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Post by kaybli on Mar 25, 2023 8:56:51 GMT -5
On FB I'm friends with the daughter of Earl Torgeson. We grew up in the same town, but I didn't really know her as she was a few years ahead of me. I was friends with her late brother. She loves to post old pictures of her dad and other players, which is really fascinating. She was also Miss Florida in 1966. I once said it must of been cool for her dad to play on that 61' with Mantle, Berra, Ford, etc and she replied, it must have been cool for them to play with her dad. I liked that. I have a question for pipps and bearman if he's around. I was wondering if you have any recollections of Torgeson as a player? Earl Torgeson's daughter a savage. 
That's cool you are friends were her desousa!
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Post by inger on Mar 25, 2023 8:57:27 GMT -5
On FB I'm friends with the daughter of Earl Torgeson. We grew up in the same town, but I didn't really know her as she was a few years ahead of me. I was friends with her late brother. She loves to post old pictures of her dad and other players, which is really fascinating. She was also Miss Florida in 1966. I once said it must of been cool for her dad to play on that 61' with Mantle, Berra, Ford, etc and she replied, it must have been cool for them to play with her dad. I liked that. I have a question for pipps and bearman if he's around. I was wondering if you have any recollections of Torgeson as a player? I’d wager Torgeson’s daughter was well-rehearsed for that comeback line, having had other people mention the “Earl” in such diminutive terms. It’s a great comeback, by the way… 🤓 |
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Post by chiyankee on Mar 25, 2023 9:37:06 GMT -5
Anyone notice this thread is on page 666?  |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 25, 2023 9:56:46 GMT -5
Anyone notice this thread is on page 666? Surprised the injury thread isn't on page 666 seeing how cursed we are there. |
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Post by chiyankee on Mar 25, 2023 10:04:50 GMT -5
Anyone notice this thread is on page 666? Surprised the injury thread isn't on page 666 seeing how cursed we are there. Seems like we've had 666 injuries. |
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Post by desousa on Mar 25, 2023 10:44:27 GMT -5
On FB I'm friends with the daughter of Earl Torgeson. We grew up in the same town, but I didn't really know her as she was a few years ahead of me. I was friends with her late brother. She loves to post old pictures of her dad and other players, which is really fascinating. She was also Miss Florida in 1966. I once said it must of been cool for her dad to play on that 61' with Mantle, Berra, Ford, etc and she replied, it must have been cool for them to play with her dad. I liked that. I have a question for pipps and bearman if he's around. I was wondering if you have any recollections of Torgeson as a player? Earl Torgeson's daughter a savage.
That's cool you are friends were her desousa!
She's still a right handsome woman. |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 25, 2023 10:49:26 GMT -5
Earl Torgeson's daughter a savage.
That's cool you are friends were her desousa!
She's still a right handsome woman. Not as right handsome as Gloria.  |
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Post by desousa on Mar 25, 2023 10:58:29 GMT -5
She's still a right handsome woman. Not as right handsome as Gloria.  |
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Post by inger on Mar 25, 2023 11:00:37 GMT -5
Anyone notice this thread is on page 666? My employee number at AmeriGas was a six digit number that ended in 666. I was so proud of that… 😂 |
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Post by inger on Mar 25, 2023 11:01:01 GMT -5
Not as right handsome as Gloria. You old dog, you… |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 25, 2023 11:56:49 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... It would be unthinkable today to leave a tired, right-handed Ralph Terry on the mound in Game Seven with a 1-0 lead, two outs and runners on second and third and a left-handed slugger like Willie McCovey at bat. It just couldn't happen. Terry would have been gone certainly by the eighth inning at the latest. Plus just two years earlier, pitching in relief in the ninth inning of a tied Game Seven, Terry had allowed Bill Mazeroski's series-winning HR. Houk never seemed to seriously consider taking him out. It's well known that the only reason Matty Alou did not score the tying run on Willie Mays' double was that Roger Maris, running like a demon to his left, got to the ball so quickly and made a fast relay to Bobby Richardson, who had run out to mid-RF for the relay and then threw a perfect peg home. Maris' arm was bothering him, but the Yanks were able to conceal it with great relay work from Richardson. The wind was blowing in at gale force throughout that game. Tom Tresh, playing LF, actually called for a fly ball that he wound up catching on the infield dirt. He had also made a spectacular catch in the corner in the seventh inning that saved another Giants run. That game was probably the most dramatic Game Seven in Yankee history. I know that Richardson caught the ball chest-high, but in watching it I could have sworn it was going to go over his head. Had it done so, the Giants would have won the World Series. Before the play, Kubek joked to Richardson that he hoped the ball wasn't hit to second because Richardson had already made a couple of errors in the Series. It was only a joke -- they were great friends -- but it did make Willie Mays laugh. Also the second base umpire asked Bobby before the play that if he caught the final out, could he give him his cap as a souvenir. Which Richardson did after the out. There was a lot of levity on the field while I was sweating blood watching on TV. Fantastic memories, Pipps! These recollections make me feel like I was watching with you. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 25, 2023 14:03:46 GMT -5
