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Post by kaybli on Mar 23, 2023 19:10:20 GMT -5
Got back from the Doctor today = Not good news.
And Fungus cases growing in the World
AND: We are NOT going to the 2023 WS with Donaldson, Hicks, Cash, Boone, etc.
BOY, today I am depressed!!!
Was really hoping/praying that I would get to see the Yanks once more time in the WS. Heck maybe it might be 2024???
Still depressed.
Sorry about your doctors report dome. Keep your head up. Wishing you the best! |
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Post by inger on Mar 24, 2023 8:51:58 GMT -5
“Look at him (Bobby Richardson). He doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, he doesn't chew, he doesn't stay out late and he still can't hit .250." - Stengel, Casey….
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Post by inger on Mar 24, 2023 8:55:58 GMT -5
The Sporting News listed "the catch" made by Bobby Richardson during the 1962 World Series at #13 of Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments. Willie McCovey vividly recalled the historic out saying, "I broke in with a four-for-four my rookie year against a Hall of Fame pitcher, Robin Roberts. I hit more grand slams [Top 1,000] than anybody in National League history. I hit more home runs than any lefthanded hitter in the National League. But that out is what many people remember about me.... I would rather be remembered as the guy who hit the ball six inches over Bobby Richardson's head."…
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Post by inger on Mar 24, 2023 8:58:07 GMT -5
In a nutshell, Ralph Terry, along with his skipper Ralph Houk, decided to pitch to Willie McCovey after a brief meeting on the mound. The tying run was on third base. The winning run was on second base. McCovey had just tripled in his previous at-bat and hit a home run off Terry during Game 2. Orlando Cepeda, whom Terry had already struck out twice in the game, was waiting in the on-deck circle. McCovey smashed the first pitch Terry served up foul, down the right field line. Pitch number two, McCovey whacked a screaming liner that Bobby caught with no effort prompting him to say, "People often suggest that I was out of position on that play, but McCovey hit two hard ground balls to me earlier in the Series, so I played where I thought he would hit the ball." A few feet higher or defensively placed elsewhere and the San Francisco Giants would have won the Series...
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Post by inger on Mar 24, 2023 9:00:40 GMT -5
Bobby Richardson struck out only 243 times during his entire 12-year career. He struck out less than 5% of his plate appearances and finished in the top three for at-bats per strikeouts eight times in the American League (including first overall in 1964, 1965 & 1966).
Bobby Richardson played in 1,412 regular season baseball games and 36 World Series games (including a record 30 consecutive World Series games) - and in EXACTLY one game, he struck out three times. On October 2, 1963, Sandy Koufax struck him out three times during Game 1 of the 1963 World Series, the first and only time Richardson had more than two-strikeouts in any big league game he ever played...
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Post by inger on Mar 24, 2023 9:02:21 GMT -5
Bobby Richardson made the all star team in each of the 8 seasons during which he was the starting second baseman for the Yankees…
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Post by inger on Mar 24, 2023 9:21:15 GMT -5
When Tony Kubek won the 1957 American League Rookie of the Year, he had only played shortstop in forty-one games that season (Tony also had 38 games played at third base, 31 games in left field, 22 games in center field, and one at second base)…
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Post by inger on Mar 24, 2023 9:24:51 GMT -5
Tony Kubek was not know for his HR hitting, but on 10-3-65 he became the first Yankee to homer in his final MLB at bat…
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Post by inger on Mar 24, 2023 12:15:22 GMT -5
“In the second game of the 1962 World Series at Candlestick Park, Clete Boyer of the Yankees hit a sharp line drive to right-center field. 'As the ball left the bat,' he recollected, 'I said to myself two things. The first thing I said was, 'Hello double!' The second thing I said was, 'Oh shit, he's (Willie Mays) out there.'"
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Post by inger on Mar 24, 2023 12:17:49 GMT -5
Clete Boyer won the Gold Glove Award at third base in 1969, the first time a player from the Atlanta Braves earned the honor at the hot corner (and the last until Terry Pendleton won again twenty years later). Ken Boyer, one of Clete's big-league brothers (Cloyd Boyer was the third) had won the same exact award five times making them the first siblings in major league history to each win a Gold Glove.
Other family pairs to win Gold Gloves are brothers; Sandy Alomar, Jr. (Gold Glove Catcher) & Roberto Alomar (Gold Glove Second Baseman), and Bengie Molina & Yadier Molina (Gold Glove Catchers). Fathers and sons who won; Bobby Bonds & Barry Bonds (Gold Glove Outfielders), and Bob Boone (Gold Glove Catcher) & Bret Boone (Gold Glove Second Baseman).
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Post by inger on Mar 24, 2023 12:18:59 GMT -5
On October 15, 1964, during Game 7 of the 1964 World Series, Clete Boyer hit a home run off Bob Gibson in the 9th inning. The Yankees were trailing the Cardinals 3-7 and the homer helped, but Ken Boyer had already homered in the 7th inning, off Steve Hamilton, to help put the game out of reach. The brothers were the first in history to hit home runs in the same World Series game...
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Post by inger on Mar 24, 2023 12:21:36 GMT -5
Clete Boyer made his MLB debut at 18…Signed by the KCAs and made his first appearance in MLB ten days later…
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Post by inger on Mar 24, 2023 12:28:08 GMT -5
Jesus Alou would have been 81 today. He’s gotten more play on this thread than he got in his career…
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 24, 2023 16:03:00 GMT -5
When Tony Kubek won the 1957 American League Rookie of the Year, he had only played shortstop in forty-one games that season (Tony also had 38 games played at third base, 31 games in left field, 22 games in center field, and one at second base)… Kubek was enormously talented. Casey Stengel always insisted that he was one of the most skilled players he had ever managed. He really only had five healthy seasons before a spinal injury he sustained playing touch football while doing National Guard duty seriously diminished his skills. He was an All Star in three of those seasons. His constant shifting of position under Stengel probably cost him another All Star berth or two. I always thought Tony was an excellent, no-BS broadcaster, but as a player he was known for being very tight-lipped. He tried to avoid interviews whenever possible. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 24, 2023 16:07:46 GMT -5
Tony Kubek was not know for his HR hitting, but on 10-3-65 he became the first Yankee to homer in his final MLB at bat… First I heard that one, Inger. I recall in his rookie season (he was ROY) of 1957, in the first World Series I clearly remember, Kubek hit two HRs in his first game in his hometown of Milwaukee. I also remember when Kubek came back from military service in 1962, he hit a HR in his first game back and the home plate umpire shook his hand when he crossed the plate! He didn't hit many, but he had his moments. |
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