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Nick Lanese
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My first Indians game September 1959, eight years later playing QB in Charity game the second last one in the City that started in 1931.
Katılım Temmuz 2012
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"His Mgr. was concerned over Hack Wilson's heavy drinking.
"Hack, when I put a worm in a glass of water nothing happens to it.
But when I put it in a glass of whiskey it dies.
What does that tell you?"
Hack's response:
"That I'll never get worms from drinking whiskey?"
"I never played drunk.
Hung over, yes, but never drunk.
When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one."
Hack Wilson.
"He was built along the lines of a beer keg and not unfamiliar with its contents." Shirley Povich on "Hack" Wilson.
The Washington Post.
"For a brief span of a few years, this hammered down little strongman actually rivalled the mighty Babe Ruth."
Wilson was 5'6", 190 lbs, with an 18" collar and a size 51/2 shoe.
Hack STILL holds the record for most RBI in one season, 191 RBI in 1930.
No player has gotten within 16 RBI of his mark since Jimmy Foxx, (175) in 1938, only Lou Gehrig (185) and Hank Greenberg (184) ever came close.
In 1930, Hack Wilson slugged 56 HR , walked 105 times, slashed .356/.454/.723, a 1.177 OPS and a 177 OPS+.....AND 191 RBI!
A man identified only as a “white male” passed away in a Baltimore hospital.
No one came forward to claim the body.
There was no money for a coffin.
No funeral was planned.
All that was known is that the man appeared to have died of alcohol abuse.
National League President Ford Frick claimed his body.
Sending a check for $350, Frick paid for Hack Wilson’s funeral services, including the cost of his coffin.
His gray burial suit was donated by the undertaker.
It was later determined that Hack Wilson died from complications of Auto-Brewery Syndrome, also known as Gut Fermentation Syndrome.
Wilson's 56 home runs with the Cubs in 1930 was the National League record for 68 years and his 191 RBI is a mark yet to be surpassed.

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@Jimfrombaseball My first game visiting Grandparents in St. Louis on July 31, 1960 saw Robin Roberts pitch second game of Doubleheader. Tagged s few fastballs for three homers one by Hall of Famer Stan Musial. The other two Bill White and Joe Cunningham.
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"When Robin Roberts won, he was gracious.
When he lost, so often in extra innings with his teammates giving him no runs, he did not pout.
Day after day he went out there and threw that high, hard one down the middle, a marvellously coordinated man doing his job.
If he had pitched for the Yankees he might have won 350 games."
Author James A. Michener.
"That high, hard one down the middle!!!!!!!!!"
"You don't have to make a big study of batters beforehand.
When I have good stuff, I throw four fastballs out of five pitches.
When you take up a hitter in a clubhouse meeting, no matter what his weakness is, it's going to end up low and away or high and tight, and the curve ball must be thrown below the belt.
That's the whole story of pitching.
Keep your life and your pitching real simple and you’ll get along.
I never slept when I lost.
I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes.
I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy."
Robin Roberts.
"He was like a diesel engine.
The more you used him, the better he ran.
I don’t think you could wear him out."
Curt Simmons.
In 1952, Robin Roberts had his best season, going 28-7 with a 2.59 ERA over 330 innings.
Roberts won his last eight starts of the season, ALL COMPLETE GAMES, including a 17-inning performance against the Braves.
Amassed a streak of 28 STRAIGHT complete games during the 1952 and 1953 seasons.
In his career, Robin Roberts pitched 305 COMPLETE games, 45 shutouts, 4,688+2⁄3 innings pitched in 676 games.

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@NFLHuddleUp @ArdillaRules @Browns @ProFootballHOF @NFL Didn’t have 1400 yards in 1962. Came up four short of a thousand. Jim Taylor was the leader in rushing. Watched Browns game vs 49ers and hoping but came up short. 12312 yards is correct.
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The greatest running back to ever do it.
Jim Brown didn’t just dominate — he rewrote the record books in only 9 seasons.
Follow @NFLHuddleUp to resurrect legends like him.
#NFL 🏈 #History #Football #Browns #Cleveland

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@DecDitko75 @MLFootball @PatsBuzz @itmekaralee @jerrythornton @TitleTalkTCL @FitzyGFY @JumboHart Never heard of her till now.
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@MLFootball @PatsBuzz @itmekaralee @jerrythornton @TitleTalkTCL @FitzyGFY @JumboHart I’m not gonna play on this one because I actually like Rachel.
Before the scandal Russini barely made my radar.
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@FBGreatMoments With Ninowski at QB this could be 1962. A rare highlight in a drubbing by the Colts.
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@VizquelOmar13 @CleGuardians @Baerga99 @MLB Steve Farr and Steve Howe the pitchers . Privilege to be there!
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What a great memory of my friend and teammate Carlos Baerga in 1993
2 Homeruns in one inning batting with both hands!
El Primer Pelotero es meter HR a la derecha y a la zurda en el mismo Inning.
@CleGuardians @Baerga99 @MLB
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@eweissunburied @nickpopemod Condolences to you and family and friends. 🙏
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My heart is breaking -- Nick (@nickpopemod) passed away this afternoon at our home. The last few weeks of his life, even as he suffered, he managed to do a few interviews from home. I was so lucky to have met and to have married Nick. He was a wonderful husband. I loved him dearly.

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@JohnWilharm3 @MrCleveland_216 Yes I was there w my 14 year old son and ten year old daughter. 8-1 Yankees This brings chills again
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@Jimfrombaseball @BobPagesports In this case a 105 year sentence is long enough.
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"I walked out of Judge Dever's courtroom in Chicago in 1921, I turned my back completely on the World Series of 1919, the Chicago White Sox, and the major leagues.
I had been acquitted by a twelve-man jury in a civil court of all charges and I was an innocent man in the records.
I have never made any request to be reinstated in baseball, and I have never made any campaign to have my name cleared in the baseball records.
This is not a plea of any kind.
This is just my story.
I'm telling it simply because it seems that 30 years after that World Series, the world may want to hear what I have to say.
If I had been the kind of fellow who brooded when things went wrong, I probably would have gone out of my mind when Judge Landis ruled me out of baseball.
I would have lived in regret.
I would have been bitter and resentful because I felt I had been wronged.
But I haven't been resentful at all.
I thought when my trial was over that Judge Landis might have restored me to good standing.
But he never did.
And until Landis died, I had never gone before him, sent a representative before him, or placed before him any written matter pleading my case.
I gave baseball my best and if the game didn't care enough to see me get a square deal, then I wouldn't go out of my way to get back in it.
Baseball failed to keep faith with me.
When I got notice of my suspension three days before the 1920 season ended -- it came on a rained-out day -- it read that if found innocent of any wrongdoing, I would be reinstated. If found guilty, I would be banned for life.
I was found innocent, and I was still banned for life."
"Shoeless Joe" Jackson.
"Hey, big mouth, how do you spell triple?"
Shoeless Joe Jackson`s response to a heckling Cleveland fan who kept asking the illiterate Jackson if he could spell 'illiterate.'
After hitting a triple, this was his response.
In my HOF!!!!!

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@MrCleveland_216 A sad day. Big loss to Yankees and prayers for Steve Olin and Tim Crews. 🌹
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