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R.I.P. Willie Davis

Santiago - 3-10-2010 at 08:37 AM

When I read in this morning's paper that Willie Davis died yesterday a flood of memories overwhelmed me. As a kid I thought Tommy Davis was the finest outfielder alive but over time I came to appreciate just how good Willie was. I don't think anyone keeps this stat, but I'm positive that Willie holds the record of scoring from first on a single. Dude could flat out fly. To paraphrase Mr Gibbons, "He had legs, and knew how to use them...".

jodiego - 3-10-2010 at 08:44 AM

There was nothing more exciting in baseball than watching 3-dog run out a triple. Holds the record for most errors in one inning of a World Series game---3.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/baseball/dodger-great-...

[Edited on 3-10-2010 by jodiego]

rts551 - 3-10-2010 at 09:21 AM

did they have some teams in those days

Martyman - 3-10-2010 at 09:24 AM

I too was a Willie Davis fan. For a while he had a huge afro that made his batting helmut look like a toy. Between him and Maury Wills, the Dodgers had some serious wheels.

Don Alley - 3-10-2010 at 09:27 AM

Yes, those were the days... Koufax, Drysdale and Podres on the mound, Maury Wills, Jim Gilliam, Tommy and Willie manufacturing runs, and the occasional blast from Frank Howard...

Players we grew up with, and that we knew would be around year after year, not like today's game. Guess it's about time to start checking out the Dodgers to see what THIS year's team will look like.

Damn

Dave - 3-10-2010 at 09:31 AM

This just makes me feel old...

Really old.

Hook - 3-10-2010 at 09:40 AM

Too bad he still holds that 3 error record. He was much too good an outfielder to have that attached to him. I think I still remember the game. Two of them were out and out drops of easy flys. It became a mental thing that day.

Looking back, that has to be considered the golden era of the LOS ANGELES Dodgers. All that great pitching (dont forget Perranoski in the pen) and above average players being described by Vin Scully.

wessongroup - 3-10-2010 at 09:45 AM

A passing which is not going without notice... and with a lot of very found memories for all..

It just bring back my favorite part of going to a game, something else I can not do anymore...

Used to just love, when you first walked out of the "walkway" into the seating area... and you first see all that beautiful green grass, the smell, the openness, the largeness of the area that was going to see the game played in... the stadium isn't filled up yet, you get your seats, and then your refreshments.. man, what a treat that used to be.... then on top of that ... getting to watch a game, with those really good players..

Not many games I like to "watch".... have always like to play, more than watch.. but, in this one case Baseball was one sport I could "relax" and watch.. it was such a "social event" with all the folks in the stands.. have watched most other sports.. but, Baseball was just different and folks like Willie just made it that much better to watch..

Thank to all, and Don... the names all bring back good memories.. thanks much.. have a good one everyone.. and it's good to see a fella like Willie going out with style and grace.. no bad thoughts... that's nice.. it was a good day to die :):)

Santiago - 3-10-2010 at 10:03 AM

Speaking of Frank Howard and Ron Perranoski: I once heard Vin Scully tell the story of Spring Training batting practice where Ron was on the mound pitching to Howard. Frank hit a screaming line drive so hard that Ron could do nothing but see, feel and hear it whizz past his head. Everyone was so shaken with the realization that Ron would be dead had the ball been a foot closer that Walter Alston stopped batting practice and had the grounds crew build a barrier out of chain link fencing - the first cage that protected the batting practice pitcher.
OK: I'm missing some positions of the mid-1960 Dodgers:
1: Koufax, Drysdale, Osteen, ??
2: Johnny Rosebough
3: Jim Lefever
4: Jim Gilliam
5: ??
6: Maurry Wills
7: Tommy Davis
8: Willie Davis
9: ??
10: short, middle, long, set-up and closer relief - Ron P.
Who was the 4th pitcher, 3rd base and right field?

