Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 8 of 25: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (04:02) * 3 lines
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Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 9 of 25: Ginger Coplan (ginger) * Sat, Jun 14, 1997 (21:10) * 1 lines
Good comments Josh!
Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 10 of 25: John Burnett (mrchips) * Sun, Oct 24, 1999 (19:18) * 3 lines
I'm sorry that this category has the caveat '96 in it, and I'm equally sorry that it's been over two years since anyone posted in a baseball category. I have to admit to shedding tears while watching the All-Century team introductions tonight before Game 2 of the 1999 World Series. I am also shocked at the uncalled-for prosecutorial tone taken by NBC's interviewer to one Peter Edward Rose, one of those selected by fans to be on the All-Century team, and the greatest pure hitter who ever lived. Baseball
is the great American game, our national pastime, but contrary to the postulate of Field of Dreams, it is not perfect. From the segregated status of the majors in the first half of this century, which will never be fully made up for, to the continued travesty of the exclusion of Rose and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson from the Hall of Fame, the game is marvelous, but somewhat shy of perfect. But with the introduction of such luminaries as Rose, Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Stan Musial, I fo
nd myself unable to control the outpour of my emotions.
Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 11 of 25: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Oct 24, 1999 (19:27) * 1 lines
Amen John!!! Truer words were never spoken - trite as it sounds, and the emotions were shared by at least one other Hilo resident. I have been a baseball fan forever (But, you knew that!) and the way they have handled Pete Rose is nothing short of a travesty. It is as dishonest as they proclaim him to be. Have you seen any of the greats play in person?
Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 12 of 25: John Burnett (mrchips) * Sun, Oct 24, 1999 (20:38) * 5 lines
I've seen many great baseball players. I went to many games at Wrigley as a child. When I was quite young, the Cubs had Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams, and Lou Brock. Cubs and White Sox fans are almost mutually exclusive, but my uncle Ernie (not Banks) took me to a Yankees-White Sox game in 1964, where I caught a foul ball off the bat of Phil (Harmonica) Linz. Players in that game included Luis Aparicio for the White Sox and the vaunted 1964 Yankees, who signed my ball, including Mickey Mantle
Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, Clete Boyer, Bobby Richardson, Elston Howard, Whitey Ford (who pitched), and Tony Kubek. Visitors to Wrigley that I've seen play included Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Maury Wills, Willie Davis, Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Don Sutton, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Orlando Cepeda, Juan Marichal, Bobby Bonds, Lou Brock (coming back to haunt us after being traded to the Cardinals), Stan Musial, Ken Boyer, Bob Gibson, Tim McCarver, Steve Carlton, Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews, Lou
Burdette, Joe Adcock, Nolan Ryan, Dick Allen, and Richie Ashburn. I also got to see Satchel Paige with a barnstorming team when I was a kid. Satch was in his late 50s and was playing a local semipro team, but my parents had told me stories about him as long as I can remember, so I was impressed that the old man had enough guile to pitch three innings and retire all nine of the local yokels he faced. When I was the P.A. announcer for the Hawaii Islanders, I saw both Tony Gwynn (a gentleman and a scholar
and Barry Bonds (a horse's ass) play on a daily basis. And I've seen some pretty fair players while they were still playing college ball: Joe Carter Tyler Green and Darren Dreifort(Wichita State); Jeromy Burnitz (Oklahoma State); Glenn Braggs and Scott Karl (UH-Manoa); Will Clark, Rafael Palmeiro and Bobby Thigpen (Mississippi State); Roberto Kelly (Arizona State); Benny Agbayani (Hawaii Pacific University and of course, our late lamented Hilo Stars); and in the Hawaii Winter League: Gabe Kapler (West O
hu Canefires), Onan Masaoka (Waiakea H.S. & Hilo Stars), Jason Giambi (Honolulu Sharks), and Japan's "Pete Rose", five-time Central League Batting Champion Ichiro Suzuki (Hilo Stars). I've been blessed to be able to see that many good to great players in person.
Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 13 of 25: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Oct 24, 1999 (20:58) * 1 lines
Wow! That is amazing - and I thought I was going to amaze you! Before I was born (I cannot be that old!) I went to the Polo Grounds and watched the Pennant winning NY Giants play the Brooklyn Dodger and actually beat them for once. I got a ball signed by the entire team (which my mother threw away)- so I saw some of the same players as you did! I was a huge NY Giants fan - and was heart-broken when they went to San Frnacisco...!
Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 14 of 25: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Oct 24, 1999 (20:59) * 1 lines
Oh yes, Did you know that Ray's father's cousin was Honus Wagner?!
Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 15 of 25: John Burnett (mrchips) * Sun, Oct 24, 1999 (22:02) * 2 lines
In the immortal words of Johnny Carson "I did not know that!" What a shame about the ball. I have mine wrapped in saran in a safe deposit box. It looks like the day it was signed. Lucky me. Hey seeing the Giants and the Bums at the Polo Grounds is impressive. And of course Russ Hodges' call of Bobby Thomson's home run off Ralph Branca "the Giants win the pennant! (x4)" is immortal. Ernie Harwell is working ESPN radio for the playoffs and World Series this year. He must be pushing 80, but is still
mazing.
Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 16 of 25: John Burnett (mrchips) * Sun, Oct 24, 1999 (22:07) * 1 lines
And when the Giants moved to San Fran, our beloved Les Keiter wrote a big chapter of his own legend doing S.F. Giants recreates for the Big Apple.
Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 17 of 25: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Oct 24, 1999 (22:08) * 2 lines
Incredible memories.. I was watching the game before a piano lesson and when Bobby Thonpson hit the home run I was totally out of control (for me) - my piano teacher sent me home...! I can still hear him saying what he said over and over and over - it had been so long in coming. Leo Durocher was Giants Manager at that time and I thought he was wonderful! (He behaved back then!) You are keeping your precious ball in precisely the right conditions. Most excellent!
(was that whose voice it was - it has been MANY years since I heard him...!)
Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 18 of 25: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Oct 24, 1999 (22:12) * 1 lines
When Les was guest speaker at the annual Vulcan Booster dinner Ray bought me his book and I had his sign it and we discussed the polo Grounds and such...it was fun! Have you read it?
Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 19 of 25: John Burnett (mrchips) * Sun, Oct 24, 1999 (23:22) * 1 lines
Yes. I emceed that night and Les signed a copy for me as well.
Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 20 of 25: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Oct 24, 1999 (23:33) * 1 lines
...now that you mention it...Indeed he did! Fascinating speaker because he spoke of things I knew first hand. I think it was the only time that has happened with a guest speaker of any kind...He attended some of the same events I attended. I found that remarkable!
Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 21 of 25: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Oct 24, 1999 (23:35) * 1 lines
Who better than you to have been the EmCee?! The more I think of it - it just HAD to be! At the Yacht Club...I remember it well!
Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 22 of 25: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Oct 25, 1999 (14:55) * 1 lines
Early this morning as I was trying to awaken in the 5am dark I was listening to the Jay Mariotti (Sp?) show on the Honolulu station which carries him. He was defending Jim Gray (Sp?)who did that terrible interview with Pete Rose. Not a single caller in about 2 hours of my listening on and off (from 3am on)agreed with Mariotti and all thought the interview a fishing expedition - just as you did, John. I think this will not go away quietly. I hope it does not, anyway!
Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 23 of 25: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jan 22, 2000 (22:39) * 2 lines
Well, I was asked about college baseball, and until there is a topic for it I will use the MLB topic. It was great to be out in the sun (finally!) with the new scoreboard working (finally!) and old friends and fans around me again. I watched the softball game against the alumnae while I listened to John do play-by-play for the baseball game going on a few miles away. We lost that game against U San Diego. I will get to see them play again Monday evening. My favorite time to watch a game. Let's see.
Boiled peanuts and boiled soybeans are the order of the day and I shall have mine. If it gets cold I shall have some hot saimin. Ummm!!! Can't wait!
Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 24 of 25: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jan 22, 2000 (22:40) * 1 lines
Goodness...I forgot to say who "we" are. The University of Hawaii at Hilo Vulcans is who we are.
Topic 12 of 71 [sports]: Major League Baseball '96
Response 25 of 25: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Dec 26, 2002 (05:34) * 21 lines
That old Beatles song "Yesterday" has a line in it "I'm not half the man I used to be".
That's Kirby Puckett, who is taking a huge hit:
Two days after she caught Kirby on the phone with the mystery woman, Tonya claims, Kirby threatened in a phone call that he "was going to kill me." Tonya told the private investigator, who advised her to call the Edina police so there would be a record of her allegation. When she did, six days later, on Dec. 21, 2001, Tonya gave police an account of the latest incident and laid out a pattern of violent behavior by Puckett — although none of it recent — over the course of their marriage, according to the police report.
Tonya Puckett cried as Kirby announced his retirement from baseball in a 1996 news conference. He revealed he had glaucoma in his right eye. FILE PHOTO
She told of Kirby putting a cocked gun to her head as she held their then-2-year-old daughter.
She told of Kirby trying to strangle her with an electrical cord.
She told of Kirby locking her in the basement.
She told of Kirby using a power saw to cut through a door.
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