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Post by chiyankee on May 29, 2024 22:26:08 GMT -5
This is one of favorite all time favorite baseball highlights. What an amazing throw.
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Post by inger on May 30, 2024 4:20:48 GMT -5
This is one of favorite all time favorite baseball highlights. What an amazing throw. [b I also agree that he was from another planet. What an arm!… |
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Post by Max on May 30, 2024 12:20:21 GMT -5
Clemente was an excellent player. The Pirates drafted him in the Rule 5 Draft from the Brooklyn Dodgers. I don't know for sure, but I doubt if there was a better player than him that was ever drafted via the Rule 5 Draft.
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Post by inger on May 30, 2024 12:39:58 GMT -5
KELLY GRUBER Gruber didn’t marry a hot chick. His mother was a hot chick, though. She was Gloria (Hunt) King, a former Miss Texas. Gruber would be known as the player completing the second ever World Series triple play had the current system of replays. assets1.sportsnet.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/WS2.jpg… |
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Post by inger on May 30, 2024 12:43:20 GMT -5
Clemente was an excellent player. The Pirates drafted him in the Rule 5 Draft from the Brooklyn Dodgers. I don't know for sure, but I doubt if there was a better player than him that was ever drafted via the Rule 5 Draft. It would have to be another Hall of Famer and the Rule 5 wasn’t even around for most of them. I can’t think of anyone better… |
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Post by 1955nyyfan on May 30, 2024 12:44:41 GMT -5
This is one of favorite all time favorite baseball highlights. What an amazing throw. This vidio got me wondering so I looked it up. Clemente was 17 on the all time list of OFer assists. What's interesting is he is the first modern day player on the list. Most are from the early 1900's including Speaker and Cobb who are 1 and 2. Not sure why OF assists were more common then, perhaps one of you old guys who saw them play could comment?  |
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Post by inger on May 30, 2024 13:10:10 GMT -5
This is one of favorite all time favorite baseball highlights. What an amazing throw. This vidio got me wondering so I looked it up. Clemente was 17 on the all time list of OFer assists. What's interesting is he is the first modern day player on the list. Most are from the early 1900's including Speaker and Cobb who are 1 and 2. Not sure why OF assists were more common then, perhaps one of you old guys who saw them play could comment? I’m not old enough to have seen it, but: Catchers at one point would compile a league average CS of nearly 40%. The value of an out was unknown, so runners ran with more aplomb than they do today. And that included when the were advancing on hits as well. They didn’t have stats on outfielders arms, etc.. It almost makes you wonder how they ever scored any runs, but the reality was that between the normal hits and walks, the tiny gloves and the scoring of those day allowed so many players to reach base that the unearned runs piled up… |
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Post by inger on May 31, 2024 9:50:47 GMT -5
LEO DUROCHER
Was married to a pretty actress, Lorraine Day.
The Lip is the only manager to win 500+ with three teams in one league.
Durocher won 738 w/BRO; 637 w/NYG; & 535 w/CHC. When he retired, his total of 2,008 wins was second only to John McGraw’s 2,763 in NL wins. Durocher has since been passed in NL W’s by Walter Alston & Bobby Cox. Durocher played for CIN 1930-33.
Durocher on TV: - Hosted the TV series “Double Play” with his wife in 1953.
- Was a mystery guest on “What's My Line” on 31-May-1951.*
- Was himself on “The Beverly Hillbillies” on 10-Apr-1963.
- Was himself on “Mr. Ed” on 29-Sep-1963.
- Was himself on “The Munsters” on 08-Apr-1965.
- Etc.
*His wife Laraine Day was on the celebrity panel that day
Durocher wore #7 for NYY in 1929, the first season the team put numbers on all uniforms, the first team to do so. Despite our association of the number 7 to Mantle, Leo was the first to wear it…
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Post by inger on May 31, 2024 9:54:20 GMT -5
Ray Knight
Married to Nancy Lopez, who we will call more “well known” than “hot”
Playing for NYM, Knight was named the 1986 WS MVP on 27-Oct then essentially released on 12‑Nov‑1986…
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Post by azbob643 on May 31, 2024 10:01:21 GMT -5
Ray Knight Married to Billy Jean King, ?????? |
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Post by 1955nyyfan on May 31, 2024 10:26:06 GMT -5
Ray Knight Married to Billy Jean King, ?????? Nancy Lopez |
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Post by inger on May 31, 2024 10:33:29 GMT -5
Shitz… tennis players. They all look alike. Thanks for the correction. Glad I didn’t post the bio… 😂 |
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Post by chiyankee on May 31, 2024 10:38:48 GMT -5
Shitz… tennis players. They all look alike. Thanks for the correction. Glad I didn’t post the bio… 😂 Or golfers.  |
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Post by inger on May 31, 2024 10:44:01 GMT -5
I changed it… my brain just slipped a gear when I posted… I knew better… |
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Post by inger on May 31, 2024 10:45:26 GMT -5
Shitz… tennis players. They all look alike. Thanks for the correction. Glad I didn’t post the bio… 😂 Or golfers. I can’t get interested in pro golf anymore. The characters are so bland… |
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