lizard lips - 3-10-2010 at 10:11 AM

Bob Lee, a pitcher for the Dodgers, took me to a pre-season game against the Chi Cubs at Blair Field in Long Beach a long time ago and I took Willie Davis's bat that was within arms reach of the stands and still have it today. I was about 12 years old at the time and that bat looked like a friggen fire log. It was huge. Today of course it doesn't look that big. After the game I was in the parking lot getting autographs and as Leo Durocher, the manager of the Cubs at the time, was getting into his car I asked him to sign my program. I'll never forget him telling me to "Get the hell away from my car". A lady nearby started yelling at him saying that these kids look up to you and your nothing more than a big burro. He then got out of his car and signed for every kid there. Then that same woman got into the front seat with Leo and they drove away. It was his wife! She was the one with the balz in the family! What a great day and I will NEVER forget it!

[Edited on 10/14/2009 by lizard lips]

Martyman - 3-10-2010 at 10:53 AM

Wes Parker at first. There was Willie Crawford and Sweet Lou Johnson in the outfield. Frank Howard left around '65?

Hook - 3-10-2010 at 10:56 AM

WHAT A GREAT STORY ABOUT LEO THE LIP, LIZARD LIPS!!!!

To Santiago:

Lefebvre didnt come along till around 65. Dick Tracewski played 2nd on the 63 WS team with Gilliam on 3rd. And Ron Fairly played some RF and 1st base. Also, Moose Skowron played some 1st on the 63 WS team. It was all very fluid as you tried to find a player who could hit over .240 on those teams and play certain positions. I think they still might hold the record for lowest team batting average to win a pennant and/or WS.

Also, Frank Howard in RF was in the mix.

Skipjack Joe - 3-10-2010 at 12:40 PM

They couldn't get a good 4th pitcher until Don Sutton came along.

Anybody remember Phil Ortega and Joe Moeller? Both were in the mix but didn't last.

I was a big Willy Davis fan as well. Nobody played center field like that man. They would pull double steals with him and Maury Will stealing 2nd and 3rd. I remember once Davis stumbling midway to 2nd and running on all fours to get to the base. He had this deep bass voice that came across the radio during the post game show (Scully and Doggett). Always preferred him to Tommy Davis.

Didn't think people would react to Willy this way as there were many other great Dodgers.

It was standard procedure in my room to turn on the radio at 7:30 every night and it would all start (KFI radio 560 on your dial).

P.S. Wally Moon had a couple of good years there before fading.

[Edited on 3-10-2010 by Skipjack Joe]

Mexitron - 3-10-2010 at 12:55 PM

Thanks for the great memories Willie.

Santiago - 3-10-2010 at 01:29 PM

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Hook - 3-10-2010 at 03:46 PM

No big deal, Igor, but KFI was one of the original clear channel stations on 640 AM.

Remember the Blatz Dodger Warm-up show? Blatz beer was a major sponsor of the Dodgers back then.

"I'm from Milwaukee, and I outta know,
that Blatz Beer tastes great,
where ever you go.
All Blatz is draft-brewed,
that's why you'll hear,
Blatz is Milwaukee's finest beer."

I can remember that jingle..................but I will misplace my sunglasses three times today. Go figure.

I shot a video for a guy who played 3rd base for the Dodgers for a short time in 1962. His name was Andy Carey; he also played for the Yankees on a few of their championship teams of the 50s. Anyway, he had organized a baseball camp where a person could pay to go through a spring training type experience being coached by former players and managers. It was really big with corporations to send their execs or the sales staff to these for a week.

Since Carey played for both the Yanks and the Dodgers, his coaches were all from these teams. I worked (and partied afterwards) for a week with Frank Howard, Ron Perranowski, Tommy Davis, Ralph Houk, Billy Connors and others I cant remember. It was a great experience. I got them all to sign a baseball that I must have had for 15 years or so.............until I sold it on ebay before I moved to Mexico in 08.

Is that Willie with Don Sutton?

Santiago - 3-10-2010 at 05:32 PM

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Originally posted by Hook
Is that Willie with Don Sutton?


Bingo - I'll buy the first round.

