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Post by inger on Aug 9, 2024 7:32:40 GMT -5
Mickey Mantle
The water tower in his hometown sports a painted with version of his retired uniform number. (Photo to follow via Kaybli-gram).
His future manager said of him before his first major league game, “He has more speed than any slugger I’ve ever seen and more slug than any other speedster.”…
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Post by kaybli on Aug 9, 2024 8:09:49 GMT -5
Mickey Mantle The water tower in his hometown sports a painted with version of his retired uniform number. (Photo to follow via Kaybli-gram). His future manager said of him before his first major league game, “He has more speed than any slugger I’ve ever seen and more slug than any other speedster.”… Here's the pic of the water tower:
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 9, 2024 9:12:02 GMT -5
Mickey Mantle The water tower in his hometown sports a painted with version of his retired uniform number. (Photo to follow via Kaybli-gram). His future manager said of him before his first major league game, “He has more speed than any slugger I’ve ever seen and more slug than any other speedster.”… Water Tower Power!!!  |
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Post by inger on Aug 9, 2024 13:01:10 GMT -5
Mickey Mantle The water tower in his hometown sports a painted with version of his retired uniform number. (Photo to follow via Kaybli-gram). His future manager said of him before his first major league game, “He has more speed than any slugger I’ve ever seen and more slug than any other speedster.”… Here's the pic of the water tower:
Thank you sir. I didn’t mention the pinstripes, but they’re cool, too… |
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Post by inger on Aug 9, 2024 13:08:39 GMT -5
Mickey Mantle The water tower in his hometown sports a painted with version of his retired uniform number. (Photo to follow via Kaybli-gram). His future manager said of him before his first major league game, “He has more speed than any slugger I’ve ever seen and more slug than any other speedster.”… Here's the pic of the water tower:
Under the Route 66 they should paint birthplace of Mickey Mantle. I showed the picture to Ruthie and she didn’t “get it”… |
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Post by inger on Aug 10, 2024 10:48:40 GMT -5
Tris Speaker and Craig Biggio are the only two 20th century players with 50+ doubles and 50+ steals in the same season. Speaker on 1912 and Biggio in 1998…
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Post by inger on Aug 10, 2024 14:03:13 GMT -5
Not only is Tris Speaker the only OF to ever turn an unassisted double play in a World Series, he was also standing the closest to Wambsganss when he turned his triple play! …
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Post by fwclipper51 on Aug 10, 2024 15:03:26 GMT -5
August 14, 1942-The New York Yankees would turn an MLB-record 7-double plays in an 11-2 win over the Philadelphia A’s. Yankees Catcher Bill Dickey guns down 2 A’s runners following called 3rd strikes; 3 are started by the DP combo of Phil Rizzuto and Joe Gordon, Reliever Johnny Murphy triggers another and 3B Red Rolfe initiates another one. The 7 DPs give the Yankees 150 on the year; they'll finish with 190 DPs for the 1942 AL season, just missing the (since surpassed) MLB mark they set in the 1941 AL season with 194.
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Post by inger on Aug 11, 2024 6:04:34 GMT -5
August 14, 1942-The New York Yankees would turn an MLB-record 7-double plays in an 11-2 win over the Philadelphia A’s. Yankees Catcher Bill Dickey guns down 2 A’s runners following called 3rd strikes; 3 are started by the DP combo of Phil Rizzuto and Joe Gordon, Reliever Johnny Murphy triggers another and 3B Red Rolfe initiates another one. The 7 DPs give the Yankees 150 on the year; they'll finish with 190 DPs for the 1942 AL season, just missing the (since surpassed) MLB mark they set in the 1941 AL season with 194. Now, they’d seemingly rather hit into them than turn them… |
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Post by inger on Aug 11, 2024 6:14:35 GMT -5
MONTE IRVIN 25-Feb-1919 in Haleburg. AL; graduated from Orange HS in Orange NJ (Newark Suburb) & attended Lincoln University in the city of the same name in PA.* In the 1st G of the 1951 WS, NYG’s Irvin stole home off Allie Reynolds & Yogi Berra, scoring the 2nd R of a 5-2 W over NYY. Imagine having the guts to steal home in the first inning of your first-ever World Series contest!… *Pipps would be quite familiar with Lincoln U., I’m sure. pippsheadache |
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Post by inger on Aug 11, 2024 6:30:39 GMT -5
WILLIE WELLS
Earning the nickname “El Diablo”, his range was so great and his hands so fast that opponents, fans & teammates thought he was using black magic, first attributed to him when he played in Mexico.
Wells was beaned in a playoff G & knocked unconscious. Against medical advice, he played the next day, but with a construction helmet taped to his head. He is now credited with being the first MLB player to wear a batting helmet.
The former narrative, and perhaps more accurate one was that Tony Cuccinello experimented with protective head gear in 1938, and that batting helmets were popularized in the ‘50’s.
Wells was twice MVP of the Cuban League.
Wells and Martin Dihigo are the only two players to be inducted into the American, Cuban and Mexican Baseball Halls of Fame.
As were many players of the negro leagues, Willie Wells play was advertised in grandiose terms. We’ll never know the exact truth of how good he was…
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Post by inger on Aug 11, 2024 6:33:43 GMT -5
ROSS YOUNGS
The youngest HOF player to die, Youngs was done in by a fatal kidney disease in the prime of his baseball career. He was only 30 years, 195 days old when he died in 1927…
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Post by inger on Aug 11, 2024 6:38:27 GMT -5
ANDY COOPER
Cooper pitched in the 1936 E-W ASG at 40 years old.
Cooper accounted for 69 career saves in the Negro Leagues, and is the career leader in that department…
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Post by fwclipper51 on Aug 11, 2024 13:25:49 GMT -5
Pretzel Logic?
August 1,1903-Philadelphia Athletics starter Rube Waddell no-hits the New York Highlanders, except for Shortstop Kid Elberfeld, who has 4 singles. These, plus a lavish 6 walks, down the A's by the score of 3-2. Waddell observes afterward, "If I would have walked him 4 times, I would have pitched a no-hitter."
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Post by inger on Aug 12, 2024 17:29:13 GMT -5
…….Washington Senators shortstop…….Cecil Travis…..
3 Time All-Star….1397 hits by age 27 when WW 2 started….Batted .359/218 hits in 1941 last season before enlisting…..327 lifetime batting average….
War injuries derailed him forever.
Whether…. Cecil Travis…..gets to Cooperstown or not……his sacrifices aren’t forgotten...
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