Posted on 09/28/2014 2:17:18 PM PDT by fhayek
It’s the same ballpark where Babe Ruth played his rookie season in 1914. It’s the same hardball theater where Ted Williams homered on his final big league swing, Sept. 28, 1960. It’s where Mickey Mantle made his last out on the same date in 1968.
And on Sunday, it’s where Derek Sanderson Jeter will finish a 20-year major league career that defined a game and an era.
Cities, teams, ballparks, legends, dates. Everything connects in baseball. Degrees of separation are minimal. Ruth played with Lefty Gomez, who played with Early Wynn, who played with Tommy John, who played with Don Mattingly, who played with . . . Jeter.
And Teddy Ballgame played with Ike Delock, who played with Yaz, who played with Wade Boggs, who played with . . . Jeter.
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Given the very long and rich history of sport ($1 to Willard), in the tri-state, it's difficult to pick out one. I'll try though. :)
I think the man who most exemplified class was Lou Gehrig. If there was any scandal or tawdriness associated with the "Iron Horse", I would be hughly stuned. Babe Ruth certainly had his well-documented failings but I can't recall anything bad associated with Gehrig. Being of German ancestry in that era, more than likely he was a Republican too!
If she is a Babe, sure. That is what RS management offered.
True that. I guess I was just referring to the players in my lifetime. My kids swear I am a thousand years old, but actually, I was born in 1958. The Iron Horse was certainly an exemplar, of class. Thanks for your reply !
Why you're just a youngster! :) So says me, the oldster well into my 70's.
I know you're a Mets fan and he wasn't a player with the Yankees, but skipper Joe Torre was a Republican. From afar here in Texas, I always liked him and thought he was a stand up guy. And who could forget Torre's embracing of President Bush after 9/11?
Oh heck, the last time I was called a youngster was when I went to visit my Mom, in the old folks home ;)
Joe Torre played third base for the Mets, my brother and I actually watched them blow a double header to the Expos at Shea (2nd game went into extra innings). The next day, the manager, Joe Frazier (different guy from the boxer) got canned, and Torre was hired as a player-coach. I refused to go back to Shea for five years, until they finally put a respectable team on the field (hello Claudell Washington).
That said, the Bush/Torre moment, for me, lives, for all time.
Thanks for your reply !
As a life long Dodger fan (my mother was born in Brooklyn and there was not an option in our family on who to root for), I admire Mr. Jeter. I think the recent tributes have been appropriate and I say “well done”.
Not only were they great players, but they famously got along very well with the tough New York City mass media and proved themselves to be outstanding ambassadors for the sport. And that goes a long way among the BBWAA membership.
I forget: Did he get the herp from Elisha Cuthbert and give it to Jessica Alba, or the other way around?
There is an actual map/guide in existence that explains the path of the herp as it traveled from his groin to lots of other famous people.
Bye Derek :0( time certainly does fly.
I believe I lived through the best Yankee years and that was the 77 and 78 season. I was a teen. We would buy bleacher seats and end up sitting behind the dugout every weekend. The days when you could walk all over the stadium and call for Reggie Jackson and he would come walking over with the rest of them. Nothing compares to players back in that time and to me that was the greatest team in my lifetime.
Narcissistic northeast sports media heard from...again. Yap, yap, yap.
‘Off the field would you use Jeter as a role model for who your daughter should date or who you son emulate with women?’
Yes, I’d let my Daughters date Jeter ANYTIME....as far as Biblical Values, I’ll let you throw the 1st stone...
Reading lessons are in order. I didn’t ask if you would let your daughter date jeter. I asked if he would be a role model for her to date. Apparently you are a fan of communical diseases and your daughter simply being used as a sperm bucket.
I see you have Nothing else to do today other than pick fights on a message board...don’t like my posts....go F yourself...
And fwiw, after admonishing the men that he who was without sin should cast the first stone, he admonished the adulterous woman to go AND SIN NO MORE.
There is a lesson there for you and Derek Jeter. ...and if you didn't notice, spirited debate is the nature of this site. I'd suggest moving elsewhere if this doesn't suit you.
What part of go F yourself do you NOT understand???
Take your ‘spirited debate’ and shove it....
I’ll leave this site when I’m good and ready...
And in 1962 we had just moved to Sumter, SC after serving a tour in England (my dad was AF and we’d just been reassigned to Shaw AFB).....our neighbor was Bobby Richardson’s parents.....my brother hit a homerun in the street one day and it hit his new Jaguar.....he just laughed and said no big deal......I love me some Yankees......
In the early 1960s my family lived in Sumter SC and Bobby Richardson’s parents were our neighbors. One day my brother was playing baseball in the street with other neighbor kids and hit a “homerun” over their fence - oops, Bobby’s car (a brand new Jaguar) was parked in the back yard and yes, the ball hit it. My brother (and Mother) was mortified but Mr. Richardson just laughed and said no big deal! I remember when Mickey Mantle died; I was living in Houston and there was a news flash that he’d died that morning in Dallas. I was in absolute tears when my boss walked into my office and immediately thought something had happened to my parents. When I said “no, Mickey Mantle died today” and he looked at me like I was nuts and said “and that’s why you’re so upset?” I replied, “Yes, growing up I was sure he was going to wait for me to grow up so he could marry me.” My boss just walked out shaking his head! True stories.
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