Posted on 08/18/2006 9:02:13 AM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule
It was Friday, Aug. 18, 1967, and the town was alive because the Red Sox were in an honest-to-God, late-summer pennant race for the first time in 17 years. The fourth-place Red Sox (3 1/2 games back) were playing the fifth-place Angels (four back) in the first of four and it was baseball as baseball was meant to be until that awful moment in the bottom of the fourth with Tony Conigliaro batting against California righthander Jack Hamilton.
The sound. Rico Petrocelli will never forget the sound.
``It was a `squish,' " recalls Petrocelli, the on-deck hitter, ``like a tomato or melon hitting the ground."
It was the sound of a baseball hitting Tony C in the left eye.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
where is tony? and helmuts were not standard back then were they? if so they didn't have the side shield...
Tony is dead and no, helmets were not standard back then.
September 10, 1978... Yankees take 4 out of 4! Yanks out hit 'em 67-21; runs 42-9. This all set the stage for a one game play-off and... BUCKY DENT!
"Keep your eye on the ball" is just a figure of speech.
Conigliaro returned in 1969, winning the Comeback Player of the Year award. In '70, he belted 36 homers and it appeared, his career was back on track. But vision problems continued to bother him and he left the big leagues in 1971. He attempted a brief comeback in 1975 but it failed.
In 1982, Conigliaro suffered a heart attack while returning from an audition for the Red Sox telecasts. He was never the same and on February 24, 1990, this seemingly indestructible hero died.
http://wiwi.essortment.com/biographytonyc_rtdv.htm
“You're a funny guy Solly...”
That brings back some old memories... I was watching that game when it happened.
Boston Sucks!!!
There are 2 kinds of men I won't date: Democrats and Yankee fans. After all, I have standards.
Don't flatter yourself sister. I have no interest in Massachusettes women. Been there, done that.
I was born in Manhattan and have spent most my life within a 10-mile radius of the 5 boroughs. I am a dyed-in-the-wool Mets fan. Have been since 1962.
Yankee fans are like Democrats -- they think that all you need to do to solve a problem is throw money at it.
And one more thing -- don't flatter yourself. where did I say I wanted to date you?
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