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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Milwaukee Journal, December 20, 1911: Mrs. Helen Hathaway Britton, owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, believes that every woman should be a baseball fan.
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If women went to the ball game more, advises Mrs. Britton, instead of sitting home wondering what her next door neighbor is going to wear at Mrs. So and So’s theater party, she would find better contentment. Again, she would find companionship with her husband more agreeable. Also it would help to keep hubby home nights, for he would then have something live to talk about with his wife.
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1. Jefferson Manship (Dan Lee) Posted: December 20, 2011 at 10:10 AM (#4019972)C: Gabby Hartnett
1B: Cecil Cooper
2B: Jimmy Williams
3B: David Wright
SS: Augie Ojeda
LF: Harry Stovey
CF: David DeJesus
RF: Aubrey Huff
SP: Jose DeLeon
SP: George Pipgras
SP: James Shields
SP: Bill Laskey
SP: Paul Moskau
RP/RF/1B: Jack Manning
Cool names: Snooks Dowd and Ham Wade
Primate: Mike Emeigh
And unless the pitchers are in random order, Shields is my #1 here. Meanwhile Bill Laskey may not have panned out but after looking at his bref page I'd like to read an article about him.
I'd probably go Shields-DeLeon-Pipgras if I really sat and thought about it.
As for Laskey, looking at his stats, I remember him being a much better pitcher than that. Seems obvious in retrospect that a guy who didn't strike anyone out, didn't have particularly great control, and gave up home runs wasn't going to have a long career. I did a Google News Archive search for him and found that his last stint in the majors ended with him refusing to report to Colorado Springs and instead choosing to become a free agent. I guess the market for 30-year old lefties with miserable peripherals wasn't very strong in '88. Looks like he went to Spring Training with the BoSox in '89 and the Mets in '90, didn't stick with either organization, and was out of baseball for good after the '91 season.
He's from Toledo and Laskey Road is a fairly major road there - I wonder if he comes from a prominent local family or if it's just a coincidence.
GM and backup C: Branch Rickey.
-- MWE
Aside from that, some of the more notable baseball anniversaries given in the link above include: Seattle signing Carlos Silva, Atlanta trading Kevin Millwood for a back up catcher (anyone remember that thread? It was mini-Giamby-Mabry), Cleveland obtains Omar Vizquel, Pittsburgh trades Jay Buhner to the Yankees, Charles O. Finley buys majority control of the A's, Bill Veeck becomes owner of the Sox (for the first time), Connie Mack gains controlling interest in the A's, St. Louis trades player-manager Rogers Hornsby to New York for Frankie Frisch and another guy, a big Yankee-Red Sox trade includes two long-lasting starting pitcher, the original iron man, a star shortstop and others, and a former all-time home run king is born.
TRIVIA QUESTION:
One of the players listed in post #1 was not only born today, but also died today. Can you guess who it is? (For the answer, you can click on the link above, and just skim through the bold items. There's an item listed saying "____ _____ dies on his 72nd birthday"
(Hint: It's not Mike Emeigh).
If you're talking primary owners, in addition to the three RMc mentions you need to add Joan Payson and Lorinda deRoulet of the Mets.
-- MWE
Well, it's got to be either Gabby, Stovey, or Pipgras, as I think every other one is still alive. I'll go with Gabby, since he's by far the best known of the three.
EDIT: Jackie Autry was never principal owner.
EDIT PART II: Sue Burns owned the Giants after husband Harmon Burns passed away.
No kidding. I'd forgotten about him entirely, but it sure looks like he got screwed out of a ROY in 1982 - how often does the top rookie by WAR get zero votes?
I can tell Snowboy that Mike is a great guy to watch a game with.
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