Jim Koenigsberger

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"I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson." Monte Irvin. When asked about this quote during a telephone interview in 2006, Monte Irvin, now 87 years old, did not waver, saying: "Oh yeah, Josh was better than those two, better than Mays and Aaron. Josh Gibson acted like a hitter, talked like a hitter, walked like a hitter. He's the best hitter I've ever seen. He would come to the plate and you would be in awe. I almost hate to talk about Josh Gibson. It makes me sad, for one thing, on account of Josh didn't get to play in the major leagues. Then, when you tell people how great he was, they think you're exaggerating. You saw Josh hit and you took your hat off! Monte Irvin. "There`s catcher that any big league club would like to buy for $200,000. His name is Josh Gibson. He can do everything. He hits the ball a mile. He catches so easy he might as well be in rocking chair. Better catcher than bill dickey. Throws like a rifle. Too bad this Gibson is colored fellow." Walter Johnson And unfortunately passed away from a brain tumour at 35 years old, the effects Gibson had suffered headaches and vision problems for a number of years!!!

@nlbmprez @Horkysez @Jimfrombaseball The fact that we are discussing his career all these years later is the testament to his skills as a player. We got to see Mays, Aaron, Banks, etc in MLB and they are all HoFers. It goes to the narrative that Gibson would have had a similar career but who knows…

"When the Homestead Grays catcher suffered a hand injury during a game, Mgr. Judy Johnson, who knew of Josh Gibson's reputation as a terrific semipro player, went into the stands looking for the 18-year-old. "I asked him if he wanted to catch and he said 'yes, sir,' so we had to hold up the game while he went and put on Buck Ewing's uniform. We signed him the next day." Judy Johnson. "One of the things that was disappointing and disheartening to a lot of the black players at the time was that Jackie Robinson was not the best player. The best was Josh Gibson. I think that's one of the reasons why Josh died so early, because he was heartbroken." Larry Doby. "Gibson was built like sheet metal. If you ran into him, it was like you ran into a wall." Teammate "Hooks Tinker, last surviving Gray`s player, who passed away in 2000. Josh Gibson's death did not go unnoticed in the white press, "The Associated Press" characterizing him as "One of the greatest distance hitters in the history of baseball" for blasts that went out of the park at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field.

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@Jimfrombaseball Agreed 👍🏼 “The King David” amazing short stop !!!

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@lynnburgess Excellent news Ms. Burgess!!!

@Jimfrombaseball My goal is to finally learn how to take score.

"A box score is a precisely etched miniature of the sport itself, for baseball, in spite of its grassy spaciousness and apparent unpredictability, is the most intensely and satisfyingly mathematical of all our outdoor sports. Every player in every game is subjected to a cold and ceaseless accounting: No ball is thrown and no base is gained without an instant responding judgment—ball or strike, hit or error, yea or nay—and an ensuing statistic. This encompassing neatness permits the baseball fan, aided by experience and memory, to extract from a box score the same joy, the same hallucinatory reality, that prickles the scalp of a musician when he glances at a page of his score of Don Giovanni and actually hears bassos and sopranos, woodwinds and violins. Roger Angell. "I doubt if there are any two people, fans, writers, or broadcasters, who keep score with identical symbols and systems. I do know that any fan who acquires the habit of scoring his own ball games will find that it adds much to his enjoyment of the pastime." Red Barber. Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable. Scoring a game enables us to more closely see chain of events, domino effect of small events to large that form a baseball game.

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Good work!!

“They tell me that this kid Concepcion can play shortstop with a pair of pliers.” Pete Rose.

