Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Stan Lopata, 87, legendary Phillies catcher of the 1950s
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RIP, Stan Lopata…
Read More...Stanley Edward Lopata died Saturday from heart complications at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania at age 87.
Stan played for the Phillies from 1948 to 1958, accumulating a .257 batting average with 25 triples, 116 home runs and 395 RBI in 822 games.
His biggest year was 1956 when he had 33 doubles, seven triples, 32 homers, 95 RBI and a .267 batting average. He was selected to the National League All-Star team in 1955 and 1956.
Among Phillies catchers, he ...
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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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