Posted on 10/31/2018 5:26:12 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
“If you pitch to him, he’ll ruin a baseball,’’ rival manager Sparky Anderson once said. “There’s no comparison between McCovey and anybody else in the league.” He was the National League rookie of the year in 1959, the league’s MVP in 1969 and the comeback player of the year in 1977 when he kicked off a late-career renaissance by returning to the Giants after a three-year absence. In all, McCovey was a six-time All-Star whose career home run total ties him with Ted Williams for 18th on the all-time list. Before Barry Bonds passed him, McCovey had more home runs than any other left-handed hitter in N.L history. McCovey’s total includes 18 grand slams, a figure topped by only three players. He was inducted into Cooperstown on his first ballot, in 1986..
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RIP Willie. One of the greats.
Overshadowed by Mays but he was a helluva hitter. RIP Willie.
Pretty sure that is Dodger Stadium... so maybe.
RIP. Nobody was more feared.
My favorite Drysdale story....
The Dodgers are in The Series but Koufax can't pitch because it's Yom Kippur .... So they start Drysdale instead.
Drysdale proceeds to get hammered. When Walter Alston came to the mound to take him out, Drysdale said 'I bet you wish I was Jewish too.'
I could only pick out Bench, McCovey, and Santo.
Opening day is a long way off. I always get depressed after The Series ends. Plus the days are getting shorter and the temps are dropping. The older I get the less I like winter.
The Orioles trading for Frank Robinson was the best day in team history.
He came over in 1966, won the Triple Crown, the league MVP, and led the Os to their first championship.
Would have hated playing first base when he was batting. RIP Stretch
Prayers to his family....Great player...God needed him for ‘The Angels’...RIP.
RIP
In a world where everything was normally focused on the other Willie,(Mays), Willie McCovey was a spectacular player and teammate and performed with incredible grace and dignity,
RIP Stretch, you were one of the best.
Perfect depiction of every kid in my 6th grade class back in October of 1962.
Not many could rope like Willie could. Bobby Richardson’s, (My favorite player and person), glove hand still hurts! (Old timers will get that one!) RIP Big Guy.
Hate those damned pajama pants they wear...looks like they’re working out at the gym...
As a twelve year old kid in little
league, I was honored to witness
Willie during a batting exposition
promoting little league in our area.
He hit six consecutive balls over the
center field fence. The power of his
bat was phenomenal. RIP Willie.
Cool story God bless your dad
I had a signed pic and long letter from Joe DiMaggio when he was skipper of the As and Vida Blue and Catfish and Rollie ....what a bullpen!
It was several pages with Joe extolling effort and talent....I was a pitcher
Little league then.....the Pony etc
Anyhow I got divorced and when I got my truck of stuff back from her and my new husband in law many things were missing like old medieval paintings and charts ans a Navajo rug from the 20s
And I opened my scrapbook and there on the page where the letter and autograph pic it was blank torn out
My girls later told me they saw it in my husband in laws office along with my charts and 1400s nautical paintings
I owned ships once....
Anyhow...
Life.
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