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Post by Walter on Sept 21, 2022 17:51:28 GMT -5
Maury Wills passed away the other day, two weeks shy of his 90th birthday.
1962 MVP, 7 time all-star, 3 time World Series winner who revolutionized the game with the art of the stolen base.
The joke BITD: Wills walks, steals second, Gilliam grounds out to second, Wills taking third, Willie Davis flies out, Wills tags and scores. Koufax throws a shutout. Dodgers win 1-0.
Rinse and repeat.
Dodgers win Pennant and World Series.
IIRC, the Dodgers had, at the time, the lowest team batting average of any WS champion in '63 up until then.
Dave Roberts said yesterday that as he was inserted into that iconic Red Sox game, he was thinking about what Wills taught him, which was that the hardest base to steal is the one where the entire stadium knows you're going, but if you prepare for it and know you're good enough, you steal it anyway.
RIP....
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Post by oujour76 on Sept 21, 2022 18:56:13 GMT -5
Maury Wills passed away the other day, two weeks shy of his 90th birthday. 1962 MVP, 7 time all-star, 3 time World Series winner who revolutionized the game with the art of the stolen base. The joke BITD: Wills walks, steals second, Gilliam grounds out to second, Wills taking third, Willie Davis flies out, Wills tags and scores. Koufax throws a shutout. Dodgers win 1-0. Rinse and repeat. Dodgers win Pennant and World Series. IIRC, the Dodgers had, at the time, the lowest team batting average of any WS champion in '63 up until then. Dave Roberts said yesterday that as he was inserted into that iconic Red Sox game, he was thinking about what Wills taught him, which was that the hardest base to steal is the one where the entire stadium knows you're going, but if you prepare for it and know you're good enough, you steal it anyway. RIP.... RIP indeed. Wills was hell of a player. HOF material. The old Dodgers are dying off…Tommy Davis in April and now Wills. |
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Post by daleko on Sept 22, 2022 12:48:57 GMT -5
Maury Wills passed away the other day, two weeks shy of his 90th birthday. 1962 MVP, 7 time all-star, 3 time World Series winner who revolutionized the game with the art of the stolen base. The joke BITD: Wills walks, steals second, Gilliam grounds out to second, Wills taking third, Willie Davis flies out, Wills tags and scores. Koufax throws a shutout. Dodgers win 1-0. Rinse and repeat. Dodgers win Pennant and World Series. IIRC, the Dodgers had, at the time, the lowest team batting average of any WS champion in '63 up until then. Dave Roberts said yesterday that as he was inserted into that iconic Red Sox game, he was thinking about what Wills taught him, which was that the hardest base to steal is the one where the entire stadium knows you're going, but if you prepare for it and know you're good enough, you steal it anyway. RIP.... RIP indeed. Wills was hell of a player. HOF material. The old Dodgers are dying off…Tommy Davis in April and now Wills. The Brooklyn Dodgers played from 1890 to 1957. Of the myriad players who donned a Brooklyn uniform in those many decades, just 9 survive, as of May 23, 2022. The oldest is Chris Haughey, born in 1925. The youngest is Bob Aspromonte, born in 1938. List of living Brooklyn Dodgers players Bob Aspromonte, born June 19, 1938 Tommy Brown, born December 6, 1927 Roger Craig, born February 17, 1930 Carl Erskine, born December 13, 1926 Jim Gentile, born June 3, 1934 Chris Haughey, born October 3, 1925 Fred Kipp, born October 1, 1931 Sandy Koufax, born December 30, 1935 Bobby Morgan, born June 29, 1926 |
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Post by Walter on Sept 22, 2022 14:29:48 GMT -5
RIP indeed. Wills was hell of a player. HOF material. The old Dodgers are dying off…Tommy Davis in April and now Wills. The Brooklyn Dodgers played from 1890 to 1957. Of the myriad players who donned a Brooklyn uniform in those many decades, just 9 survive, as of May 23, 2022. The oldest is Chris Haughey, born in 1925. The youngest is Bob Aspromonte, born in 1938. List of living Brooklyn Dodgers players Bob Aspromonte, born June 19, 1938 Tommy Brown, born December 6, 1927 Roger Craig, born February 17, 1930 Carl Erskine, born December 13, 1926 Jim Gentile, born June 3, 1934 Chris Haughey, born October 3, 1925 Fred Kipp, born October 1, 1931 Sandy Koufax, born December 30, 1935 Bobby Morgan, born June 29, 1926 Bob Aspromonte and Jim Gentile were Dodgers? Did not know that. Can't have been for long. |
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Post by canefan on Sept 22, 2022 17:22:35 GMT -5
I was a Dodger fan for a few years growing up because in the 50s and early 60s they were one of the few teams that were featured on the one televised game of the week on Saturday afternoon. As such, I was a Wills fan. Fast-forward to the early 90s and Wills is working for the Dodgers organization as a minor league scout. We took our young kids to a weeknight game and there were maybe, maybe a couple of hundred fans at the game. We are sitting behind the first base dugout and I look back up toward the press box and there he is, sitting in a row of seats outside the presser all by himself. I think I may have been the only person in the place to recognize him. I got the kids' books we always carried and told them to go up to this man, be very respectful and ask "excuse me Mr. Wills sir, could we get your autograph?" He was probably stunned that three under ten-year-olds at that time were asking him for an autograph but he was nice and could be with them. Unfortunately, because every kid in the stadium sees what every other kid does, he was soon swarmed by the dozen or so young kid present. It looked like he signed for all of them before he relocated for the rest of the game to the pressbox.
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Post by Buckeye Dale on Sept 22, 2022 17:27:56 GMT -5
RIP indeed. Wills was hell of a player. HOF material. The old Dodgers are dying off…Tommy Davis in April and now Wills. The Brooklyn Dodgers played from 1890 to 1957. Of the myriad players who donned a Brooklyn uniform in those many decades, just 9 survive, as of May 23, 2022. The oldest is Chris Haughey, born in 1925. The youngest is Bob Aspromonte, born in 1938. List of living Brooklyn Dodgers players (that I remember)Bob Aspromonte, born June 19, 1938 Tommy Brown, born December 6, 1927 Roger Craig, born February 17, 1930 Carl Erskine, born December 13, 1926 Jim Gentile, born June 3, 1934 Chris Haughey, born October 3, 1925 Fred Kipp, born October 1, 1931 Sandy Koufax, born December 30, 1935 Bobby Morgan, born June 29, 1926 SIGH...we're gettin' old, fellas... |
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Post by oujour76 on Sept 22, 2022 18:55:53 GMT -5
If you want to go back to the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, there are 9 left who played in Flatbush. As of this last spring anyway.www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/List_of_living_Brooklyn_Dodgers_playersThe Brooklyn Dodgers played from 1890 to 1957. Of the myriad players who donned a Brooklyn uniform in those many decades, just 9 survive, as of May 23, 2022. The oldest is Chris Haughey, born in 1925. The youngest is Bob Aspromonte, born in 1938. List of living Brooklyn Dodgers players Bob Aspromonte, born June 19, 1938 Tommy Brown, born December 6, 1927 Roger Craig, born February 17, 1930 Carl Erskine, born December 13, 1926 Jim Gentile, born June 3, 1934 Chris Haughey, born October 3, 1925 Fred Kipp, born October 1, 1931 Sandy Koufax, born December 30, 1935 Bobby Morgan, born June 29, 1926 Bob Aspromonte and Jim Gentile were Dodgers? Did not know that. Can't have been for long. Probably bonus babies back in the day. |
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