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Hall of Merit— A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Hack Wilson
It always amazes me to see CF next to his name.
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1. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: December 22, 2004 at 09:33 PM (#1036774)Pearce is eligible again? :-)
Playing CF stopped him crashing off walls, which he might have done in LF or RF, where they're closer!
LOL
I just looked up my city, Martinsburg, WV and I find this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_Wilson
Hack Wilson is buried like a mile and a half from my house, he's been there for over 57 years, and I didn't know. That is wild. I guess I've got to go check out the gravesite sometime, being that close.
His B-R page lists him as being from PA, so I never made the connection that he lived in Martinsburg, pretty cool!
Apparently, he didn't live here, from what I can gather - he just had an 'affinity' for the town, after playing Class D ball here in the early 20s. He lived in Baltimore . . . kind of wild that they buried him out here, there must be more to it than that, he have some other tie to the town that I'm missing, or maybe he just liked to visit out here to get away from the city. It's about an hour and a half to downtown Baltimore from here, but that's the way I drive, I'd imagine cars in the 1940s were a little slower.
The *roads* were certainly a lot slower.
We're practically neighbors; we'll that's stretching the concept of neighborhoods a bit......I live in Lovettsville, VA which is almost Maryland and almost West Virginia.
If you ever organize an HoM gathering in the general DC area or go to an orioles/nationals game I'm up for attending.
I still think Hack is getting short shrift from the electorate especially the peak voters who are now clamoring for their shiny new toy, Koufax.
Oh, you're talking about the player?
I know exactly where Lovettsville is . . . when I used to live in Sterling, I'd shoot up 15 to get to Harrisburg, PA fairly regularly.
We definitely need to get something organized for the DC area . . . I'll let you know if we come up with anything for sure.
Vienna! my old stomping grounds!
I lived in Wendover, off Lawyers Road near Hunter Mill Road from 1983 until 2005 when I hit my almost-end-of-life crisis and moved my wife to the country. You know the drill; kids grown, downsize the house (hah, not with Mrs. C you dont downsize).
Still have many great friends in the Vienna area.
I work in Tysons Corner, right across from the Tysons II mall.
Went to 5 Nationals games last year...drive to Vienna metro and take the train to RFK; only way to go.
My buddy and I ran into Frank Howard on the train one evening last year.
Frank looks great.
He's lost a ton of weight from his playing days; he's a mere shadow of his former self.
He works for Steinbrenner now, scouting teams/players.
Once the games begin we should have a meet-up and go see mlb.
After all, after 33 years of waiting: "baseballs back in DC".
Red Sox playing Nats in Boston this year, but presumably the Evil Yankees are visiting DC, which would be fun, particularly as the Commissioner is, I think a Yankee fan.
What could anyone hate about Washington summers?
;-)
What about Hack Wilson?
Joe, did you ever find out why he is in Martinsburg?
Oh, yeah, baseball. Hack Wilson played the game "at the highest level" as we say around here, and for a few seasons there he played at the highest level. It is a bit surprising he didn't get more attention here.
Sorry, I forgot to anticipate that we will meet at a Southern New England SABR meeting, if I am still in the region. I suppose you will be in southern New England, avoiding both Washington summer and northern New England winter. Many people do retire to the South coast, and some to Cape Cod, although one of these years a really big hurricane will hit really hard, and some of them will spend their last years in insurance court.
Speaking of hurricanes (I was on Long Island for Gloria in the 80s), I was woken up by the earthquake this morning and felt the aftershock at work too, pretty wild.
The brochure did not mention earthquakes, only tornadoes. Pretty disappointed with that.
I was in college for that one. I never saw so many trees down, until I saw what Hurricanes Fran and Floyd did to NC.
Just too much worthier competition that Hack had to deal with as a candidate.
Anyone read this?
"Fouled Away: The Baseball Tragedy of Hack Wilson"
From Wilson's early career as a steelworker, through his time as the beloved ballplayer and icon for the City of Big Shoulders to his days as a down-on-his-luck baseball washout and itinerant laborer, an unflinching look at this Hall of Famer is provided.
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