News of Pat Dobson's death Wednesday night reminds us that there was a team 35 years ago that featured four starters who each won 20 games, only the second time such a conglomeration occurred. The 1971 Orioles could call on Dave McNally (21-5), Mike Cuellar (20-9), Jim Palmer (20-9) and Dobson (20-8) and be almost […]
 
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 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  20-Game Winners, Moment of Silence, Orioles, Pat Dobson On Monday night, June 30, 1997, after having finagled a business trip so I wouldn’t have to pay for too much of the privilege, Stephanie and I were in Detroit. Tiger Stadium. For someone whose long-term goal was to see every ballpark, this was a medium-sized dream come true. Tiger Stadium was beautiful. Maybe because […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Cory Lidle, Moment of Silence, Tiger Stadium My father goes somewhere, he generally carries nothing. Whatever he needs is presumably in his pockets. I never noticed it until I realized how he’s the opposite of me. I take after my mother. I carry a bag. Not a purse, not a man purse. A shoulder bag I guess you’d call it. An overnight bag […] The back of Baseball America may as well be the bulletin board for the baseball family. Here are the records of the signings, of the trades, of the releases and the placements on the voluntary retired list. Names you may know one day, making their first appearance in agate type. Names you half-remember, drifting by […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Farewells, Moment of Silence, Phantom Mets, The Holy Books, Tom Belcher It was a week or two before Opening Day 1992. My car was still new as was my fascination with having my very own built-in cassette deck. I had just bought Rhino’s Soul Hits of the ’70s: Didn’t It Blow Your Mind Vol. 6. Playing Side B, driving home from work after midnight, I came […] This thought, articulated by Aaron Sorkin and brought to life by a great actor portraying an immortal character, has nothing to do with being a baseball fan. But it has everything to do with being a baseball fan. I don’t understand people who say they’ve had enough. How can you have enough of feeling like this? […] What I can’t get over in absorbing the news that Donn Clendenon has passed away is that the ’69 Mets have 70-year-old men. The math is easy enough. Clendenon turned 34 a month after he was obtained from the Expos for four minor leaguers. 1969 was 36 years ago. Add 36 to 34 and you’ve got […] Sunday night’s game got off to a great start. Our Zambrano pitching out of a jam. Their Zambrano struggling. Beltran, Floyd and Wright all having fun in the Build-A-Run Workshop. An excellent game right into the bottom of the third. Which is when I turned it off. Sunday night. Nine o’clock. Six Feet Under. Third-to-last episode ever. […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Moment of Silence, Nate Fisher, Six Feet Under Around 5:40 Saturday evening, you may have thought you heard some serious thunder over the New York area. But it wasn’t thunder. It was Bernie the Cat getting settled into his new surroundings Up There. Way Up There. I know it was him. I know what my boy sounds like. I know what kind of […] “Ah, memories, memories … and here we go again, back on the same old trip: digressions, tangents, crude flashbacks…” Have you ever seen “The Bad Lieutenant”? It’s not about Matt Galante, but rather a corrupt in every sense of the world NYPD detective played by Harvey Keitel. Several years ago, Fred Bunz recommended it to me at […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Lieutenant, Cliff Floyd, Hunter Thompson, Mets Pop Culture, Moment of Silence |
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