BS: I Like Baseball

Subject: RE: BS: I Like Baseball
From: GUEST,Frankie
Date: 28 Apr 00 - 11:48 PM

I'll take a stab: 1. Sal Maglie 2. Mitch Williams(?).Bobby Cox. Still in Atlanta. 3.Chuck Connors 4.Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys 5. Yogi and Joe Garragiola

Subject: RE: BS: I Like Baseball
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 28 Apr 00 - 11:09 PM

Thanks for the thread JenEllen.

Baseball is my PASSION...even in these watered down days. Through the game (and it's literature) I've learned SO MUCH about people (and myself).

At school, I was so shy as to be virtually invisible, but through Little League and Pony and Babe Ruth League, I took on a completely different personality...outgoing, loud at times, analytical regarding how the game was played, and COMPETITIVE!

In Canada, after Babe Ruth league, came nuthin', so that was it for me. Oh, I got to go to a Cubs tryout camp in Montreal one year, threw three pitches and had two of them knocked over the wall by the tough inner-city French kids. Adios dreams!

I still read "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton ('bout 50 times now) and if my fanaticism is in doubt...I dedicted one of my albums to him! About 6 years ago while we were watching TV, the phone rang. Heather picked it up and spoke for about a minute, then passed it over to me saying, "It's some guy named "Bouton"...do ya wanna talk to him?" I Bloody near fainted!! Someone in New Jersey had seen the dedication on the album and told him about it, and he was calling to say thank you! I could have died happily right then.

Rick's Baseball Quizzzz Part one. The simple questions. If anyone gets into it, then harder ones will follow.

#1.What pitcher did Don Larsen beat in "the perfect game" of '56.

#2.Joe Carter took "the wild thing" over the wall for the championship in '92. Who was the "the wild thing"? Who was the losing Mgr.? Where does he manage today?

#3. What Dodger farmhand became a big TV star?

#4. What band hired musicians partly on their ability to play baseball?

#5. Two great baseball personalities came from "the Hill" in StLouis. Both were catchers. Both were funny. One tried to be. The other didn't. Name 'em.

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: I Like Baseball
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Apr 00 - 11:07 PM

I posted at the tail end of the "Steve" thread, but Leej....I know.

As a kid I got to see a lot of greats. Teams visiting at the Indians, the occasional Cincy game, but we were an American League family. I miss the players who truly played because they loved the game. There are so few today. I wanted to catch like Jim Hegan, play third like Brooks, make the bat crack loudly like The Mick. I posted all this elsewhere.........

There are some great players in the game today, but the big money has changed the game and those who play it. Not many would make my "Modern Era" Fantasy Team.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: I Like Baseball
From: Mbo
Date: 28 Apr 00 - 10:47 PM

Man, when I go home tomorrow, I'll post a hilarious baseball song, a parody on Casey at The Bay, called Hrbek at the Bat--a riot!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: I Like Baseball
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 28 Apr 00 - 09:46 PM

In 1960, my family moved from the LA area back to the place of my birth in Kentucky. The only piece of California that I really clung to was the Dodgers. My God, what a team. I lived and died with them in those classic World Series' with the hated Yankees. What hitting...Duke Snider, Gil Hodges, Maury Wills. And the pitching! Don Drysdale, Larry Sherry, and the greatest of all time, Sandy Koufax! I was one rabid 11 year old fan, my eyes focussed on that old black and white screen, willing the Dodgers to win. And you know, despite all that talent, I'm really not sure they could have done it without me.

Subject: RE: BS: I Like Baseball
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Apr 00 - 09:26 PM

I think it comes from being in New York ... a kinda' "better than any simple hick place" attitude. Then again, maybe it was a Shit Out and he Yankees were stoked up on Corned Beef and Cabbage. Or maybe a passing airliner dumped the storage tank over the stadium and they WERE in fact Shit Out of the place.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: I Like Baseball
From: JenEllen
Date: 28 Apr 00 - 08:35 PM

Here ya go Spaw.....fer you darlin'.....thanks Judy! ~Elle

Subject: I Like Baseball
From: JenEllen
Date: 28 Apr 00 - 08:25 PM

Okay, so it's all agreed we're Missin' Steve, but where are the baseball songs? Forgive me, and it's not meant as a gender slam in any way, but this one is for the girls.....

Summertime of '61, every Saturday
I'd take my own Spaghettios for dinner and I'd stay
My granddad was a quiet man doing crosswords in the chair
But he'd become a rabid fan with baseball on the air

We listened to the radio, we watched them on TV
Can't say I understood but it was magical to me
Especially the Yankees, we cheered for every move
And all those hours of Mickey Mantle finally would prove.......

That I like baseball, I watch it on the tube
I buy my tickets at the dome, go in and come unglued
I've been to Dodgers Stadium, seen the Sox at old Fenway
Oh I like baseball, even though I do not play

I had an uncle in New York who seemed to understand
One day he came to see us with presents in hand
He gave me not your usual doll, but cast in plaster of Paris
His bobbing head upon a spring, my idol, Roger Maris

But we girls weren't taught to throw the ball
The way that pitchers do
No matter how I swung the bat I only hit a few
Projectiles falling from the sky put fear into my heart
Too slow to run the bases well, it doomed me from the start
But I like baseball.....even though I cannot play

However, can you tell me just who it is to blame
That not since the '50's have women played the game
If they ever get a commissioner, the first thing she should do
Is put us back in uniform and we'll play hardball too
'Cause I like baseball....even though they don't let us play

Someday I'll be in heaven or in some such place above
And at the end of my outstretched wing will be a fielder's glove
I'll be batting homers completely out of sight
Me and Randy Johnson, we'll pitch at the speed of light
'Cause I like baseball...even though I do not play