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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Wednesday, January 19, 2022How baseball changed forever in 1972: A timeline of MLB’s most memorable events, 50 years later
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Posted: January 19, 2022 at 09:49 PM | 20 comment(s)
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1. John Northey Posted: January 19, 2022 at 10:17 PM (#6061652)I'm sorry, but that's Wes Parker of Brady Bunch fame to you buddy!
The Reds finished a half-game out in the first half of 1981 and the Cards did the same in the second half. And both of them finished the full season with better marks than the Dodgers/Astros/Expos/Phils.
Ted Williams induction, 1966:
"I hope that one day Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson will be voted into the Hall of Fame as symbols of the great Negro players who are not here only because they weren’t given the chance."
in the 1990s: "No one encouraged me. I thought this thing alone,” Williams said. “I’ve seen Satchel Paige. I’ve seen Josh Gibson. I heard about Buck Leonard. I heard about some of the other great black athletes. It just came out that [Hall of Fame] day … [and I thought about] the great players of the past. … Only because of their color, [they] didn’t have a chance to play in the big leagues.”
Not only that, the Reds had the best record in baseball. But still were left out of an 8 team playoff field, the biggest ever at the time.
I think their exclusion from the AL playoffs was justified.
Could they not have squeezed that game in?
I had no idea about the Tigers dome - why did that get derailed?
As mentioned in the excerpt, they agreed in April that no games would be made up. The Sox were just out of luck.
Could they not have squeezed that game in?
The season ended with a three-game Red Sox-Tigers series in Detroit, making it a de facto playoff series. (Detroit came in with a half-game lead, won the first two games and clinched the division.)
I had no idea about the Tigers dome - why did that get derailed?
IIRC (too lazy to look it up), they were going to build new stadia for both the Tigers and Lions, with a huge sliding roof in between them. (They did something similar in KC, with Royals Stadium and Arrowhead, only without the sliding roof.)
Close. Detroit came in trailing by a half-game, then won the first two and clinched the division.
a sanguine Red Sox manager Eddie Kasko was asked about how things could have been different if....
Eddie calmly replied, "If 'ifs and buts' were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas."
Red Sox played the Orioles the penultimate weekend and WJR, the Tigers' flagship radio station, broadcast at least two of the games.
Al Kaline made the final out of the clincher. Fans stormed the field.
In the final game, after the Tigers clinched, Joe Coleman had a chance to win his 20th -- which mattered then -- but the Sox beat him.
The Tigers whiffed away Game 1; our family drove that day to West Virginia where my dad's brother lived and he laughed when the whiff was complete.
Game 4 was one of the most awesome postseason comebacks ever. Loved those 9 and 10 year old get back from school and playoff baseball is on NBC TV situations. Same thing the next year for the Pete Rose/Bud Harrelson fight at second base.
Game 5 was a gut-wrencher; cold, dreary mid-October afternoon, hard to get a hit plus the era was low offense. Vida Blue Bumgarner'd a 4-inning save. Reggie tore his hamstring on a double steal. Stadiums being what they were then, people threw a bunch of #### on the field in the late innings and some might have even run onto the field. The radio broadcast is on YouTube; the games are so well-paced that Ernie Harwell barely has time to say anything between pitches.
Great, absorbing piece. The 1972 postseason is the earliest one I consciously remember watching parts of.
I shook Roberto Clemente's hand in late December, 1972. My neighborhood in suburban San Juan did a little local relief drive for the Nicaraguan earthquake victims, and my mother drove us to the collection center at Plaza Las Americas mall to drop off the supplies. Roberto was there, and me and some of the other neighborhood kids all eagerly lined up to meet him and get his autograph, which he graciously gave to all of us. Each of them personalized, no less. So eight-year-old me had a yellow piece of paper with a special note and autograph from Roberto Clemente.
A few days later, on New Years Day, I got the call from one of my buddies... :(
I went back with friends the next day too and Burt Hooton tossed a no-hitter, the only one of those I've seen in person.
Great way to start the season. The Cubs did finish with a winning record and in 2nd that year (a mere 11 games back of the Pirates). Seems unlikely I'll make it to Wrigley for opening day this year.
Hard to say what was sketchier---the plane, or the owner, both of which were festooned with red flags.
I don't remember watching that game, but I remember my mom telling me that Hooton came across as a big jerk on the Tenth Inning show (or maybe it was on the Lead-Off Man the following day). She never did like Hooton after that.
Most Pittsburghers, besides Roberto Clemente, pay no attention as this is the same day as the Immaculate Reception...
I was a young kid and thought that and Billy Martin going crazy were the coolest things ever.
Martin ordered LaGrow to throw low and hit Campy for having a good game, which in his eyes was fine sportsmanship. hence his outrage at the bat toss (which LaGrow managed to duck).
post 13 unites that brawl with the Rose-Harrelson one a year later. different times.
had a chance to talk to Pete last year, and told him I liked his "Charlie Hustle" book so much as a youngster that I hated him less than the other Mets fans I knew - even after that fight.
"you guys should have been happy," he said. "you won and went to the World Series."
don't ever change, Pete!
er, wait....
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