Posted on 02/27/2011 1:55:26 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
I remember after the ‘81 baseball strike Cashman wrote a song for each team to the tune of Willie Mickey And The Duke.
My Dad and his 2 brothers were best of friends with Duke growing up in Brooklyn. It was like a death to all of them when the Dodgers left Brooklyn.
They should never have left.
We watched the final game on our big 1952 Majestic TV.
I was only 9, but I was there!
lots of 1-0 games
I tried to explain playing in wool\cotton flannel in summer to my son. He thought I had 2 heads.
You forgot a very important somebody. The guy in the cat bird seat...Red Barbour. It was he who knitted everything together. What a voice. What a talent. sd
His grandson played college ball with two of my sons. I met him once. One of the great sluggers of his time....
Sad news, indeed....I spent many a summer with my transistor radio glued to my ear listening to the newly transplanted Los Angeles Dodgers with Vin Scully and Jerry Doggett calling the play-by-play. What a team! Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Wally Moon, Gil Hodges and, of course, “The Duke”. RIP, Mr. Snider. Thanks for the memories....
That’s Willie Mays making “The Catch” in the first game of the 1954 World Series, after Cleveland player Vic Wertz drove a towering shot out to center field, at the Polo Grounds.
Giants won the Series, 4-0.
Find an old flannel jersey and let him run around for a summer afternoon outside while wearing it.
Yep. Maury Wills beats out the throw to first, steals second, scores on a long single by Willie Davis . . .
That it is!
I don't know why but baseball was more important to me when I was a kid than anything else in the world. I remember my grandfather sitting on the porch of his house trailer which sat next to my house listening to the Tigers on hot afternoons and I'd go over and sit next to him and just listen to the game.........
I had the privilege of seeing Drysdale pitch against the Cincinnati Reds in 1964. The Dodgers beat them 13 or 14 to 1 and Drysdale had a homer in the game too, if I recall correctly. Koufax was my favorite but the two of them were an incredible 1-2 punch.
We had a TV - Motorola I think - but I don’t think we could get the channel the game was on for some reason .
With Larry Sherry in the bullpen !
His time playing baseball was before mine but up here in Canada we did enjoy him on Montreal Expos broadcasts.
YES!
the dodgers of the 60’s
Willie, Mickey and the Duke.
Gil Hodges, John Roseboro, Wally Moon, Gil Hodges, Charlie Neil, Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Johnny Padres Carl Furillo and the rest of that gang we so loved.
RIP Duke.
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