Ken Bondy - 3-10-2010 at 05:37 PM

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Originally posted by Santiago
Speaking of Frank Howard and Ron Perranoski: I once heard Vin Scully tell the story of Spring Training batting practice where Ron was on the mound pitching to Howard. Frank hit a screaming line drive so hard that Ron could do nothing but see, feel and hear it whizz past his head. Everyone was so shaken with the realization that Ron would be dead had the ball been a foot closer that Walter Alston stopped batting practice and had the grounds crew build a barrier out of chain link fencing - the first cage that protected the batting practice pitcher.
OK: I'm missing some positions of the mid-1960 Dodgers:
1: Koufax, Drysdale, Osteen, ??
2: Johnny Rosebough
3: Jim Lefever
4: Jim Gilliam
5: ??
6: Maurry Wills
7: Tommy Davis
8: Willie Davis
9: ??
10: short, middle, long, set-up and closer relief - Ron P.
Who was the 4th pitcher, 3rd base and right field?


4th pitcher: Jim Brewer, Johnny Podres??
3rd base: Dick Tracewski???
RF: Ron Fairly and Wally Moon??

I think Wes Parker played a lot of first base.

Santiago - 3-10-2010 at 05:53 PM

Oh year, Ron Fairly and Podres.
Now Wally Moon - that guy hit the first major league home run I saw - in the Colosseum before they moved into Chavez Ravine. Remember that high curtain that was in right field as it was only 250' or so? For the three years they played there, Wally got pretty good lifting towering fly palls to right; about 10 feet over the curtain. Had possibly the bushiest mono-eyebrow ever on a humanoid.

Russ - 3-10-2010 at 06:12 PM

dollar-fifty seats! Lots of family fun too! It was just great to go and not dig into the savings account.

MISTER Davis

MrBillM - 3-10-2010 at 06:15 PM

I read the AP story in one paper and, except for the lead and when quoting others, they made a point of saying "MR. Davis" a total of Six times in the short article.

THAT was kind of weird.

On the other hand, the more Lengthy L.A. Times article simply said "Willie Davis" or "Davis" throughout as you would expect. Of course, they also included his 1996 arrest for threatening (while armed with two knives and a Samurai Sword) to kill his mother and father and burn their house down if they didn't give him $5,000.

What was memorable about WD was his speed. Jim Murray once commented on how badly he misplayed fly balls early on, but it wasn't evident because he had the speed to get there and make the play.

This making of lists reminds me once again that people tend to inflate the value of those THEY remember best.

After all, when we're talking about Dodger Center-Fielders, there was once a guy called Duke Snider whose credentials are pretty good.

* Eight-time All-Star (1950–56, 1963)
* Six-time Top 10 MVP
o 1950: 9th
o 1952: 8th
o 1953: 3rd
o 1954: 4th
o 1955: 2nd
o 1956: 10th
* .540 slugging percentage (37th all-time)
* .919 OPS (50th all-time)
* 3,865 total bases (87th all-time)
* 407 home runs (41st all-time)
* 1,333 RBI (77th all-time)
* 1,481 runs scored (74th all-time)
* 850 extra-base hits (65th all-time)
* 17.6 at-bats per home run (59th all-time)
* Dodgers career leader in home runs (389), RBI (1,271), strikeouts (1,123) and extra-base hits (814)
* Holds Dodgers Single-Season record for most Intentional Walks (26 in 1956)
* Only player to hit four home runs (or more) in two different World Series (1952, 1955)
* One of only two major leaguers with over 1,000 RBI during the 1950s. The other was his teammate, Gil Hodges.

AND, speaking of manufacturing runs during the Drysdale/Koufax glory days, Jim Murray also said once that " Drysdale and Koufax could sue the Dodger hitters for Non-Support and have a good case ".

[Edited on 3-11-2010 by MrBillM]

How can you forget....

Howard - 3-10-2010 at 06:16 PM

The brothers, Norm and Larry Sherry.

mulegejim - 3-10-2010 at 06:23 PM

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Help me, who is the other Dodger?

