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Post by inger on Mar 5, 2023 18:22:47 GMT -5
Oops, just saw this question Rizz. Hmm, I'm drawing a blank on an Eddie Mayo look-alike. I'm not very good at that anyway. If you tell me, maybe I will see it. Virgil Trucks was the uncle of Butch Trucks, drummer for the Allman Brothers Band. Virgil Trucks 1959 Topps baseball card was one of my favorites. The two no-hitters are mentioned on the back. If Butch Trucks is Virgil Trucks uncle, and Butch Trucks is Derek Trucks uncle, what is Derek Trucks to Virgil Trucks? A Tedeschi Truck ? … |
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Post by inger on Mar 5, 2023 18:27:46 GMT -5
1980:
"What I did was stupid and I'll never do it again. I never wanted this to happen and I didn't know the consequences. Besides, I'd only scratched three balls that night and none of them did anything." - Rick Honeycutt
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Post by inger on Mar 5, 2023 18:30:04 GMT -5
On September 30, 1980, Bill Kunkel ejected Mariners' pitcher Rick Honeycutt for doctoring baseballs. Honeycutt, who was fined $250 and suspended for ten days, was wearing a thumbtack under a band-aid on his glove hand...
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 5, 2023 18:34:43 GMT -5
Oops, just saw this question Rizz. Hmm, I'm drawing a blank on an Eddie Mayo look-alike. I'm not very good at that anyway. If you tell me, maybe I will see it. Virgil Trucks was the uncle of Butch Trucks, drummer for the Allman Brothers Band. Virgil Trucks 1959 Topps baseball card was one of my favorites. The two no-hitters are mentioned on the back. If Butch Trucks is Virgil Trucks uncle, and Butch Trucks is Derek Trucks uncle, what is Derek Trucks to Virgil Trucks? His great-nephew. I have a couple of those. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 5, 2023 19:24:45 GMT -5
Well now that you say it I can see a resemblance. I looked at some of his old baseball cards to be sure. For whatever reason I was thinking in terms of former players. I wonder what Virgil thought of his nephew's band. Virgil once threw two no-hitters in a season. I can remember him late in his career with the Yankees. It's a great good old boy name for sure. I should have specified to limit the range of possibilities. Of course, this is only since Bader was traded to the Yankees and after he lost the locks. Without smiling, they are more dissimilar than watching the old video.    Sorry, first chance to respond today Rizz, but definitely in those photos there is a clear resemblance. Mayo looks like a slightly more menacing version of Bader. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 5, 2023 19:30:43 GMT -5
Oops, just saw this question Rizz. Hmm, I'm drawing a blank on an Eddie Mayo look-alike. I'm not very good at that anyway. If you tell me, maybe I will see it. Virgil Trucks was the uncle of Butch Trucks, drummer for the Allman Brothers Band. Virgil Trucks 1959 Topps baseball card was one of my favorites. The two no-hitters are mentioned on the back. If Butch Trucks is Virgil Trucks uncle, and Butch Trucks is Derek Trucks uncle, what is Derek Trucks to Virgil Trucks? I remember that card. It was just a head shot of Trucks, in the year they put players' autographs on the front. I also remember older cards of him from the early 50s that one of my uncles had where he was listed as Virgil "Fire" Trucks. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 5, 2023 19:53:56 GMT -5
Ron LeFlore, of the Montreal Expos, stole his sixty-second base on July 28th, 1980 during the seventh inning of a 5-4 win against the Cincinnati Reds, but was tagged out after stepping off the bag while trying to read the scoreboard that was noting the first stolen base occurrence one-hundred fifteen years earlier… Embarrassing moments… 😵💫 LeFlore had an even more embarrassing moment when he was arrested for non-payment of child support after attending the closing ceremonies for Tiger Stadium in 1999. Remember that TV movie they made about him, "One In A Million?" It starred LeVar Burton as Ron LeFlore. Billy Martin played himself in the film -- he was kind of a natural actor. On a much sadder note, in 2011 LeFlore had his right leg amputated at the knee because of arterial vascular disease. |
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Post by desousa on Mar 5, 2023 20:06:36 GMT -5
Virgil Trucks 1959 Topps baseball card was one of my favorites. The two no-hitters are mentioned on the back. If Butch Trucks is Virgil Trucks uncle, and Butch Trucks is Derek Trucks uncle, what is Derek Trucks to Virgil Trucks? I remember that card. It was just a head shot of Trucks, in the year they put players' autographs on the front. I also remember older cards of him from the early 50s that one of my uncles had where he was listed as Virgil "Fire" Trucks. What made the Yankee cards from that year was the bright red border. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 5, 2023 20:24:19 GMT -5
