Posted on 04/06/2020 1:08:13 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
As a young boy, a friend tried to trade me a Rocky Colavito Cleveland Indians card. I just knew that there must have been 2 guys with the same name, because the Rocky Colavito that I knew was a Detroit Tiger.
He’ll be here all week, folks!
I remember New Era Chips. I used to think that black silhouette was a little bit ‘racy’ for a bag of chips.
Back in Michigan, we had Better Made Potato Chips, show a girl in a lacy bonnet.
Nooo. Not AOC!!!!
I’d say Hillary, but this is reserved for people one would say “Awwwww” about.
I suppose that you also pooh-pooh cars of that era because they're not up to today's standards.
It's bad enough that an entire side of society (the Left side, of course) does exactly that with historical figures like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, the United States in general. I don't like it there, and I don't like it here.
Heh! As a wee lad I was quite puzzled as to why some salvaged 55 gal drums my father had in the barn were stenciled with a baseball player's name. ;^)
He could neutralize an entire pitcher!
I loved that song and think about it once in awhile. “We’re all behind our baseball team. Go get ‘em Tigers!”
Al Kaline and Ernie Harwell in the play by play booth for all eternity...….
Mitchell was a hell of a broken field runner after he caught the pass.
Al Kaline, great player in any era. 68 Tigers had a hell of a line up with McAuiliff, Cash, Kaline, Hortion, and Freehan. Pitching was a tad light after McLain and Lolich but Hiller and Dobson in the pen were tough. The team ERA was 2.71 none the less.
ROTFL!
Yeah I heard that on the news this morning. Bobby Mitchell....
We can dream can't we?!
Al Kaline probably had the best comeback ever to a heckler. One spring training, he was being harassed by some young guy who was really giving him a hard time. The heckler yells at Kaline: "You ain't half as good as Mickey Mantle." Kaline stopped, looked at him and calmly responded: "Son, no one is half as good as Mickey Mantle." Apparently, the kid got a puzzled look on his face, turned and walked off.
I got to see most of them play in the minors with the old Knoxville Smokies...
Good one! I think I recognized Al Kaline’s name before my own.
I was on the school bus headed home when they won the last Cardinal game in MO. Someone had a transistor radio. My dad went walleye fishing regularly with a friend who used to be Tiger’s minor league....Mud Hens?
Would love to hear one of those classic games called by Ernie Harwell again. Someone mentioned Ray Oyler. Boy that’s a name I haven’t heard in awhile.
‘I had a AK glove in my yute.’
I had a Kaline bat; I remember Kaline and the 1961 titers, who gave probably the best Yankee team ever a great run for their money...lots of guys had career years for them, like Norm Cashj, Rocky Colavito, Frank Lary, Bill Bruton and Jim Bunning (my favorite Phillie)...Kaline was solid across the board, high average, good pop in his bat, topnotch in the field...I never heard that anyone ever had a bad word to say about him...
Ray Oyler...Good shortstop!!!!
Saw him in the minors with Knoxville Smokies...
There was a man on base and that dinger gave them the lead which they held on to win, setting up his showdown with Bob Gibson in deciding game #7. You couldn't write a movie script for a mediocre pitcher doing that and facing down the guy who was probably the best pitcher in the game at that time for his 3rd win and Series MVP.
Lolich had a .110 career batting average and, as I pointed out, not another homerun in his mediocre 13 years as a MLB player.
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