Ken Bondy - 3-10-2010 at 06:26 PM

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Originally posted by mulegejim
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Originally posted by Santiago


Help me, who is the other Dodger?


Isn't that Don Sutton?

mulegejim - 3-10-2010 at 07:00 PM

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Originally posted by Ken Bondy
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Originally posted by mulegejim
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Originally posted by Santiago


Help me, who is the other Dodger?


Isn't that Don Sutton?


That's what I thought but I am not sure. Jim

Howard - 3-10-2010 at 07:23 PM

I don't know who that is but I am 99.97% sure that is not Don Sutton.

What about Joe Pignatano? (sic)

Davis coming in ...

Skipjack Joe - 3-10-2010 at 07:42 PM



williedavis.jpg - 31kB

nobaddays - 3-10-2010 at 07:48 PM

Willie Davis gets a hit and Tommy does the same... here comes Mr Howard with a chance to win the game... hit it once..big Frank bunts?? From Danny Thomas Dodger song 1960's

[Edited on 02/24/2007 by nobaddays]

Ken Bondy - 3-10-2010 at 07:48 PM

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Originally posted by Howard
I don't know who that is but I am 99.97% sure that is not Don Sutton.

What about Joe Pignatano? (sic)


Hard to tell. Sutton might be in that 0.03% :)

Ken Bondy - 3-10-2010 at 07:51 PM

I'm now with Howard in the 99.97% category. The guy in the locker room with Willie has a space between his front teeth, Sutton did not. Also Sutton had very curly hair, the guy in the previous photo seems to have straight hair. I'm goin' with NOT Sutton.

Skipjack Joe - 3-10-2010 at 07:52 PM

That picture was in today's Chronicle. It's Sutton.

Ken Bondy - 3-10-2010 at 07:54 PM

So much for my detailed forensic analysis :)

Don Alley - 3-10-2010 at 08:03 PM

1963... Imagine facing Koufax and Drysdale in a best of seven series... and the third starter, Johnny Podres, was a former World Series MVP.

Dodger fourth starters in those days were Stan Williams, then Bill Miller, I think. If I remember, painfully, it was Williams who came in in a relief appearance against the Giants in the '62 playoff game. My portable transistor radio did not survive that inning.

Yes, Ron Fairly at first. They didn't really have a regular third baseman then, they tried a lot of different guys, I think.

Amazing that Vin Scully is still at it. I saw him frequently; we were neighbors where I grew up but I never had the nerve to ask him for an autograph.

Santiago - 3-10-2010 at 08:42 PM

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Originally posted by Don Alley
Dodger fourth starters in those days were Stan Williams, then Bill Miller, I think. If I remember, painfully, it was Williams who came in in a relief appearance against the Giants in the '62 playoff game. My portable transistor radio did not survive that inning.


Dude: my parents gave me a transistor radio that took a 9 volt battery that they had never seen before (it was BKRSFLD). There was only one store that carried these new fangled batteries. When Mr Williams blew the save I tossed the radio over the fence and cried myself to sleep. The next day I woke up to the sound of my neighbor mowing his back lawn. My dad seriously tanned my hide but the hurt outside didn't match the hurt inside.
It was exactly 40 years before I felt the same pain: 2002 NBA Western Conference Finals when the refs and the Lakers beat my Queens. I didn't cry myself to sleep but I could hear my boys. efing Lakers.....

Hook - 3-10-2010 at 08:47 PM

It was the ears and the nose that gave it away for me.

Yeah, 3rd base was a real black hole for the Dodgers for many years.......really until Cey became a mainstay in the early 70s.

Williams was, indeed, involved in the infamous 9th where the Dodgers had a 2 run lead, only to surrender 4 and lose 6-4.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN196210030.sht...

That managed to top the pain of blowing a 3 game lead with 5 to play in the regular season.

Howard - 3-10-2010 at 08:50 PM

OK, OK, maybe I was off a "few percent" in it not being Don Sutton.

I found the picture in the SF Chronicle and it plainly states that it is Don Sutton.