I remember that card. It was just a head shot of Trucks, in the year they put players' autographs on the front. I also remember older cards of him from the early 50s that one of my uncles had where he was listed as Virgil "Fire" Trucks. What made the Yankee cards from that year was the bright red border. I had forgotten about the color coordination of that year. I do remember Mantle was card number 10 because Ford Frick got his own card and he got number 1. Ticked me off. Also there was no Ted Williams card that year because The Splendid Splinter had signed a deal with Fleer, which produced a set of cards going through his career. I collected all of those -- I am thinking there were maybe 60 cards in the set, just guessing -- of course they disappeared long ago. I remember there was one showing Ted catching some huge fish -- like a marlin or a swordfish -- and another of him being sworn into the military. I loved the photography on the 57s, and I also liked the 61s. Both of those also had year by year stats, rather than just stats for the previous year along with career totals. I did not like the 1960s, with the divided panel. I think 62 was the last year I seriously collected them. Starting in 63 I began squandering my resources on records! |
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Post by desousa on Mar 5, 2023 20:26:50 GMT -5
Ron LeFlore, of the Montreal Expos, stole his sixty-second base on July 28th, 1980 during the seventh inning of a 5-4 win against the Cincinnati Reds, but was tagged out after stepping off the bag while trying to read the scoreboard that was noting the first stolen base occurrence one-hundred fifteen years earlier… Embarrassing moments… 😵💫 LeFlore had an even more embarrassing moment when he was arrested for non-payment of child support after attending the closing ceremonies for Tiger Stadium in 1999. Remember that TV movie they made about him, "One In A Million?" It starred LeVar Burton as Ron LeFlore. Billy Martin played himself in the film -- he was kind of a natural actor. On a much sadder note, in 2011 LeFlore had his right leg amputated at the knee because of arterial vascular disease. LeFlore certainly had an up and down life, but think that's what makes him so interesting. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 5, 2023 20:32:13 GMT -5
LeFlore had an even more embarrassing moment when he was arrested for non-payment of child support after attending the closing ceremonies for Tiger Stadium in 1999. Remember that TV movie they made about him, "One In A Million?" It starred LeVar Burton as Ron LeFlore. Billy Martin played himself in the film -- he was kind of a natural actor. On a much sadder note, in 2011 LeFlore had his right leg amputated at the knee because of arterial vascular disease. LeFlore certainly had an up and down life, but think that's what makes him so interesting. Oh for sure. I guess that's why they made a film about him. He falls, gets back up, falls again, gets back up again, over and over through his life. It's probably time for a sequel! |
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Post by inger on Mar 6, 2023 12:36:22 GMT -5
Pete Gray was born on this day in 1915. If not for WWII, we would have never heard of him. While I won’t advocate for war, the world is a better place because he was here.
Gray was born and died in Nantikote, PA, and lived to be 87…
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Post by kaybli on Mar 6, 2023 15:12:21 GMT -5
Cool, Bearman! Let’s dish out those stories. I’d love to hear them, and I’m sure I not the only one… I'll start with a Van Slyke one. Often after road games some of the relief pitchers such as Patterson, Kipper, Landrum, etc. would sit in the team hotel lobby and drink a beer. Typically I found that hotel security would not let fans into the lobbies of the team hotels but I was staying there so Bob invited me to join the group. The teams usually stayed at the nicest hotel closest to the ballpark. This time we were staying in downtown Los Angeles and it was about 11:00 P.M. Van Slyke and his wife and I think a child or two walked into the hotel and through the lobby to go to their room. A couple of the hotel workers politely asked Van Slyke for his autograph. He said no and kept on walking. Immediately his wife said, turn your ass around and sign those autographs. He immediately did what she said. I've got a picture of a group of us standing in front of Van Slyke's locker(he wasn't there at the time) at Three Rivers but I am not smart enough to know how to post it here. As a kid I loved baseball and dreamed of playing for the Yankee's but I wasn't worth a damn. Being able to walk out of the locker room and through the tunnel and onto the playing field was surreal.(This was in the morning before a night game so just a few player's were there). One of my favorite Leyland stories happened in Philadelphia. We were staying in a downtown Philadelphia hotel. We were leaving to eat supper at the Chart House. The team buses were waiting outside the hotel to take the team to the stadium. Leyland was waiting outside at the buses. I had met Jim several times but for sure he didn't remember me from Adam's house cat. I remarked to Jim that I was leaving the coaching to him that night. I'll never forget what he said: "I'll try not to F**K it up". Here are the pictures bearman sent me:
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Post by kaybli on Mar 6, 2023 15:15:30 GMT -5
I thought Pipps would get a kick out of this. It is a mini poster put out by the Beach Club. These were the bands that played there the last summer I worked at the beach. I was fortunate to see them all.
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Post by inger on Mar 6, 2023 15:30:05 GMT -5
I don’t have details about the play, but Roger Clemens had an unassisted pick-off of Joe Carter in the 6th inning of a game on 4/23/91. That’s one of those things that you can see once in a lifetime. I didn’t see it, but it is interesting…
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