Good morning.
Babe Ruth
signed this baseball ‘to Troop 6,’ and now it’s being auctioned for Scouts –
Eagle Scout Jack Coughlin,
then the 20-something Scoutmaster of Troop 6 out of Larchmont, had to
confiscate the ball so nobody got injured.
But this wasn’t any baseball, Coughlin realized. It was
signed by Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat for the
New York Yankees. The inscription read “To Troop 6 Larchmont Boy Scouts.”
When Coughlin asked the Scouts about the autograph, they said
they assumed all baseballs were signed like that.
Nearly 70 years later, this baseball has found its way from
Troop 6’s equipment box to the Steiner Sports auction house.
Herb Score knew that he owed his life to the patron saint of hopeless causes.
They were loyal to each other. ‘Saint Jude, stay with me.” Lying on the
pitcher’s mound under the lights at Cleveland Municipal Stadium, as 18,000
people in the stands looked on and hundreds of thousands more across Northeast
Ohio and the New York metropolitan area listened on the radio, Herb Score
wondered whether his right eye was still in its socket. That’s where a line
drive off the bat of Yankees shortstop Gil McDougald had
hit him, knocking him down. The ball caromed to the left side of the infield,
and third baseman Al Smith picked it up and
threw to first, for the out, but forget the out — McDougald ran straight to the
mound.
Baseball great Roberto Clemente's widow
, son help with hurricane relief efforts in Houston –
More than a week after escaping her storm-ravaged home in
Puerto Rico, Vera Clemente is helping provide
aid to communities hit hardest by Hurricane Harvey.
Clemente, the widow of baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente, was joined by former Astros
outfielder Jose Cruz and team president Reid Ryan in hosting a volunteer packaging event at
the Houston Food Bank on Friday.
The event will benefit those still recovering
from one of the worst storms in United States history.
Its career has waxed and waned. In the steroid era — the
mid-’90s to 2003, say — players grew beefy and offensive stats ballooned and
homers fell in bunches. Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and
later Barry Bonds broke the single-season
home-run record set by Roger Maris (61). Players
who’d always hit 20 were suddenly hitting 50. Dugouts filled with behemoths who
had giant forearms and necks, monstrous thighs straining the fabric of
monstrous baseball pants. It ruined the aesthetics. Ted
Williams’s fluid elegance turned into something muscular. It separated
players from fans, alienated some of us: These guys looked like members of a
different species.
I don’t happen to think that steroids have
worked their way back in the game like they were in the late 1990s through
2003. I think there are more strength coach approaches to build up solid muscle
mass, which, in the long run, may be as bad for the sport as the roids.
The Mets on Sept. 25 handed out Coca-Cola-branded cards as a
promotional item to fans attending the game. Using the augmented reality
feature embedded in MLB’s Ballpark app, fans could see the Mets’ famous Home
Run Apple rise in center field, as Dori Silverman, Coca-Cola’s marketing
director for sports and entertainment, explained in a National Sports Forum
webinar.
The rising apple leads into a montage of Mets homers
throughout the season, and there were plenty of those to watch — the Mets
slugged 224 total round-trippers to shatter last year’s previous franchise
record of 218.
4 comments:
Score's story was something, I'll say. As Casey would say, "Amazin', simply Amazin'."
Things go better with Coke cards.
Roberto Clemente was pure class - the family as well.
Musculature hurt the Mets in 2017 big-time.
Thomas, I never saw a faster fastball than Score's.
This was such a sad ending to a future Hall Of Fame career.
Faster than Ryan ? Now that’s high praise
I looked up his #s - he was a real shooting star in his career - and always had terrible control, it appears. Tons of walks.
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