"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did." Yogi Berra. Yankees announcer Mel Allen acts as 'Master of Ceremonies' for the first 'Yogi Berra Day' held at Yankee Stadium in 1959. Yogi Berra had to brush aside tears from his eyes as he accepted 59 gifts from the Yankees including a new station wagon, a color television, a watch from Joe DiMaggio, and dancing lessons. Yogi Berra awarded a four year, full tuition scholarship to James Clevens, a Columbia freshman, on "Yogi Berra Day". For this scholarship, Yogi used all the money he received as presents from friends and well-wish-ers on his day at the Stadium. Among those who contributed was Vice-President Richard Nixon. James Clevens, from Lyndbrook, N.Y., graduated from Lyndbrook High School, and was chosen to receive the scholarship by the scholarship committee of Columbia University. Clevens was picked on the basis of scholarship need, and the fact that he is a local boy. Mel Allen, on a Yankee broadcast preceding 'Yogi Berra Day', explained that Yogi wanted to use the money he received to send a needy boy through college because he felt sorry that he himself, never had the opportunity to go to college.

"I came to love Fenway. It was a place that rejuvenated me after a road trip; the fans right on top of you, the nutty angles. And the Wall. That was my baby, the left-field wall, the Green Monster. I loved the game. I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. I never enjoyed it. All hard work all the time." Carl Yastrzemski. In 1967, Carl Yastrzemski (.326, 44, 121), and receiving 19 of 20 first-place votes, is selected American League MVP. With one writer putting Cesar Tovar (.267, 6, 47) on the top of his ballot, the 28 year-old Red Sox outfielder is denied the chance of being the unanimous choice for the award. Children began arriving and camping out on his Yastrzemski's front lawn in Lynnfield, hoping for an autograph in 1967.

In 1912, the Boston Red Sox moved into Fenway, which featured a 10-foot high mound that formed an incline in front of the 25-foot left field wall, now better known as the Green Monster. Duffy Lewis practised catching the ball on the way up the incline and throwing the ball while descending. He mastered fielding on the incline to such an extent that it became known as "Duffy's Cliff". Sports cartoons of the period often depicted him as a mountain climber making catches amid sheep and snowcaps. At the time of his death, Duffy Lewis had no known living relatives and no money, and was buried in an unmarked grave in Holy Cross Cemetery in Londonderry, just outside of Salem. In 2001 a collection was taken up to pay for a headstone, engraving, and upkeep on the plot.

"It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say: 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'" Stan Musial. Stan Musial hit .359/.448/.660 at Ebbets Field in his career!!!!!

When Jackie Robinson reached the Major Leagues with the Dodgers in 1947, he gave hope and a dream to a 13-year-old son of a poor sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta. "Every kid has a dream, and mine was to be a Major Leaguer. When I saw Jackie Robinson go to the big leagues, I knew that was my way of getting out of the cotton field. Jackie Robinson looked to me as if he was 11 feet tall. I think every kid has a dream. My dream was to go into the major leagues, break all the records, and set new ones by the time I was 35 or 36, THEN go sing. That was my plan. I was with the Louisville Clippers, a new team in the league, and they needed money. They sold me and Jesse Mitchell, who still lives there, to the Birmingham Black Barons for money to buy a team bus." Charley Pride. "As an All-Star player in 1956, Charley played against a group of major-league players, the "Willie Mays All‑Stars" that included Willie Mays and Hank Aaron. At the end of the season, these teams barnstormed together all over the south playing exhibition games that the major-league all-stars almost always won. However, one October night in Victoria, TX, Charley sealed a rare victory for the Negro-League All-Stars by closing out a game with 4 innings of shutout ball." Pitcher for the Memphis Red Sox and Birmingham Black Barons, played from 1953-1958. Charley Pride said he had a, "pretty good little curve". Pride was primarily known for his curveball. After spending a couple of years in the Army, he returned to Memphis in 1958 at age 20, and played he Negro Leagues. 3 time Grammy 3 time CMA Award Winner

"We have two lives... The life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness." "The Natural" Bernard Malamud.

Mets Mgr Casey Stengel visits with Yankee Mgr Yogi Berra and CFer Mickey Mantle before 1964 Exhibition game at Shea Stadium.#Mets #Yankees