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Post by gocav76 on Jan 2, 2008 12:40:23 GMT -6
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Post by Scout on Jan 2, 2008 14:31:39 GMT -6
Those were the great days of baseball weren't they? Sliding into base with your razor sharpened cleats aimed for the second baseman's head...spitting tobacco juice into your opponent's eye. Catching a screaming line drive with no glove..Nobody whined about a muscle crap or that their back hurt like these steroid pumped babies of today. twas a manly game. Thanks gocav, you made me wax nostalgic.
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Post by crzhrs on Jan 3, 2008 7:52:38 GMT -6
And then there was Jimmy Piersall who use to throw handfuls of soil in the air as he took a lead off a base. He also ran backwards around the bases after hitting a home run.
Teddy Baseball use to spit at sports writers rounding the bases after a home run.
Babe Ruth giving it to the Chicago Cubs bench after hitting his famous "pointing" to the fences home run during the World Series.
Ah yes . . . the good ol' days . . .
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Post by Scout on Jan 3, 2008 10:46:26 GMT -6
I actually had dinner with Piersall years ago and at one point went out drinking with Whitey Ford and Joe Pepitone. Wouldn't take a million dollars for those experiences!
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Post by harpskiddie on Jan 3, 2008 11:34:45 GMT -6
Was the 19th Kansas actually made up of NAs? I'll admit that I'm not the best read "student" of this regiment, which was almost along for the Washita and which did participate in the campaign after that, but I'll be danged if I can find any reference in the material I have as to NAs making up the greater, or any, portion of this regiment.
Does anyone know where the "legend" of this Custer vs The Indians baseball game arose? I can find a reference to Fort Sill being founded in January 1869, and a couple of ball games being played there while this was going on, but nothing about NAs.
From the journal of David Spotts, 30 January 1869:
"The baseball game was almost a fizzle as the balls were soon knocked to pieces and they had only two, but when the game was called off Company E had 3 runs to L's 2 and L's time to go to the bat. I think this will probably end the ball games, and horse racing is all the talk. I do not know when the first race will come off."
Spotts was a private of Company L, 19th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry.
Gordie MC
PS Yogi Berra once told me to &*@% off...........
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Post by Diane Merkel on Jan 3, 2008 18:43:13 GMT -6
I actually had dinner with Piersall years ago and at one point went out drinking with Whitey Ford and Joe Pepitone. Wouldn't take a million dollars for those experiences! Joe Pepitone!?! I had the biggest crush on him when I was a little girl. The Yanks were the greatest of the day.
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Post by harpskiddie on Jan 3, 2008 22:42:29 GMT -6
Diane:
If you saw my old passport photo, circa 1992, you would wonder how and why Chuck posed for it. No joke. If I knew how to scan and Email photos, I would send it to you, and you'd both freak out.
Gordie MC
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Post by Diane Merkel on Jan 3, 2008 22:58:04 GMT -6
I have great taste in men! ;D
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Post by Scout on Jan 4, 2008 10:59:32 GMT -6
Time for a scout rant. Subject: Roger Clemens
Does anyone believe this guy? If he was injected with steroids he "wasn't aware of it." Yea, and monkeys might fly out of my....
Don't all baseball players get better in their forties? Don't they throw harder and faster? Can't you hit the ball further in your forties? What a load of crap. At least Pettitte stepped up to the plate and admitted it. Clemens has the making of another Pete Rose...denying something he did for the next 20 years. Just admit it and get on with whatever the consequences are.
I hear the Yankees trainer is suing Clemens. Now the whole thing will play out in the court room, just where Clemens can't afford for it to be. A classless act.
Boy, I feel better now....
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Post by crzhrs on Jan 4, 2008 11:59:42 GMT -6
Clemens now states he was "shot up" with Vitamin B12 and some legal pain killer only. Of course he can always say I did not KNOWINGLY take steroids like all the other liars.
He will be on 60 MINUTES interviewed by Mike Wallace (that's where his B12 claim is from)
I use to think highly of this guy, but once he started selling his services to the highest bidder and getting special treatment from teams--like not traveling on road games and taking time off for his kids--I changed my mind.
Now with the steroid accusations and the standard I DID NOT TAKE STEROIDS (doesn't that sound familiar?) I say fry him (if guilty of course)
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Post by harpskiddie on Jan 4, 2008 12:03:12 GMT -6
Nice summation, Scout. Can you imagine Teddy Ballgame with muscles???
Gordie MC
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Post by gocav76 on Jan 4, 2008 12:35:34 GMT -6
When I was a young boy in the 1960's, every summer we visited my Grandparents in Illinois. My 1st cousin (who was about 15 years older) had shoe boxes full of baseball cards, which he had collected. As he was no longer living at home his mother used to let me and my brother have all we wanted. These cards were from the 40's and 50's! Anyway after we would grow tired of looking at them----we used them to make noise between the spokes of our bike wheels! My cousin still is a little upset after all these years!
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Post by Scout on Jan 4, 2008 12:46:34 GMT -6
Yea, I did the same thing gocav, but I used Don Mossi and Jerry Lumpe cards. There was one in every pack of Topps cards. I had 15 to 20 cards of each. No one within a 3 block area of my house ever saw Yankee cards, although Topps says they put all cards out equally. Another load of crap!
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Post by crzhrs on Jan 4, 2008 13:56:41 GMT -6
If only I had kept all those shoeboxes of baseball cards collected in the 50s/early 60s.
I'd be rich!
Did anyone ever play a game when you flung the cards against a wall? . . . the closest to the wall won and kept the others' cards. I always used my "doubles" or lesser known players. One time however, I threw a Willie Mays card by mistake! Thankfully I didn't lose it.
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Post by harpskiddie on Jan 4, 2008 14:32:32 GMT -6
horse:
We used to play that one all the time, with leaners not counting and having to be re-slung. We used to throw them much like you see guys trying to throw cards into a hat. One of our other favorites was flipping the cards so that they rolled over, and tried to match each other - heads or stats.
The nice thing about both games was that you could get more than two players involved, and if you had developed a fine touch for "closies" you could really clean up. There were guys nobody else would play, because it would be no contest .
Like many boys who grew up during the 40s and 50s, I cry when I think of the value of the cards I let float down the gutters or just lost somehow along the way. I used to be a Cleveland fan, and I would purposely throw away Yankees and Red Sox cards, or use them only for the games. Hey, anybody got Bob Chakales? I'll trade you Mantle, Dimaggio and Berra for him.
My biggest regret, however, was my comic books. A fellow up the street from me had to get rid of his comic books for some reason [his mom, but I don't know why], and he gave them to me - huge stacks, many still in black and white. My mom didn't care, cause I actually read most of them, and it kept me busy and out of trouble. I probably had the first editions of every major comic published before 1953 - in some cases, the whole series.
We used to trade all the time, and it was a common sight to see some kid pulling a wagon full of comic books on his way to one of his buddies' house to spend a Saturday morning or afternoon trading. Classics Illustrated were generally worth two ordinary comics. Sometimes paths would intersect and you'd see two kids trading on the street.
Memories................
Gordie MC
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