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On this day in 1939...
H the K wrote:
Richard Casady wrote: On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:37:19 -0400, HK wrote: Amazing. Before my time, yet I know who DiMaggio and Feller were, and I can't name one of today's baseball players. I know who Feller is because he is from the Des Moines area. DeSoto. There is a bar and restaurant there that I go to. Didn't he have the onetime fastest fastball, 100 MPH. Heard that as a kid fifty years ago. Casady I remember references to Feller as the strikeout king. He's still alive, I think. When I worked for the KC Star, I got to go to lots of KC Athletics (big deal, eh?) games, either on the paper's "freebie" tickets or because I was assigned on a slow news night to write a "color" story by the assistant city editor, who was a former sports editor and writer. The sports desk, of course, covered the game and the players and the intrigue. I got to write about the fans and what they were doing. Despite the fact that it was the Athletics, I did get to see some great baseball games and some memorable players, including the one game Satchel Paige pitched. I was assigned to interview the old "Negro League" players who showed up to watch Paige. These games were in the good old days, when the baseball stadium was downtown, only a few blocks from both the newspaper offices *and* Bryant's Barbecue, which many consider the best barbecue in the world. The proximity of good barbecue was damned important to the guys in the sports box. Don't forget my fries: http://www.arthurbryantsbbq.com/our_...andwich352.mpg Exactly how I remember it. |
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