The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #58304   Message #924981
Posted By: Mark Cohen
02-Apr-03 - 11:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Baseball
Subject: RE: BS: Baseball
Pseudolus, I'm right there with you, man, soft pretzel, Ballantine Beer, and all. But who are those guys? Sorry, all I've been able to hear on the radio for the last 8 years here in Hawaii is the Giants (who were, it should be told, my second favorite team as a kid). I'm still basking in the days of Jim Bunning, Chris Short, John Callison, Richie (that's right, Richie) Allen, Tony Taylor...hell, I still remember all their numbers! (32, 41, 6, 15, and 8, since you asked.) And what's this I hear about a new stadium? What's wrong with Shibe Park? (Actually it had already been renamed Connie Mack Stadium when I went there, but my dad always called it Shibe Park.)

Aloha,
Mark

Oh, and Bobert, your dates are a teeny bit off. I saw Roberts pitch in the first Phillies game I ever went to, but that was, I believe, in '60 or '61. He retired before the '64 season. We had the aforementioned Bunning and Short...and not too much else. Art Mahaffey? John Boozer? puh-lease! And Rick Wise was just an 18-year-old rookie--but a good one.