Do you believe everything you read? I don't! I am, at best, only going to 90% that it is not Sutton. I demand an investigation into this conspiracy.

Are we just going to sit back and let them get away with this injustice?

After reflecting, maybe I should switch to Decafe.

Didn't Sutton get into a club house fight with Steve Garvey over Cindy?

lizard lips - 3-10-2010 at 09:00 PM

It's Sutton. He started to "PERM" his hair when it was the style. It was LA of course!

And that's a piece o' chewin tabacckie between his front teeth.........

[Edited on 10/14/2009 by lizard lips]

Williams

MrBillM - 3-10-2010 at 09:59 PM

Yeah, it was Williams after Roebuck ran dry.

A reporter asked Walter Alston why he brought in Williams rather than Drysdale in Game three and he said he was saving Drysdale for the Series.

Although that was pounded on in the press, it ignored the fact that Drysdale (who had a great season) hadn't been effective in the last weeks.

Of course, the Dodgers were pretty ineffective at the close losing 10 of their last 13 games. Speaking of Howard, I saw him whiff at a ball in one of the St. Louis games that was so LOW and so far OUTSIDE that even his long arms were too short.

For that matter, Koufax got pounded in the Playoff opener.

The Bitterness of the Dodgers loss made seeing the Giants lose to the Yankees all the more satisfying. It was a great series, though, with the whole thing coming down to the final play in game seven. Ball goes through, Giants Win. But it didn't.

Skipjack Joe - 3-10-2010 at 10:03 PM

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Originally posted by Santiago
It was exactly 40 years before I felt the same pain: 2002 NBA Western Conference Finals when the refs and the Lakers beat my Queens. I didn't cry myself to sleep but I could hear my boys. efing Lakers.....


You can blame Vlade Divac on that one for not securing that rebound. And Robert Horry.
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Just thought you might want to remember.

Ken Bondy - 3-11-2010 at 08:47 AM

Anybody here see any Dodger games in the Coliseum? I was there for the first one. In center field, about row 100, 3.5 miles from home plate. But it was great.

Here's a bit of trivia for you baseball fans: In what major league baseball stadium were the most home runs hit in a single season? Nobody EVER gets this. No Googling.

Howard - 3-11-2010 at 09:05 AM

Ken

I was lucky enough (and old enough) that as a little leaguer in Los Angeles, my dad brought me to the Roy Campenella benefit game in 1958 at the Coliseum. We sat just under the clock and we were so far away, but it didn't matter. I went to a MLB baseball game. Not the Hollywood Stars at Gilmore Field, which was around Fairfax and Wilshire or the L.A. Angeles. (Not the Angeles as we now them today)

I think it was Pee Wee Reese wheeled Roy out to the mound and it was very emotional, even for a 12 year old. They played the hated New York Yankees. We sat so far away and so far up that I think I still get nosebleeds to this day!

I brought my glove to the game but they would of had to hit a 2,000 foot home for me to have a chance.

Thank you all for allowing me to go down memory lane.

Anyone remember that game?

My guess is the Astrodome for homers.

Howard - 3-11-2010 at 09:09 AM

I goggled the trivia question and I was wrong about the Stadium. The answer makes perfect sense. Anyone want any hints?

What Year?

Dave - 3-11-2010 at 09:11 AM

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Originally posted by Ken Bondy
Here's a bit of trivia for you baseball fans: In what major league baseball stadium were the most home runs hit in a single season? Nobody EVER gets this. No Googling.


That would help a bit.

DENNIS - 3-11-2010 at 09:16 AM

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Originally posted by Howard
I goggled the trivia question and I was wrong about the Stadium. The answer makes perfect sense. Anyone want any hints?


Colorado Rockies???

Coliseum

MrBillM - 3-11-2010 at 10:43 AM

I attended a number of Dodger games at the L.A. Coliseum on Church group outings. They must have got them Free. Not all that far UP, but Always WAY Down the Right Field Line. Couldn't see Scheisse, but kids always have a good time.

