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Napoleon
04-01-13, 06:21 AM
Go Tribe!
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With all due respect, Nappy, 75 years old and still going strong:
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And we still don't who's in RF...oh wait who's on first. :D
And yes, GO TRIBE (and take the Clowns with you). :gomer: GO BUMS! Play like the $2B it cost to buy your sorry asses. :saywhat:
-Kevin
After living 12 years in the US I never got the fascination with baseball or football. Other than a great excuse for drinking beer... :gomer:
devilmaster
04-01-13, 10:41 AM
Go Tigers!
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Go Tigers!
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I wore my Brooklyn sweater yesterday in homage. But of course, you can't have opening day w/o the hope for the lost.
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:D
-Kevin
And I can't wait for this to come out:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453562/
42 :thumbup:
Oh, and Elmo is all in for this:
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/03/26/lehigh-valley-iron-pigs-introduce-urinal-gaming/
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-Kevin
After living 12 years in the US I never got the fascination with baseball or football. Other than a great excuse for drinking beer... :gomer:
After living here since my birth, I agree, and you can add basketball to that. Though it is nice to go to a baseball game on a warm summer afternoon. And seeing it at the little league level through the eyes of a child is wonderful.
Napoleon
04-01-13, 01:06 PM
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When I was a kid there was a family my family hung out with at the swim club whose kids were around the age of my brother and me. Father was named George Shuba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Shuba). I knew he played professional baseball but by then he was working at the post office.
He was with the Dodger’s farm team in Montreal when they brought Robinson in. He meet him at home plate when Robinson got his first homer in the Dodger's farm system (see below, the wiki entry is wrong about them being on differant teams), went on to play 7 seasons with the Dodgers, had a pinch hit World Series home run against the Yankees (that I actually knew about as a kid) and is the only guy alive from the 1955 World Series champions.
And I never asked him squat about his career.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FEf-9VMB5Rw/THNh0APolDI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/86KCoDF1tHc/s1600/RoyaldebutSN.jpg
From L, Robinson, Shuba, Pee Wee Reese and Roy Campenella
http://www.sbcgallery.com/individual/Enlarged/489%20Robinson%20Reese%20Campanella.JPG
Al Czervik
04-01-13, 01:09 PM
After living 12 years in the US I never got the fascination with baseball or football. Other than a great excuse for drinking beer... :gomer:
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Napoleon
04-01-13, 02:00 PM
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PS, check out this comment thread on a Dodger's fan site. It follows a clip of the movie and some of them are bitching about not including Shuba and the background of that picture of the handshake.
http://www.dodgersblueheaven.com/2012/09/just-awesome-jackie-robinson-movie.html
One of the first books I read as a grasshopper was a book on Jackie. He was an amazing athlete @ UCLA...kinda like Hondo, Lucas, etc. around here in the 60s. Multi-sport athletes. And Larry Doby doesn't get the cred he deserves either.
Also, one of my other fave movies (and book) is Eight Men Out. Ironically, Kenesaw 'Mountain' Landis cleaned up that mess, but refused to allow negroes into the MLB. :saywhat:
I may need to break out Ken Burns' Baseball seriers tonight after the Bums beat the Gints. :D
-Kevin
And, BTW:
Let's play two.
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-Kevin
TravelGal
04-01-13, 03:36 PM
And, BTW:
Let's play two.
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-Kevin
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A great time of year. Hockey gearing up for the playoffs and baseball starting, not to mention F1 starting up as well. With CC gone and the MLB network now, my baseball interest is growing deeper.
Go Cubs...working on the 2nd century.
42. Just. Go. See. It. Harrison Ford's acting best since Regarding Henry. It's the best and worst of America. Think Mississippi Burning and Field Field of Dreams all rolled into one movie. As I watched it this afternoon, I could only think Ty Cobb would have killed Jackie in on the field. :saywhat:
Oh, and heal fast Grienke. Heal fast.
-Kevin
42. Just. Go. See. It. Harrison Ford's acting best since Regarding Henry. It's the best and worst of America. Think Mississippi Burning and Field Field of Dreams all rolled into one movie. As I watched it this afternoon, I could only think Ty Cobb would have killed Jackie in on the field. :saywhat:
Oh, and heal fast Grienke. Heal fast.
-Kevin
Saw it too...really good movie. I enjoyed the CGI of Ebbetts Field and the Polo Grounds.
Saw it too...really good movie. I enjoyed the CGI of Ebbetts Field and the Polo Grounds.
I have a model of Ebbetts Field in our Xmas village collection. :thumbup: Best pure baseball movie since Eight Men Out, IMO.
-Kevin
I have a model of Ebbetts Field in our Xmas village collection. :thumbup: Best pure baseball movie since Eight Men Out, IMO.
-Kevin
That would be cool. I finished off the basement a couple years ago, in the baseball part are some old photos of Ebbetts & the Polo Grounds. I wish I could have seen some games their.
Was it the old old Polo grounds that had no outfield fences and cars parked in the outfield?
A 375 foot poke was in play and may be under the Model T.....
http://mets360.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Polo-Grounds.jpg
Was it the old old Polo grounds that had no outfield fences and cars parked in the outfield?
A 375 foot poke was in play and may be under the Model T.....
No mention of it on the Wiki. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polo_Grounds)
Appears unlikely. I also don't recall any mention of in the baseball history stuff I've read or documentaries I've watched.
-Kevin
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