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dukehjsteve wrote: My Dad worked at Grumman Aircraft in suburban NY and was a BIG Giant fan. His best memory of that afternoon is being at work, everyone in the world listening to the radio. When Thomson parked it, one rabid Dodger fan in my Dad's office was so upset he threw his battery radio out a 3 story window !
My dad was a mounted patrolman with NY's Finest and, since I was not yet born I'm not sure of the full story, my dad fell off his horse at one point injuring his back enough to pull limited duty for quite a long time. I often wondered if the two events were related
BTW...the Dodgers moved out of Brooklyn a few months prior to me being born. My mom has always said with a big smile that "they lost the Dodgers but gained a son that year". With the same smile she says "she's not sure they got the better deal". I guess you have to be of Irish descent to treat that as a joke.
I was a huge Killebrew fan, partially because from an early age I was huge for the underdogs (and the Senators with Pascual,Ramos, Allison and Killer were about as underdogish as you could get) but also becuase he was from Idaho, which in the late '50s was one of two states I had ever visited!
Didn't he set a record for the most homers ever with fewest ribbies? As in, most homers (49 or so?) with fewer than 100 RBI. ????
Not quite 60 myself but close. Spent my elementry school years in LA between 1959-65, a good time to be a dodger fan. I remember my teacher rolling the TV into the classroom so we could watch the 63 series opener against the yankees. Koufax was my favorite player (a lefty like me) and he just killed em. I got most of the nicknames above, recognized a bunch more after somebody else answered.
Here's a couple from the 60s- The Dominican Dandy (just had an anniversary of sorts) Stretch
Lots of Giants and Dodgers fans but I guess no Stinkees fans. Nobody has figured out who "Bullet Bob" is...he played for that other New York team in the 50s.
Lots of Giants and Dodgers fans but I guess no Stinkees fans. Nobody has figured out who "Bullet Bob" is...he played for that other New York team in the 50s.
gh wrote:Didn't he set a record for the most homers ever with fewest ribbies? As in, most homers (49 or so?) with fewer than 100 RBI. ????
I looked it up on the MLB Web site. In 1963, Killebrew hit 45 home runs with 96 RBI, which established a new record for most home runs in a single season with less than 100 RBI. The previous record holder was Mickey Mantle. Killebrew's record has since been matched by Barry Bonds, then surpassed by Alfonso Soriano.
I'm late seeing this thread (too much time spent on track!).
The last names are the easy part of the question, here are the first names of the people whose names haven't been identified yet:
The Man -Stanley Frank Musial Shot Gun--didn't know this one Vinegar Bend-Wilmer Mizell Whitey-Edward Charles Ford Red-Albert Schoendienst Scooter-Phil Rizzuto Pee Wee-Harold Reese Duke-Edwin Snider Yogi-Lawrence Peter Berra Smokey-Forrest Burgess The Lip-Leo Durocher Country-Enos Slaughter Reading Rifle-Carl Furillo Mad Monk-Russ Meyer Paw Paw--don't know
I also don't know the $64,000 Question question.
Here are some quiz questions of mine:
Why was Orlando Cepeda called the Baby Bull, and what was his nickname that teammates used?
Other nicknames: Kitten Kitty Ducky Minnie Rocky Ozark Ike Daddy Wags Ding Dong Put Put Oisk Turk (two of them that I can think of) The Walking Man Doctor Strangeglove (but not known by that until after the movie) Deacon
DJ. Correct for the Mad Monk and the Reading Rifle (a.k.a. Skoonj). I'm over 60 so i won't answer any of the names put up by others (unless they are still up there for another 3 weeks or so). I was a Brooklyn Dodger fan and a fan of Furillo and can honestly say that I was unaware of his nicknames until I came across them in the Baseball Encyclopedia. Going through it made me realize that a lot of ballplayers had often obscure nicknames. I'm happy to see that "Paw Paw" is still on the board. i was aware of it when he played.
dj wrote:I'm late seeing this thread (too much time spent on track!).
