rush.long.rec.yds.long.TD.comb yds
7468 84 370 3887 84 73 13031 HW
5950 51 350 3156 66 76 09144 CF
1518 33 020 0731 18 03 03887 difference
Our car repair shop in Roswell will oftentimes not charge me for work on the car. In November they were trying to fix a problem with the Jeep, and ordered a $400 replacement part. When the replacement part didn’t fix the problem, they put the old part back in and didn’t charge me. On the way home the problem went away, and hasn’t come back since.
Tuesday morning Ceil took our new car to the shop to check it out, while we still have the chance to take it back if something was wrong. They looked at it for 30 minutes and gave us the thumbs up. No charge.
BABE RUTH [SABR Bio] “built” Yankee Stadium, though the actual contractor was Osborn Engineering. Ruth was called up to the Red Sox at the same time as Carl Mays. In the book “The Pitch that Killed”, Mays' BOS debut is nicely detailed. Mays & Ruth were brought to Boston from the minors, and shared a taxi into the city for Mays's first taste of city life. Ruth had already had a brief stint with the Sawx, so he blustered like a veteran while Mays shrank and tried to remain as invisible as possible. They both made their mark as members of the '15 BOS staff. Ruth dreamed of managing a Major League team, but it wasn’t to be. Immediately following his playing days, Ruth was twice lured to NL jobs with the possibility of the manager’s job made to seem likely. History has shown that neither the Braves nor the Dodgers intended for the Babe to be anything but a draw at the gate.
ROY OSWALT [B-R Bio] the pitcher’s arm ailment was cured when he was shocked while changing a spark plug in his truck. In 1999 when Oswalt was with the Class A Michigan Battle Cats in the Midwest League, he suffered an apparently serious shoulder injury. After a month of pain in his upper shoulder, Oswalt was convinced his shoulder was torn. Shortly thereafter, he was checking the spark plug wires on his pickup truck when he touched one of the bare ones, causing the truck's engine to start. The truck’s electric current flowed through Oswalt's body, tightening the muscles in his hand on the spark plug wire. Unable to let go of it, he grasped the wire for almost a full minute. Then his foot slipped off the truck's bumper and he was finally thrown off. "My truck done shocked the fire out of me, and my arm don't hurt no more.” The electric charge had loosened scar tissue in his shoulder. Oswalt claims he has not felt any pain in his shoulder since the incident. He was the wide receiver and safety for Weir High School, Mississippi’s state champion for 1994. Oswalt finished a strong second behind Pujols for NL ROY in 2001, though Pujols captured all the first place votes.
The best non-hall-of-famer at every position, by Matt Kelly a New Yorker/Ithaca College/Buffalo Bills dude. I’ve posted a similar list before, but heck I’ve got this one all typed up so here you go.
C: Freehan, Munson, Tenace, Posada
1B: Palmeiro, McGwire, McGriff, Helton, Hodges
2B: Whitaker, Kent, Grinch, Utley
3B: Dick Allen, Rolen, Nettles, Ken Boyer, Bando, Beltre
SS: Vizquel, Dahlen, Garciaparra, Tejeda, Fregosi, ARod
LF: Bonds, Rose, Manny, Minoso
CF: Lofton, Andruw, Edmunds, Murphy, Wynn, Beltran
RF: Joe Jackson, Sosa, Dwight Evans, Reggie Smith, Tony Oliva, Gary Sheffield, Dave Parker, Bobby Abreu, Ichiro
DH: Hal McRae, Don Baylor
RHP: Clemens, Schilling, Tiant, Stieb, Kevin Brown, Cone, Hershiser, Oswalt, Cicotte, Lincecum
LHP: Johan Santana, Pettitte, Buehrle, Guidry, Tommy John, Kaat, Lolich, Key, Sabathia
RHRP: Quisenberry, Foulke, Tom Gordon, Henke, Marberry, Percival, Tekulve, Wetteland, Nathan, Papelbon
LHRP: Wagner, Franco, Lyle, McGraw, Myers
Fun story about a game-ending 5-6-4-3 triple play, turned 9/7/1935 by the Indians to beat the Red Sox.
https://www.mlb.com/news/odell-hale-triple-play-off-head
Interesting article. Opponents may roll their eyes and scroll past. I challenge you to read these details with an open mind.
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