Posted on 09/06/2020 8:28:55 PM PDT by lurk
Glad you liked it, GW!
LOL, I ilke to think I wasn’t a snot-nosed kid, just a kind of dumb one, but...I think I was a snot-nosed kid, too!
1967. Seems like a different planet back then than it is now.
Anyone else remember that the Busch Stadium organist would play the theme from Shaft whenever Brock came to bat?
RIP Lou.
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First Tom Seaver, now Lou. Ball players die in twos.
But not ‘68....Go Tigers!
Pour some lemon juice on that wound, why don’t ya?
That’s partly due to greed where Players have no loyalty whatsoever to the Team, City, or Fans while they make millions to play a game.
The Teams in turn could care less about the Fans (See Detroit Tigers 2007-present) and have contempt for them for some crazy reason. Cable contracts with fox and ESPN plus merchandise make enough that they’d rather have cardboard cutouts in the stands than have messy kids and real passionate beer and red-hot consuming fans in the stands.
But the owners will do their best to appear “woke” while the surviving Kaline, Mays, Killebrew, Robinson, Powell, Garvey, and Mantle, etc. fans wonder what happened to what was Baseball.
And why their grandkids don’t want to play in little league or go the the park and play catch and “pepper”.
Really sorry about ‘68 then, the Cards were a better team but the Tigers needed to give the fans a freakish win to keep them coming back for three decades after. McLain was a freak but Lolich won it with heart and stamina.
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