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Monday, March 20, 2023

Bo & Herschel: Trading Places

How to make a ton of impressions on Twitter: comment on a Super 70's Sports post. Who did I think was a lock for the hall of fame? I'd been staying away from making Herschel posts due to his political volatility, but this seemed like a perfect opportunity. Most all the responses were getting a large number of impressions, as did mine.

Thought: if Bo Jackson had never played baseball, but had Herschel's football career - gaining more pro yards than anyone in history, retiring with the second-most combined yards in NFL history, setting the franchise  rookie receiving record, the first player with a 90+ yard rush, reception, and return, the only player with an 80+ yard rush and reception in the same game, the monumental trade that yielded the Cowboys 18 players/picks and three Super Bowl titles - then Bo would've been inducted into the pro football hall of fame. Makes me think that had Herschel signed with Nike, that marketing might've been the difference in getting Walker into of fame.

Small group tonight, on I John 3.

Verse 18: "Little children, let us not love in word or talk, but in deed and in truth."

Verse 11-12: "For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous."

Sal Maglie was the losing pitcher in Don Larsen's 2-0 perfect game in the 1956 World Series on 08-Oct-1956. Maglie was relieved by Larry Jansen, when Jansen secured the win for the Giants when Bobby Thomson hit the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" on 03-Oct-1951.

Willie Montanez had the most hits in a season in which he was traded, with 206 in 1976. In April 1970 he was sent to the Phillies with pitcher Bob Browning as compensation for Curt Flood’s historic failure to report the previous October.

Clem Labine was the first pitcher to earn a save at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, for starter Carl Erskine on 18-Apr-1958  Labine was one of the “Boys of Summer”. He pitched a complete game shut-out against the Giants the day before Bobby Thomson’s famous home run. Like Napoleon Lajoie, he was a Rhode Island native, but the descendent of French Canadians.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/sports/baseball/02cnd-labine.html?_r=1&ref=sports&oref=slogin

In 1961 Sandy Koufax broke Christy Mathewson’s modern-day NL season strikeout record of 267 in 1903 with Koufax’s 269. Mathewson would not normally pitch on Sundays, in accordance with his mother's wishes.

Ty Cobb stole second, third, and home in the same inning three times in his career. He holds the career record for steals of home.

George Sisler was the only player to hit for the cycle twice for the Browns, on 08-Aug-1920 and 13-Aug-1921. He holds the record for highest season batting average among first basemen: 420 in 1922.

When Babe Ruth got his $52,000 contract in 1922, Maryland native Frank Baker was the next-highest-paid Yankee, at $16,000.

Nap Lajoie committed five errors in a game. He once broke his hand trying to punch a teammate, earning a five-week suspension without pay for it.

Duke Snider hurt his arm trying to throw a ball out of the Los Angeles Coliseum. He was the first captain of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Hank Bauer set the record of hitting in 17 straight World Series games. He was the youngest of 9 children and wore clothes made from old feed sacks as a child. His nose was permanently damaged playing high school basketball. As a Marine in World War II, he contracted Malaria, earned two Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts. When asked about the time out of his baseball career that he had lost to military service, he responded, "I guess I knew too many great young guys who lost everything out there to worry about my losing part of a baseball career." 

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/baseball/16663076.htm

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