The last names are the easy part of the question, here are the first names of the people whose names haven't been identified yet:
The Man -Stanley Frank Musial Shot Gun--didn't know this one Vinegar Bend-Wilmer Mizell Whitey-Edward Charles Ford Red-Albert Schoendienst Scooter-Phil Rizzuto Pee Wee-Harold Reese Duke-Edwin Snider Yogi-Lawrence Peter Berra Smokey-Forrest Burgess The Lip-Leo Durocher Country-Enos Slaughter Reading Rifle-Carl Furillo Mad Monk-Russ Meyer Paw Paw--don't know
I also don't know the $64,000 Question question.
Here are some quiz questions of mine:
Why was Orlando Cepeda called the Baby Bull, and what was his nickname that teammates used?
Other nicknames: Kitten Kitty Ducky Minnie Rocky Ozark Ike Daddy Wags Ding Dong Put Put Oisk Turk (two of them that I can think of) The Walking Man Doctor Strangeglove (but not known by that until after the movie) Deacon
There is no such thing as too much time spent on track!
Shuba's first name was correctly identified as George early in the thread.
dj wrote:What's the answer on your $64,00 Question? I know What's on second, so I should ask Who's the answer? But Who's on first!
I did a little research through my archives because something didn't seem right about this piece of trivia that bar room baseball buffs have been throwing around for decades. The show was in 1955 and the playoff game was in 1951 which would make the incident pretty fresh in the minds of any Dodger or Giants fan.
Anyhow the answer is Myrtle Power, a 71 year old grandmother and Brooklyn Dodgers fan. She won $32,000 by correctly answering: "The official record books list seven players (as of 1955) who are credited with over 3,000 hits during their careers in the Major Leagues. Ty Cobb heads the list with 4 191 hits garnered in his 24 years of play. Name the remaining 6 players with a lifetime total of 3,000 or more hits."
Since the last post was nearly a week ago I suppose I can bring myself back from my self-imposed exile and interject some hints to still unanswered questions. I know the answers to: Kitten - a "perfect" pitcher; Ducky - HOF from the 30s & 40s; The Walking Man - almost as many bases on balls as hits; Dr. Strangeglove - a power hitting first baseman; and of course, since I posted him, Paw Paw, a Yankee Killer in his own right, he was for a while a teammate of the "Yankee Killer" Frank Lary.
KDFINE wrote:Since the last post was nearly a week ago I suppose I can bring myself back from my self-imposed exile and interject some hints to still unanswered questions. I know the answers to: Kitten - a "perfect" pitcher; Ducky - HOF from the 30s & 40s; The Walking Man - almost as many bases on balls as hits; Dr. Strangeglove - a power hitting first baseman; and of course, since I posted him, Paw Paw, a Yankee Killer in his own right, he was for a while a teammate of the "Yankee Killer" Frank Lary.
KDFINE wrote:Since the last post was nearly a week ago I suppose I can bring myself back from my self-imposed exile and interject some hints to still unanswered questions. I know the answers to: Kitten - a "perfect" pitcher; Ducky - HOF from the 30s & 40s; The Walking Man - almost as many bases on balls as hits; Dr. Strangeglove - a power hitting first baseman; and of course, since I posted him, Paw Paw, a Yankee Killer in his own right, he was for a while a teammate of the "Yankee Killer" Frank Lary.
Is "Kitten" Harvey Haddix ?
Yes.
And the nicknames are restricted to players in the 1950s, so Ducky Medwick (originally Ducky Wucky, but media members tended to drop the Wucky) is not correct.
DJ. As soon as you rejected Medwick it clicked with me as to who the Ducky of the 50s was. He was a light hitting powerless utility infielder, who nonetheless managed to play 19 years in the big league (which surprised me when I just looked him up). If I hadn't have had his baseball card as a kid I probably would have forgotten him.
KDFINE wrote:DJ. As soon as you rejected Medwick it clicked with me as to who the Ducky of the 50s was. He was a light hitting powerless utility infielder, who nonetheless managed to play 19 years in the big league (which surprised me when I just looked him up). If I hadn't have had his baseball card as a kid I probably would have forgotten him.
JayIsMe wrote:and one from a little farther back- Three Fingers
Mordecai Three-Finger Brown. Got his hand caught in a feed chopper on the family farm as a youth. Pitched mostly for the Cubs, on their last World Series winning team in 1908.
The show was in 1955 and the playoff game was in 1951 which would make the incident pretty fresh in the minds of any Dodger or Giants fan.