhojoe on Mar 30, 2024 19:08:22 GMT -5
Before gameYankees 103-50 A’s 50-103 A's winYankees 103-51 A’s 51-103 If Yankees had wonYankees 104-50 A’s 50-104 Gulp. Mea Culpa. I just wanted you to show your work… 🤓 No problem. I am so seldom right, I had to "show my work" to be sure.
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Post by inger on Mar 30, 2024 22:01:08 GMT -5
On 28-Apr-1973, in his 3rd start in the majors, Dick Ruthven held the Big Red Machine to a single hit and no score, but developed soreness during the course of the outing. Steve Carlton knew certain weight-lifting exercises that might help the rookie and so arranged for delivery to Ruthven a complete weight-lifting set a his house the next day. Proof that Carlton may have had a heart after all… ❤️
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