On this day in 1939...
 

....the American League beat the National League 3-1 before 62,000 fans
gathered at Yankee Stadium for the All-Star game. Highlights included a
top-drawer pitching game by Bob Feller and a homer by Joe DiMaggio.

Amazing. Before my time, yet I know who DiMaggio and Feller were, and I
can't name one of today's baseball players.

DiMaggio retired in 1951. I never got to see him play. But I did get to
see his "replacement" play many times. The replacement, of course, was
"the Mick," Mickey Mantle.

On this day in 1939...
 

"HK" wrote in message
...
...the American League beat the National League 3-1 before 62,000 fans
gathered at Yankee Stadium for the All-Star game. Highlights included a
top-drawer pitching game by Bob Feller and a homer by Joe DiMaggio.

Amazing. Before my time, yet I know who DiMaggio and Feller were, and I
can't name one of today's baseball players.

DiMaggio retired in 1951. I never got to see him play. But I did get to
see his "replacement" play many times. The replacement, of course, was
"the Mick," Mickey Mantle.



That is because you spend all your time on the net and do not have a life.

On this day in 1939...
 

Calif Bill wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
...
...the American League beat the National League 3-1 before 62,000 fans
gathered at Yankee Stadium for the All-Star game. Highlights included a
top-drawer pitching game by Bob Feller and a homer by Joe DiMaggio.

Amazing. Before my time, yet I know who DiMaggio and Feller were, and I
can't name one of today's baseball players.

DiMaggio retired in 1951. I never got to see him play. But I did get to
see his "replacement" play many times. The replacement, of course, was
"the Mick," Mickey Mantle.



That is because you spend all your time on the net and do not have a life.




We've been to at least a half-dozen major league games so far this
season...how many have you been to see?

None of the players we saw this year really stand out.

Hell, the 1939 American League all-stars included DiMaggio, Feller,
Crosetti, Cronin, Greenberg, Grove, Foxx, Gehrig, et cetera.

Even the players of my youth are more memorable than today's players. We
used to go to lots of Dodgers and Yankee games. We went to the 1960
all-stars game #2 at yankee stadium, and saw, among others, Aaron,
Banks, Matthews, Mays, Mazeroski, Berra, Mantle, Maris, and even Ted
Williams.

What were you doing in your teen years, Bilious? Chucking Coors?

On this day in 1939...
 

HK wrote:



We've been to at least a half-dozen major league games so far this
season...how many have you been to see?


Based upon your posting history, you must have stayed for less than half
an inning.

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On this day in 1939...
 

"HK" wrote in message
m...

We've been to at least a half-dozen major league games so far this
season...how many have you been to see?



Must have WiFi at the stadium.

Eisboch

On this day in 1939...
 

On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:07:58 -0700, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"HK" wrote in message
...
...the American League beat the National League 3-1 before 62,000 fans
gathered at Yankee Stadium for the All-Star game. Highlights included a
top-drawer pitching game by Bob Feller and a homer by Joe DiMaggio.

Amazing. Before my time, yet I know who DiMaggio and Feller were, and I
can't name one of today's baseball players.

DiMaggio retired in 1951. I never got to see him play. But I did get to
see his "replacement" play many times. The replacement, of course, was
"the Mick," Mickey Mantle.

That is because you spend all your time on the net and do not have a life.

Nah - he's been reading the Washington Times.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...-still-shinin/

A slightly different version of cut 'n paste.

On this day in 1939...
 

Yogi of Woodstock wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:07:58 -0700, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
...
...the American League beat the National League 3-1 before 62,000 fans
gathered at Yankee Stadium for the All-Star game. Highlights included a
top-drawer pitching game by Bob Feller and a homer by Joe DiMaggio.

Amazing. Before my time, yet I know who DiMaggio and Feller were, and I
can't name one of today's baseball players.

DiMaggio retired in 1951. I never got to see him play. But I did get to
see his "replacement" play many times. The replacement, of course, was
"the Mick," Mickey Mantle.
That is because you spend all your time on the net and do not have a life.

Nah - he's been reading the Washington Times.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...-still-shinin/

A slightly different version of cut 'n paste.


You're always the snarky moron, eh, Tom? So sorry, not cut and pasted
from the Washington Times. Hey...what's the GPH burn on that "new" barge
of yours? Can you get up to 60 GPH?

On this day in 1939...
 

"HK" wrote in message
...
...the American League beat the National League 3-1 before 62,000 fans
gathered at Yankee Stadium for the All-Star game. Highlights included a
top-drawer pitching game by Bob Feller and a homer by Joe DiMaggio.

Amazing. Before my time, yet I know who DiMaggio and Feller were, and I
can't name one of today's baseball players.

DiMaggio retired in 1951. I never got to see him play. But I did get to
see his "replacement" play many times. The replacement, of course, was
"the Mick," Mickey Mantle.



Of course you did.

--Mike

On this day in 1939...
 

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

On this day in 1939...
 

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.