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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Friday, September 14, 2012
Connie Mack, quoted in the September 14, 1912 edition of the Pittsburgh Press, to the right of the linked item: Booze and baseball don’t mix, never did, and never will. A pitcher who thinks he can fan old Herman W. Souse is simply pitching to the greatest home-run hitter he ever faced…[Rube] Waddell, with all his talent, couldn’t stay in the major leagues. Why? Because he stood there and pitched himself to Old Man Barleycorn.
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No, sir, the day of the stewed ball player has gone, and it won’t come back.
Don’t tell Mantle and Alexander.
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1. Matt Chico's Bail Bonds (Dan Lee) Posted: September 14, 2012 at 07:49 AM (#4235497)Completely unrelated to baseball, but also in the Pittsburgh Press 100 years ago, a Pittsburgh man is accused of attempting to elope with a "distant" relative who's living at his home, and Emperor Taisho of Japan fears an epidemic of seppuku and jigai after General Nogi Maresuke and his wife commit ritual suicide in response to Emperor Meiji's death.
C: Nick Allen
1B: Troy Neel
2B: David Bell
3B: Tim Wallach
SS/Play By Play: Jerry Coleman
LF: Willie Hogan
CF: Delmon Young
RF: Jack Dunleavy
SP: Kid Nichols
SP: Stan Williams
SP: Dave Hillman
SP: Harry Parker
SP: Jerry Don Gleaton
RP: Chad Bradford
Manager: Jim Fanning
Not as good at his job as his dad was: Trevor Gretzky
Fun Names: Bunny Madden, Icehouse Wilson, Josh Outman, Joe Winkelsas
As would his fellow Yankee, Mickey Mantle.
"Old Man Barleycorn"
They sure don't write like that in newspapers anymore...
In century-old alcoholic baseball owner news, this should be around the time that soon-to-be-banned Phillies syndicate frontman Horace Fogel was throwing around allegations of cheating against John McGraw, Roger Bresnahan and any number of other luminaries.
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