![]() Mark Armour (Rise/Fall of Artificial Turf)ĭavid Appelman (Pitchers, Pitch by Pitch) Rybarczyk ('09 Hit Tracker Projections)Ĭraig Calcaterra (Frivolity, Part I, Part II)ĭan Levitt (Empirical Analysis of Bunting) Harry Pavlidis (Johan Santana's Fast Start)īaseball Analysis at Tufts (Groundballers)īaseball Analysis at Tufts (GB Out Rates) Stan Opdyke (Baseball Radio in NYC, 1953)īrent Mayne (The Intangibles of Catching) He loved it so much that he actually sought out cards of a few of the players featured, notably Terwilliger and the unmistakable Don Mossi, both of which are sitting on my desk as I type this.Mark Armour (H. As of this writing, it appears to be in-stock at Amazon, though that wasn’t the case as recently as last month.Įditor’s note: I was provided a free copy of this book by my Dad. It’s long out of print, so grab one wherever you can. He deserved more than the one championship season he got.” Richie Ashburn: “You could always count on Richie Ashburn. If you can pick out a thread running through all that, then you are definitely a better man than I.”Įmory Church: “Bubba bubba bubba bubba bubba bubba bubba bubba bubba bubba bubba.” (Ed note, it’s literally a whole page of bubbas). WIllie Jones: “Willie Jones was nicknamed Puddin Head after a song popular in his youth, and the name was somehow appropriate as a description of this slow-moving third baseman from South Carolina.”Įarl Torgesen: “Earl Torgesen’s favorite activities were fist-fighting and breaking his shoulder, both of which he did whenever he got the chance.”Įlmer Valo: “What I will always remember ELmer Valo for will be his spectacular catches in deep left field in Connie Mack Stadium, catches that inevitably had him crashing into the wall and crumpling dazed to the ground, with his glove in the air and the ball still in it.”Ĭal McLish: “Cal McLish’s full name was Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish. Ryne Duren: “He also annually led the league in bad eyesight.” And there’s no shortage of them-no shortage of Phillies, either.īo Belinsky: “.the originator of the poolside spring training press conference for non-roster relief pitchers.” The authors do spend pages reminiscing-read, describing in colorful language-on their childhood collection of baseball cards, and the subsequent things they might have done to make modern day collectors faint.Īnd, somberly, how we all grow out of childhood, and some of us aren’t lucky enough to keep our childhood collections.īut the cards are the best part. That’s not all there is to this book, of course. Of course what made it even better was that he played for some of the worst Washington Senator teams of the early fifties, teams consisting of entire rosters of utility men. He always loked to me like the sort of guy you might send for to unplug a drain in a large apartment house. And certainly nobody could argue the fact that he had a utility man’s name. He also looked like a utility man-he had a utility man’s face, a utility man’s build, and a utility man’s outlook on life. ![]() ![]() ![]() He had a good disposition, was always sober, and liked to pitch batting practice-in other words, a manager’s dream. He wouldn’t help you out very much but he wouldn’t embarass you either. He couldn’t hit his hat size, but he could field every position.
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