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Lifenews.com ^ | Jan 10, 2019 | Day Gardner

[JonPreston]

Just returning an elbow.

[a little elbow grease]

LOL....

After you had been posting a number of my old posts today, I decided to look back at some of yours.

You seem like a real good guy who holds about the same opinions on things here as I do. So I really see no good reason to be at each other.

Anyhow among many of your posts I noticed this one on an earlier "Gillette" thread.

You wrote: "I still recall Nino Benvenuti and Don Fullmer putting on quite the show."

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Along those lines I still can remember watching on tv // March 24, 1962 -- Madison Square Garden in New York.

That night, then-world welterweight champion Cuban national Benny “Kid” Paret lost his title to Emile Griffith by KO at 2.09 minutes of the 12th round in the third matchup between the two boxers.

Benny got tangled up in the ropes in the corner ...... the ref was very slow to intervene, and the results were very, very terrible.

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Have a good night. Again ...... from reading some of your past comments I know that we agree on a great deal.

Have a good night ....... I'm going to go watch that 4th quarter and overtime of the K.C. -- New England game again.

What a bizarre ending to that game.

[Altura Ct.]

How many people have blacks killed?

[JonPreston]

A pleasure meets you! Brooklyn meets Pittsburgh and yes we're politically simpatico.

I have great memories of boxing and I recall Griffith v Benny “Kid” Paret. He called Griffith a maricón and that was all she wrote. I saw a lot of fights in the Garden among them Jerry Quarry v Buster Mathis and Ali v Zora Foley.

Speaking of Pittsburgh, as a Mets fan thanks for Donn Clendenon. He put us over the top in '68!!

Enjoy the game. I like the Bradys big against the Rams.

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"Speaking of Pittsburgh, as a Mets fan thanks for Donn Clendenon. He put us over the top in '68!!" ---

You're welcome.

From the mid-50's through most of the 60's I often sat about 12 rows back behind the Pirates dugout on the first base line at old Forbes Field. The on deck circle was not very far away from us. Some nights late into the game if Clendenon was striking out a little too much and was in a slump, my brother and I used to boo him 'just a little'. He was a very big man ..... crouched on one knee and leaning on about three Louisville sluggers he would just slowly turn his head and glare at us ..... scared the crap out of me. lol

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"When we got him, Donn Clendenon, we became a different team. We never had a three-run homer type of guy. He was always humble, never cocky. We were still young kids in that era. He was a veteran that came in and made us better. When you threw him into the mix with the rest of us, we became a dangerous force. We knew we had a good team (1969 New York Mets ) with him, but we didn't know quite how good. Gil Hodges thought we were better than we were. He was the MVP — a very dangerous player." - New York Mets Shortstop Bud Harrelson

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"Enjoy the game. I like the Bradys big against the Rams." ---

Me too.

(jmo) Belichick is a genius and he had the Patriots playing very well Sunday. And Brady is Brady. If all goes about as it should and the refs stay out of it, I think L.A. should lose by about two touchdowns. (But both of us have been around long enough to know about sports' unpredictability. -- For instance, remember the 1960 Pirates -- Yankees World Series. LOL .... that Series was great. We luckily snared a couple of tickets to game 2. The Pirates got smeared, 16-3.

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By the way, I guess you remember pitcher Jon Matlack. He came and worked out with our university baseball team back in '68. (I never found out why he came there that year but there he was.) He threw some smoke from that long left arm of his.

I was a left-handed hitter so I wasn't hurrying into the batting cage too often to get my cuts against Jon. He was a very nice guy but very intimidating on the mound.

[JonPreston]

Thanks for the memories! We’re in the same ballpark, age wise, so our memories coincide. The first game I recall was at Ebbitts field, the Dodgers v Chicago cubs (‘56?). Earnie Banks was their shortstop and I recall my brother telling me to watch him carefully. Glad I did!

NYC was a baseball mecca then; Willie Mays up at the Polo grounds, Mantle & Maris at Yankee Stadium. Then came the Mets, who as a Dodger fan immediately became my team. I forget when Ralph Kiner became involved w the broadcasts, but he was a hoot! The game was worth watching if for nothing else than his gaffs; Gary Carter was Gary Cooper, and of course, “It’s Father’s Day today at Shea, so to all you fathers out there, Happy Birthday.” Great stuff, some of which actually put Yogi’s malapropos to shame :)

yep, I remember Matlock. IIRC, he couldn’t find the strike zone consistently buy yes, he threw heat. Seaver was my favorite. A complete pitcher who actually threw complete games!

I’m glad I got to see NYC at it’s height. It’s now an open toilet and someplace I visit only out of necessity.

PS; Bill Mazeroski broke my heart in 1960!!

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"PS; Bill Mazeroski broke my heart in 1960!!"

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LOL

Maz ... that October 13th was responsible for my Mom and Dad allowing my brother and me to drink a couple of beers to celebrate. (This beer thing seems to have been a hard habit to stop.)

;-)

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Here is a Buddy of yours ....

PS -- I want you to know that the Mets drove me crazy in those years of the mid and late 60's and the early 70's. It seemed you were always destroying our seasons in September. (And yes, I liked Seaver a lot too. He was an engineer out there on the mound as his knee area actually touched the mound during his follow through. Great mechanics -- Mr. Seaver.)

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[JonPreston]

Is that a picture of our skinny shortstop, the one who Pete Rose trucked years ago? Egad, where did the time go :)

Seaver's knee. His mechanics were the model I tough to my son when he played. They were as good as I've ever seen. I recall when he broke the $100,000 per year barrier. I can only guess what he'd be worth today.

The only beer I can drink today is something on tap. with the days of Bert & Harry Piels long gone I've switched to a decent scotch :)

[a little elbow grease]

"Seaver's knee. His mechanics were the model I taught to my son when he played. They were as good as I've ever seen. I recall when he broke the $100,000 per year barrier. I can only guess what he'd be worth today."

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Speaking of salaries.....

"In 1951, Ralph Kiner was rewarded financially for his home run power and became the highest paid player in Major League baseball. And a few years later with the Pirates, he asked for a raise ….. and Mr. Ricky said, “no…….... we can come in last place without him.”

Ralph …. who had supposed romances, dates with leading ladies, such as Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner and Janet Leigh was one funny guy.

Some examples:

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

All of his saves have come in relief appearances.

"The Mets have gotten their leadoff batter on only once this inning."

Now up to bat for the Mets is Gary Cooper."

"There's a lot of heredity in that family."

"Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox."

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"Ralph McPherran Kiner, very simply, made post-World War II baseball matter in Pittsburgh. Very little else mattered about those 1946-1952 Pirates, who regularly lost 90-plus games of a 154-game schedule and finished 30-plus games behind in the National League more than once during that span. But whenever the 6-foot-2, 195-pound Kiner approached home plate twirling a couple of bats overhead, Forbes Field came alive. Regardless of the score -- and, most days, it was lopsided -- fans would refuse to leave until Kiner's last at-bat. And when Kiner had taken his last swing, the place would empty." - by Tom Singer

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"The gentle and princely presence of Ralph Kiner could turn a gathering of crooks, rogues and rascals into civil and gracious fellows. Mr. Kiner had that effect, the opposite of one bad apple. - by Marty Noble / MLB.com (02/06/2014, 'Kiner, Hall of Fame slugger, broadcaster, dies at 91'