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BigEd76
Posts: 4,037
Joined: Nov 2016
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| Friday, October 9, 2020 10:03 AM | |
Announced this morning, would've been 92 on the 21st
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* Ed * L8 * Cards in my personal Collection are unavailable * |
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FAMDaddy
Posts: 491
Joined: Jan 2014
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| Friday, October 9, 2020 10:38 AM | |
Sad Day in the Yankees Family and for each of Us in The MLB Familia! Vaya con Dios Whitey and Prayers for Ford Family . . .
Yours in the Journey - Felix
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Kep75
Posts: 511
Joined: Jan 2014
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| Friday, October 9, 2020 10:53 AM | |
In the past two months we've lost Seaver, Brock, Gibson and now Ford...it's sucks!
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Matt K. Blog: Diamond Jesters 2018 - 2020 TCDB H2H Champion 2017, 2023 TCDB Roto Champion |
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IfbBirdsCards
Posts: 836
Joined: Aug 2017
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| Friday, October 9, 2020 12:47 PM | |
Extremely sad news. Saw someone post that Heaven is getting an extremely strong pitching staff and couldn't agree more.
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#2 Bowie Baysox, #12 Trey Mancini, & #3 Austin Wynns collector on the site. Also expanding my hockey, MMA, and Hofstra alumni collection. Collecting cards since 2011 (Age 8). -Ian |
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NJDevils
Posts: 6,344
Joined: Sep 2010
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| Friday, October 9, 2020 4:26 PM | |
Sad to see but part of life. 91, he had a good life. The Chairman of the Board.
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kcjays
Posts: 748
Joined: Jan 2012
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| Friday, October 9, 2020 6:02 PM | |
Add Kaline to the list, in April. Have there been any other baseball Hall of Famers pass in 2020?
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Billy Kingsley
Posts: 7,512
Joined: Aug 2011
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theFalcon
Posts: 81
Joined: May 2020
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| Saturday, October 10, 2020 7:46 AM | |
A quote from lefty slugger Leon Wagner in Sports Illustrated, 8/12/1063:
"You take that Whitey Ford of the Yankees. He's a con man. He throws a fast ball up over my head and then a curve way outside and then another curve that hits the dirt in front of the plate. People say, 'Wow, he's wild.' Wild? He ain't wild. He's a con man. He knows I like to swing, and he's trying to get me chasing those bad pitches. Then it's 3 and 0, and he knows I'm taking all the way—zoop, right down the middle. Then he throws that curve over on the outside corner. And I take it. Where am I going to hit it? Left field at Yankee Stadium? Too much room out there. So now it's 3 and 2 and he throws one of those curves low and out and I got to swing at it. Sometimes he'll throw a bad pitch on purpose on 3 and 2—he doesn't care if he walks me, and most of the time he knows I'll swing at it."
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From one of Jim Bouton's books:
...Yogi Berra himself told this story. At a recent old-timers' game, Ford, who claimed a record of about 0-5 in exhibitions of that sort, scuffed up a ball that he threw to Dom Dimaggio. The ball dropped about a foot. Later, Ford explained to Berra in the dugout, "I'm tired of losing in old-timers' games."
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switzr1
Posts: 6,332
Joined: Dec 2013
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| Saturday, October 10, 2020 3:31 PM | |
I'd be curious to know which, if any, championship teams he was the last survivor of.
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theFalcon
Posts: 81
Joined: May 2020
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| Saturday, October 10, 2020 4:26 PM | |
If you mean winning the World Series, you'll have to go back to 1950 or earlier. Did some poking around on B-R and some guy named Art Schallock pitched for the Yankees during 1951-55. I never heard of him before ... still around at age 96.
switzr1 wrote:
I'd be curious to know which, if any, championship teams he was the last survivor of.
Edited on: Oct 10, 2020 - 6:16PM
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