Wednesday, December 12, 2012
2013 Results: Bonds, Clemens, Piazza and Biggio are elected to the Hall of Merit!
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Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mike Piazza and Craig Biggio have been elected to the Hall of Merit!
The timing for our first year electing 4 candidates could not have worked out better, since class of 2013 is the strongest in terms of electees that we’ve ever had. The top of the 1934 ballot included Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Eddie Collins, Pop Lloyd, Smokey Joe Williams and Cristobal Torriente, but only 2 were elected.
Bonds and Clemens were each unanimous at 1 and 2. I believe that’s the first ...
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1. The Id of SugarBear Blanks312 innings on a 22 year old + plumbing executive + blow = solid pitcher, no more? In 1971 I'm sure we'd have been predicting Vida for the Hall of Fame.
Turns out the next day was a doubleheader and Vida pitched. That probably would have been the way to go ....
(*) A relative term, given that I was 7. One or both of them shook my hand; that I remember.
Yeah, but you could have been a terrorist. Thank God that heinous hole in our security has now been plugged.
I'm a bit surprised by this. OK, sure, most any story in baseball is hokum. But back in the day when a big chunk of ticket sales were day-of-the-game walk-up sales, I'd be surprised if the starting pitcher didn't have an effect. Probably not as big an effect as the weather but still a big effect. These days with most tickets sold well in advance I can see that there would be no effect.
I might have gone to that one. It depends whether there were any other Sunday visits by the Athletics to Detroit that season. Sundays were a good day to get autographs from the players as they boarded the bus to the airport at the end of their visit, and I know that in 1971 I got a lot of A's autographs (not Blue's, although I did try) one Sunday.
You could have seen Blue pitch against the Senators on Opening Day at RFK. Blue lasted 1.1 innings and the Senators won 8 to 0. That was Blue's last loss until May 28th at Fenway. Between those two losses, he went 10 and 0 in 11 starts, with 10 complete games and an ERA of 0.96.
His year ended on a down note, though, when he blew a late inning lead in Baltimore in game 1 of the ALCS, and the A's went on to get swept.
First time I saw Blue was in his 3rd start in the Majors, in August of 1969 in Oakland against the Red Sox. He got knocked out in the 5th inning, and the main thing I remember was that this 300 pound guy who was sitting near me in the 3rd deck kept shouting out "To the showers with you, Blue! And that goes for you, too!" He was on Blue's case from the first pitch of the game, though I have no idea why.
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