The one game I DIDN'T get to attend was the World Series game in '59 that my Dad got tickets for. Left me at home and went with his drunken friends.

I later "acquired" the "Dodgers '59" record album he'd bought. He died never knowing where that album went to despite rigorous interrogation. A friend once offered me $250 for it. About what it was going for on EBay at the time. But, what can you do with $250 ? Rather have the album and the memory of how I got it and what I paid for it.

"Big bouncer over the mound, over Second, Mantilla up with it. Throws Low and Wild. Hodges Scores. We go to Chicago".

Skipjack Joe - 3-11-2010 at 10:57 AM

My guess is Yankee Stadium, probably in the 30's. But that's an obvious choice. You said it was hard. So that's probably not it.

Martyman - 3-11-2010 at 12:04 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by nobaddays
Willie Davis gets a hit and Tommy does the same... here comes Mr Howard with a chance to win the game... hit it once..big Frank bunts?? From Danny Thomas Dodger song 1960's

[Edited on 02/24/2007 by nobaddays]


More lyrics;
Gilliam up, Miller grunts, Miller throws, Gilliam bunts
Cepeda runs to field the ball, Hiller covers first
Haller runs to back up Hiller
Hiller crashes into Miller
Miller falls drops the ball Conlan calls SAFE!

My lucky, SOB cousin...

Dave - 3-11-2010 at 12:06 PM

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Originally posted by MrBillM
I later "acquired" the "Dodgers '59" record album he'd bought. He died never knowing where that album went to despite rigorous interrogation. A friend once offered me $250 for it. About what it was going for on EBay at the time. But, what can you do with $250 ? Rather have the album and the memory of how I got it and what I paid for it.


Has an autographed baseball from Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays. Same ball. Got it after watching them hit homers at Wrigley Field...in Los Angeles.

Wonder what that's worth. :rolleyes:

DENNIS - 3-11-2010 at 12:22 PM

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Originally posted by Dave

Has an autographed baseball from Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays. Same ball. Got it after watching them hit homers at Wrigley Field...in Los Angeles.

Wonder what that's worth. :rolleyes:


I have thirty or forty just like it. Make me an offer and I'll throw in an Aluminum bat signed by Ty Cobb. :biggrin:

Willie Davis Was a Bajanomad??

Bajahowodd - 3-11-2010 at 02:19 PM

There was a magical time in New York when there were three teams. My grandparents lived a mile from Ebbets Field. I could walk two blocks to the subway and take it to either Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds. The magic? All at the same time center fielders were Duke Snider, Willie Mays, and Mickey Mantle.

Oh, and I believe the home run query is a trick question.:P

That's LIFE

MrBillM - 3-11-2010 at 03:06 PM

Magazine. On EBay:

Sep 28, 1962 (BEFORE the Playoffs) Issue with Don Drysdale (Dodger Strong Arm) on the Cover and a featured article "Wild West Dodgers".

Buy it Now price $14.50

AND

(2) Issues of Sports Illustrated: May 1 1972 issue with Willie Davis on the cover and Aug. 20 1973 issue with Claude Osteen and Bill Russell on the cover.

Starting Bid $1.00. Zero bids so far. Ends 13 March 1105 PST.

[Edited on 3-11-2010 by MrBillM]

Don Alley - 3-11-2010 at 04:01 PM

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Originally posted by Ken Bondy
Anybody here see any Dodger games in the Coliseum? I was there for the first one. In center field, about row 100, 3.5 miles from home plate. But it was great.


I was 7 when the Dodgers came to town, and when I went to my first game at the Coliseum. I don't remember ever being a baseball fan before that. And my dad was never a sports fan. But somehow, I knew there was something special about names like Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Gil Hodges...

Anyway, I was hooked!

So Much For The Tradition

Bajahowodd - 3-11-2010 at 04:38 PM

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/05/sports/la-sp-mccourt...

Hook - 3-11-2010 at 04:42 PM

It's a trick question and has to be a stadium where two teams were using the stadium at the same time.

