May 14, 1957 Dodgers/Braves at County Stadium - This broadcast recorded by Pat Rispole must be heard to be believed. In 6 2/3 innings, Milwaukee starter Bob Buhl walked nine, gave up five hits, and came away with a 3-2 victory. In the sixth inning, Buhl walked the bases loaded with none out. Roy Campanella lifted a fly ball to Braves' right fielder Hank Aaron for the first out of the inning. Carl Furillo, the Dodger runner at third, was anchored to the bag even though Hank Aaron's throw was to third base. Vin Scully, mentioning to his listeners that the Dodgers had squandered a gift run, described Furillo angrily kicking the third base bag after the play was over. The baserunning gaffe was highlighted when Buhl struck out Don Zimmer and retired Don Newcombe on a pop fly to shortstop Johnny Logan to end the inning. The Dodgers scored two runs in the seventh, but the squandered chance in the sixth proved costly in a 3-2 Dodger defeat. Newcombe pitched effectively, but got the loss. - link
Mike Cameron is 37 years old and prone to striking out. The tendency has worsened in recent years, to the screechy tune of one whiff every 3.4 at-bats since 2007. Not to pick on Cameron, whose career will put him on Hall of Fame ballots, but you wonder how many Ks he'll amass now that he's in the Big Boy League's best division -- the American League East -- after playing the last six years in the Little Boys League. The good news for the Sox is that Cameron remains one of baseball's remarkable athletes. "We tested all of our players," says Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein. "He finished a tick behind [left fielder] Jacoby Ellsbury -- second out of everyone in camp -- in all of the quickness and agility testing. He was second in the vertical [jump-. He was second in quickness -- the 10-yard dash, 30-yard dash, all that stuff. - link
Royce Ring forces himself not to ponder all the what-if situations during this final week of Yankees’ camp, while Boone Logan wonders when the suspense will end. “I’m not really anxious,” Logan said. “It’s more, ‘Just tell me already - let me know something.’ ” The battle to become the second left-hander in manager Joe Girardi’s bullpen might not be decided until Friday, two days before the season opener. Of course, there’s also the scenario where neither could make the club. At this point, “There’s always that thought of, ‘Is it enough?’ Or, ‘Does it even matter?’ ” Logan said. The candidacy of both left-handers could be affected if the Yankees choose to keep Sergio Mitre as the long man. But as well as Logan and Boone have pitched this spring, it could come down to a choice between them. — Bergen Record - Ben
High hopes were a hallmark of the career of Ken Henderson. In 1965, as a 19-year-old Giant outfielder, he was tabbed (we are reminded by James Hirsch’s monumental current work) “the next Willie Mays,” which is always the kind of tag with which you want to saddle a kid. Henderson never turned into Mays, but he turned out all right, serving as a solid outfielder in San Francisco and a few other teams. In 1978, as a 32-year-old newly minted Met, Henderson was off to a reasonably promising start: not Willie Mays, but certainly a decent complement to Willie Montañez, who came over in the same four-way trade the previous December. The promise was never fulfilled, however. In Henderson’s seventh game, April 12, he crashed into Shea’s right field fence, did a number on his left ankle and that was that for K-K-Kenny and the Mets. He’d go on the DL and then to Cincinnati for Dale Murray, a reliever who made a lot of opposing hitters look like the next Willie Mays. - link
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