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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Sunday, July 24, 2011Guzzardi: Double the fun: Doubleheaders Were Yogi Berra’s Thing; He Caught Both Ends 117 Times
Is there an active catcher in the Majors today who’s done this even once? ERROR---Jolly Old St. Nick
Posted: July 24, 2011 at 04:33 PM | 25 comment(s)
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1. cardsfanboywhy would you say it that way, instead of saying Campanella third?
I think that was the also the year Randall Simon whacked one of the Milwaukee Sausage characters with a bat.
Prompting the observation that Randall Simon really would swing at anything.
Because when Bill came to a fork in the road of his conclusion, he took it.
It wasn't Bill that said that, it was the writer of this article. He was going to do a comparison between Campanella and Berra and made that comment which was just a weird turn of a phrase to my ear.
On that Saturday afternoon before 69, 416 fans
Did old Yankee Stadium actually hold 70,000 or was this a split doubleheader.
Another reason to hate the DH -- I can't use "DH" as an abbreviation for doubleheader.
Yes.
Yes.
The announced attendance for a 1938 Memorial Day doubleheader against the Red Sox was 83,533 (81,891 paid). Needless to say, they weren't enforcing the fire codes that day. The total receipts were $91,610.75, which at the time was also a record.
Which is still less than what Alex Rodriguez gets paid on a per game basis.
Of course, keep in mind that in Berra's era, the time between half-innings was briefer; there were also fewer in-game pitching changes. Consequently, games were shorter.
That 1938 doubleheader (8 years before Berra's ML debut) had scores of 10-0 and 5-4, and the game times were 2:15 and 1:45.
This was two tickets for the price of one, so a pretty good deal. First game started at 1:05, and there was a 35-minute intermission between games, btw. And then the second game went 10 innings. Thankfully the weather was cool. I don't think I could have lasted the 7 hours if it was broiling out.
This was two tickets for the price of one, so a pretty good deal. First game started at 1:05, and there was a 35-minute intermission between games, btw. And then the second game went 10 innings. Thankfully the weather was cool. I don't think I could have lasted the 7 hours if it was broiling out.
Interesting about the 35 minutes. BITD the standard intermission time was 20 minutes, just long enough for the second game pitchers to warm up, the infield to be raked and watered, and the chalk lines to be re-set.
It's a good story, but I can't find a game that actually matches it.
-- MWE
i've also heard dimaggio ripped berra a new one when he (berra) didn't run out a popup. now i need to know which is true or if both or neither.
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