Thursday, April 11, 2013
Former Astros manager, Beaumont-native Hatton dead at 90
(www.beaumontenterprise.com)
RIP, Grady Hatton…or as we used to call him The Creeper.
Read More...Grady Hatton Jr., a Beaumont-native, major league baseball player and manager of the Houston Astros, died Thursday morning from causes relating to cancer, his daughter-in-law said.
Hatton was born in Beaumont and played in the majors from 1946-60 after attending the University of Texas-Austin. He made his major league debut on April 16, 1946 as a 23-year-old second baseman with the Cincinnati Reds. In 1952, he was named a National ...
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1. Tulo's Fishy Mullet (mrams) posted on November 09, 2012 at 03:09 PM # hit 0 | hit 0MacPhail died yesterday, so he came up two days short of his Herbert Lom goal.
Hal Smith was the guy who made the All-Star team once. Hal Smith was the one who had the highest championship probability added on a single play in postseason history.
Scratchy is the cat. His name has C-A-T in it.
That's what I learned in college.
RIP, Mr. MacPhail.
Three members of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings were still alive, with two more having died within the previous two years.
The Cubs hadn't won a World Series in nine years.
I honestly did not realize that Lee MacPhail was still alive. Or that Andy is almost 60 now.
How about this recently deceased Russian mathematician, who turned 12 when the Russian Revolution took place, and wound up outliving the USSR by 21 years?
The Yankees had never won a world championship.
No one had ever hit 150 homers. Babe Ruth was a slim young pitcher.
Lee McPhail is older than Jackie Robinson. We recently marked the 40th anniversary of Robinson's passing.
You know all those jokes about how Bob Dole was when he ran for president four elections & 16 years ago? McPhail is older than Bob Dole.
McPhail is five months younger the JFK, the president who died in office nearly a half-century ago. McPhail is less than seven years younger than Reagan, who was easily the oldest president in US history when he left office nearly a quarter-century ago.
Not only is McPhail older than the Cold War, he's older than the USSR. The Russian Revolution led by Lenin was going on exactly when McPhail was born.
He's older than Betty White. He's older than Abe Vigoda. He's older than Mike Wallace or Nelson Mandela. He's older than Harveys Wallbanger. He's older than William Holden, Julius Rosenberg, Rita Hayworth, or the Chinese Communist Party.
man, this one got me.
Bobby Doerr is less than six months away. Crosses fingers.
But did he have a friend in Minsk, who had a friend in Pinsk?
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