Could it have been Dodger Stadium or maybe the Coliseum? Was the Polo Grounds ever shared? Connie Mack Stadium?

Hook - 3-11-2010 at 04:45 PM

Did the Browns and the Cardinals share old Sportsman's Park?

Hook - 3-11-2010 at 04:52 PM

If this is something stupid like involving games that were not MLB games, Ken, I am crying foul!

Hook - 3-11-2010 at 04:54 PM

Did the Braves and Red Sox share Fenway at one time?

Bajahowodd - 3-11-2010 at 05:25 PM

Hook, amigo, go Google and give up the fight. It's not pretty.:P

The Polo Grounds Shared ?

MrBillM - 3-11-2010 at 05:32 PM

Yeah, by THE Yankees, senor.

It was the ascendancy of the upstart Yankees with Babe Ruth that ended the sharing. The Yankees were forced to build their own stadium.

That's WHY Yankee Stadium was the house that Ruth built.

Howard - 3-11-2010 at 05:41 PM

Like I said, I gave my guess and was wrong. I then cheated and went to google and found the answer. Come on guys, am I the ony mental idiot? The answer makes perfect sense.

I am sure that someone will get it during happy hour today. You will all be having a non Mexican beer when you find the answer.

Ken started this so it is not fair for me to get too involved, but do any of you weak people out there want a hint?

By the way, I arrive in Loreto March 30 and will be there around 1 week. Anyone going to be at Augies for Happy Hour during that time? I'll buy you a beer!

Bajahowodd - 3-11-2010 at 05:48 PM

Whoa. Isn't Augies, despite is wonderful location on the malecon, not much more than a bunch of old white guys grousing about the fish they didn't catch, while guzzling happy hour beers??:P

Howard - 3-11-2010 at 05:58 PM

Wait one second Howard. I resent being called a guzzler! I sip my beer. I can't help it if I sip my beer at an extremely fast pace.

Howard AKA Bubba

Hook - 3-11-2010 at 06:06 PM

Howard, just tell us............does it involve major league baseball games? This isnt some homer contest plus regular games, is it?

If it doesnt involve bonafide MLB games, then I will quit guessing. I expected this to be REAL baseball trivia.

BTW, once this is over, I will ask my favorite trick trivia question. This will, of course, involve play in MLB.

[Edited on 3-12-2010 by Hook]

Hook - 3-11-2010 at 06:09 PM

Oh gawd, this isnt something from the Japanese League involving Oh, is it?

Howard - 3-11-2010 at 06:43 PM

Once again, I don't mean to leap into Kens question, but it is not a trick question with a genuine answer that you will go, "that makes perfect sense." Think about it, I didn't b-4 I answered incorrectly.

When are you just going to ask for a hint?

jodiego - 3-11-2010 at 07:23 PM

I grew up on the central California coast and was a big Dodgers fan BEFORE they moved to LA. Got up to Frisco a lot to watch the Dodgers play the Giants. Man o man, that was some rivalry back in the 60's. I was at the game when Juan Marichal hit Johnny Roseboro over the head with his bat. All hell broke loose. I remember Roseboro walking all the way down the right field line heading to the clubhouse with a towel over his head to stop the bleeding and 45,000 fans booing him. Could never understand why he was getting booed when he was the one who was attacked. Must have been the uniform.

jodiego - 3-11-2010 at 07:28 PM

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Originally posted by Ken Bondy
Anybody here see any Dodger games in the Coliseum? I was there for the first one. In center field, about row 100, 3.5 miles from home plate. But it was great.


I attended the 1959 All Star Game in the Coliseum. It was one of those rare years when they played 2 All Star Games in one year. I believe the other one was played in Pittsburgh that season. Sat right behind the Chinese Wall in left, where Wally Moon hit all those "Moon Shots".

Bajahowodd - 3-11-2010 at 07:32 PM

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Originally posted by Howard
Once again, I don't mean to leap into Kens question, but it is not a trick question with a genuine answer that you will go, "that makes perfect sense." Think about it, I didn't b-4 I answered incorrectly.