On FB I'm friends with the daughter of Earl Torgeson. We grew up in the same town, but I didn't really know her as she was a few years ahead of me. I was friends with her late brother. She loves to post old pictures of her dad and other players, which is really fascinating. She was also Miss Florida in 1966. I once said it must of been cool for her dad to play on that 61' with Mantle, Berra, Ford, etc and she replied, it must have been cool for them to play with her dad. I liked that. I have a question for pipps and bearman if he's around. I was wondering if you have any recollections of Torgeson as a player? That is great stuff Matt. You've done a bit of getting around. Miss Florida of 1966 still gets you coolness points. She obviously got her looks from her mother, based on my remembrance of Earl Torgeson as a chubby-faced bespectacled guy. I do remember him mainly with the White Sox as a first baseman who was normally backing up somebody, whether an old Ray Boone or Ted Kluszewski or a young Norm Cash. I remember him being on the 59 Go-Go Sox AL champions and playing in the World Series. I know I had his baseball card that year. His best years were with the Boston Braves before I was following baseball. He is one of the least-remembered players on the 1961 Yankees -- the Yanks picked him up at mid-season after he was released by the White Sox to have another lefty bat on the bench, but he didn't play very much and they cut him from the roster before September 1 and made him a coach because Ralph Houk valued his experience and knowledge and the fact that his sense of humor made him popular with the players. That team recycled several veterans as depth pieces who today are barely recalled as being Yankees -- Torgeson, Joe DeMaestri, Bob Hale, Billy Gardner -- but they all chipped in. Ralph Houk recalled all of them fondly in the book "Season Of Glory" written by Robert Creamer (who wrote the best Babe Ruth biography.) Before I kicked myself off of Facebook and all social media a few years ago, I was friends with a few people who I did not actually know in real life but got into online chats with because of common interests. One was Dee Dee Sperling of the singing duo Dick and Dee Dee who nobody remembers today (we had a connection at See's Candy in LA and I bought her very interesting book on rock and roll touring in the 60s) and the other was the daughter of two members of the even less remembered one-hit wonder group Shades of Blue ("Oh How Happy" was their big hit in 1966) who saw a YouTube comment I had made and was happy I could direct her to a record dealer who had some hard-to-find copies of songs her parents had made. It was all fun and I loved the stories they had about the music industry at that time. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 25, 2023 14:09:39 GMT -5
It would be unthinkable today to leave a tired, right-handed Ralph Terry on the mound in Game Seven with a 1-0 lead, two outs and runners on second and third and a left-handed slugger like Willie McCovey at bat. It just couldn't happen. Terry would have been gone certainly by the eighth inning at the latest. Plus just two years earlier, pitching in relief in the ninth inning of a tied Game Seven, Terry had allowed Bill Mazeroski's series-winning HR. Houk never seemed to seriously consider taking him out. It's well known that the only reason Matty Alou did not score the tying run on Willie Mays' double was that Roger Maris, running like a demon to his left, got to the ball so quickly and made a fast relay to Bobby Richardson, who had run out to mid-RF for the relay and then threw a perfect peg home. Maris' arm was bothering him, but the Yanks were able to conceal it with great relay work from Richardson. The wind was blowing in at gale force throughout that game. Tom Tresh, playing LF, actually called for a fly ball that he wound up catching on the infield dirt. He had also made a spectacular catch in the corner in the seventh inning that saved another Giants run. That game was probably the most dramatic Game Seven in Yankee history. I know that Richardson caught the ball chest-high, but in watching it I could have sworn it was going to go over his head. Had it done so, the Giants would have won the World Series. Before the play, Kubek joked to Richardson that he hoped the ball wasn't hit to second because Richardson had already made a couple of errors in the Series. It was only a joke -- they were great friends -- but it did make Willie Mays laugh. Also the second base umpire asked Bobby before the play that if he caught the final out, could he give him his cap as a souvenir. Which Richardson did after the out. There was a lot of levity on the field while I was sweating blood watching on TV. Fantastic memories, Pipps! These recollections make me feel like I was watching with you. Thanks Rizz. I guess it's the old story that at some point you remember things from 60 years ago more precisely than things from 60 days ago. But that game in particular made a very deep impression and really was one of the all-time great Yankee victories over an insanely talented Giants' team (Mays, McCovey, Marichal, Cepeda and Perry, just to name the HOFers.) I think on my deathbed I might see McCovey drilling that ball at Richardson. |
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Post by inger on Mar 25, 2023 15:33:40 GMT -5
There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the human language and this is the best I could come up with for a post…
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Post by inger on Mar 25, 2023 15:37:19 GMT -5
William “Moose” Skowron
“Moose could flat-out hit ... for average, and he had real power. People used to look at our lineup and concentrate on the guys in the middle of the order. Moose might have been batting sixth or seventh, but he made our lineup deep and more dangerous. You didn't want to give him too much around the plate. He was like Yogi Berra, he could hit bad pitches out and beat you." - Mantle, Mickey…
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