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# 2 - Second baseman for the Chicago White Sox- played with shortstops Chico Carrasquel, and Luis Appariecio.
Nellie FoxOriginally Posted by OLDBLUE
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Never could figger out how he could see the pitch with that huge "chaw" in his cheek, but he hit for .300+ for years.
Great job adding to the thread on #2 Dowty, Sportdawg, OldBlue, HoDo. This has been so much fun. Yesterday's riddle, the title to Leo Durocher's autobiography, is "Nice Guys Finish LAST." Next to Yogi, Durocher is one of the most quotable baseball characters ever:
"As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it." Source: Nice Guys Finish Last (Leo Durocher, 06/09/1975)
"Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death."
"Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you." Source: Nice Guys Finish Last (Leo Durocher, 06/09/1975)
"God watches over drunks and third basemen."
"How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters." Source: Nice Guys Finish Last (Leo Durocher, 06/09/1975)
"I come to win." Source: How the Weather Was (Roger Kahn, 1973)
"I don't care if the guy (Jackie Robinson) is yellow or black, or if he has stripes like a god-damn zebra. I'm the manager of this team and I say he plays."
"If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, 'Sorry, Mom,' but nobody beats me." Source: Widely Attributed
"If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired."
"I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules."
"I'm wearing the same socks, shirt and underwear, too!" Source: Widely Attributed (Used during winning streaks)
"I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes." Source: Nice Guys Finish Last (Leo Durocher, 06/09/1975)
"In order to become a big-league manager you have to be in the right place at the right time. That's rule number one."
"In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you."
"It was Brooklyn against the world. They were not only complete fanatics, but they knew baseball like the fans of no other city. It was exciting to play there. It was a treat. I walked into that crummy, flyblown park as Brooklyn manager for nine years, and every time I entered, my pulse quickened and my spirits soared."
"Luck? If the roof fell in and Diz (Dean) was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried and a gumdrop would fall in his mouth."
"Nice guys finish last."
"Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop." Source: Street and Smith Baseball Yearbook (1976)
"Show me a good loser in professional sports, and I'll show you an idiot."
"Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill." Source: The Sporting News (February 1961)
"That (Joe) Medwick never lost a debate in his life, mostly because he didn't bother. He was a one man rampage."
"There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit, and hit with power." Source: Time (July 16, 1973)
"There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth."
"What are we out at the park for, except to win?"
"Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it."
"You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it."
"You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain."
1 days+ til kickoff in JAS. Less than 30 hours!! IT'S GONNA BE EPIC, BABY!!!!
- #1 PEE WEE REESE, major league shortstop
- 10× All-Star (1942, 1946–1954)
- 2× World Series champion (1955, 1959)
- NL stolen base leader (1952)
- Los Angeles Dodgers #1 retired
- CBS major league "Game of the Week" co-announcer with Dizzy Dean (60-65) and Curt Gowdy (66-68)
- JACKIE ROBINSON CONNECTION:Reese was a strong supporter and good friend of the first 20th century blackMajor League Baseball player, Jackie Robinson. He was serving a stint in the Navy when the news of Robinson's signing came. Although he had little or no experience interacting with minorities — according to Reese, his meeting Robinson marked the first time in his life that he had shaken hands with a black man — he had no particular prejudices, either. It is reported that his father had made him starkly aware of racial injustice by showing him a tree where a lynching had occurred.[6] The modest Reese, who typically downplayed his pioneering role in helping to ease the breaking of the 60-year-old color line, said that his primary concern with regard to Robinson's arrival was the possibility of Reese losing his shortstop job. Robinson was assigned to play as the team's first baseman, and Reese retained his position.
Reese refused to sign a petition that threatened a boycott if Robinson joined the team. When a sportswriter asked Reese if he was threatened by Robinson taking his position of shortstop, Reese simply responded, "If he can take my job, he's entitled to it." When Robinson joined the Dodgers in 1947 and traveled with them during their first road trip, he was heckled by fans in Cincinnati, Ohio. During pre-game infield practice at Crosley Field (the then-home of the Cincinnati Reds), Reese, the captain of the team, went over to Robinson, engaged him in conversation, and put his arm around his shoulder in a gesture of support which silenced the crowd. This gesture is depicted in a bronze sculpture of Reese and Robinson, created by sculptor William Behrends.
The friendship between Reese and Robinson is prominent in Roger Kahn's classic work, The Boys of Summer. At Reese's funeral, Joe Black, another major league baseball black pioneer, said,
"Pee Wee helped make my boyhood dream come true to play in the majors, the World Series. When Pee Wee reached out to Jackie, all of us in the Negro League smiled and said it was the first time that a white guy had accepted us. When I finally got up to Brooklyn, I went to Pee Wee and said, 'Black people love you. When you touched Jackie, you touched all of us.' With Pee Wee, it was No. 1 on his uniform and No. 1 in our hearts."[7]
The Wizard - Ozzie Smith!
#1 is Carlos Henderson. I hope he has a fantastic season!!! Tomorrow ....less than 24 hours....is GAME DAY!!!!
#1
ANyone know who was the first "football" player to wear #1?
I don't know how to google that... Association, American, Australian Rules??? Apparent Australian rules were the first to wear numbers
Narrow the search to La Tech football. Sorry for my vagueness.
So tell us already!Narrow the search to La Tech football. Sorry for my vagueness.
I think Richie Casey wore #1 for a few years.
Robert Brunet from the 1965 roster? That is about as far back as I could find on google, easily anyway lol.
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