When are you just going to ask for a hint?



# 1- When are you going to stop using my copyrighted name?

#2- I've been to Ebbets Field. have you? :P

Hook

Howard - 3-11-2010 at 07:52 PM

No tricks, no games, it's a real answer.

When you guess this and bring your trivia question, I will break out my mind teaser question.

[Edited on 3-12-2010 by Howard]

Don Alley - 3-11-2010 at 09:05 PM

For the most home runs, I'd guess Coors Field in Colorado. But I hear that the new Yankee ballpark is a hitter's field like Coors.

BUT...for a few years the Dodgers and that other team played in Dodger Stadium. That's the equivalent of two stadiums. The Dodgers were not much for power then, and home plate was a little farther back, but that's a lot of games and Mays, Mantle, McCovey, etc came to visit...

The Polo Grounds... had two teams before the 162 game season, and before Ruth and the surge in home runs. No way.

If I don't hear by tomorrow AM I'm gonna google it!

Howard - 3-11-2010 at 09:50 PM

So Don, in the famous words of Regis Philben, what is your final answer?

Bajawood

Howard - 3-11-2010 at 09:57 PM

Actually, I am pretty sure I have been to Ebbets Filed when I was around 5 years old. My Grandfather who lived in NY took me there. He is since passed away and it could have been the Polo Grounds or maybe Yankee Stadium. I will ask my 94-year Mother but I am pretty sure it was Ebbetts.

As far as the name, make me an offer I can't refuse.

Merlin Olsen

Skipjack Joe - 3-12-2010 at 09:54 AM

Last week it was Willie Davis - this week it's Merlin Olsen.

Our boyhood heros are falling.

Great Ball-Player and .........

MrBillM - 3-12-2010 at 01:20 PM

TV performer ?

When I first heard about his passing, I said to my wife "What TV programs was he in ?" She didn't know, either.

OH, "Little House on the Prairie" and "Father Murphy".

Now, I KNOW why I didn't KNOW.

Bajahowodd - 3-12-2010 at 03:15 PM

Poor Merlin succumbed to one of the nastiest and painful diseases one can imagine. Mesothelioma. It is often considered to be a byproduct of exposure to asbestos, especially when young. Olsen grew up in No.Utah. wonder if there were mining the stuff up there?

Associations and OTHER stuff

MrBillM - 3-12-2010 at 03:21 PM

During the time I was Living on the Beach in the '60s, a close friend's Twelve-Year Old sister died from Lung Cancer. She'd lived her entire Upper Middle-Class life in Inglewood bordering Westchester where the North Runway of LAX is now.

Sometimes, Stuff just happens.

[Edited on 3-12-2010 by MrBillM]

toneart - 3-12-2010 at 03:27 PM

Most home runs-
Coors Field was a good guess because of the altitude.
I am going to take a wild guess: Candlestick Park...wind assisted and Giants had all those heavy hitters; Mays, McCovey, Orlando Cepeda. Of course, that wind could have worked against them too. I saw many home runs there though.:yes:

Hook - 3-12-2010 at 04:51 PM

Well, if this is NOT a trick question involving multiple teams at the same stadium, then I would guess Coors Field before the humidors.

Bajahowodd - 3-12-2010 at 04:58 PM

Maybe it's a tie.

Forget about It

MrBillM - 3-12-2010 at 05:14 PM

The September 28, 1962 issue of Life Magazine, that is. I talked myself into it.

Along with an August 20, 1965 issue of Time Magazine. The Watts riots.

Passed on the Willie D Sports Illustrated.

Heartbroken, I also passed on the Ferrari 308 Dino I was looking at.

Love that EBay, though.

03-13
STILL Life on EBaby.

There are a number of vendors hawking that particular issue, all in the same general price range.

Get yours now.



[Edited on 3-13-2010 by MrBillM]

Hook - 3-13-2010 at 07:28 AM

Just googled it. The straight answer is Coors Field.

I couldn't determine if there was a trick answer involving 2 teams sharing the same stadium.

BONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN-DEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!???????????