The Death Heard 'Round the World

[PenPho]

Bobby Thomson dead at 86.

[Bonk]

How about "The Plot Heard 'Round the World"?

[PenPho]

How about "The Plot Heard 'Round the World"?

Intrepid Reader: PenFoe

Clever.

[Quality Start Machine]

How about "Willie Mays is on deck"?

[Bort]

How about "Willie Mays is on deck"?

Depends. Is the intent to make a thread title so unfunny my dad would be ashamed to share it?

[Saul Goodman]

How about "Willie Mays is on deck"?

Depends. Is the intent to make a thread title so unfunny my dad would be ashamed to share it?

What a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for Fork.

[Quality Start Machine]

How about "Willie Mays is on deck"?

Depends. Is the intent to make a thread title so unfunny my dad would be ashamed to share it?

What a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for Fork.

On the bright side, I found the elusive line.

[Quality Start Machine]

True story.

Back in the 80s, I used to buy/sell baseball cards, and related stuff. I would occasionally run my own show at the Holiday Inn on Staten Island (now the Staten Island Hotel).

Anyway, I was small potatoes, and if I wanted to have anyone for a meet-and-greet/signing, it couldn't exactly be Joe Dimaggio (who used to get $100K for a weekend).

So I wind up meeting Max Zaslofsky (another great Jewish athlete for you, Stew) who is also in the business, and handled bookings for local guys, so for a few hundred bucks I could get a Johnny Kucks or Bobby Shantz.

So one time I'm putting a show together, and Max tells me I can have Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca together. They won't cost much, as long as I hang a Manhattan Special banner behind the table. Thomson lived on Staten Island and Branca lived in Brooklyn, so I didn't even have to put them up in the hotel.

They show up, and they're both very cool, real gentlemen. They had become good friends over the years, and Branca's feelings were that Thomson had beaten him fair & square...Thomson joked that by hitting the HR with Mays on deck, he deprived Mays of being famous...also by getting hurt, he had given Hank Aaron his break in Milwaukee, and otherwise you'd never have heard of him. A great day with two guys telling awesome baseball stories all day.

A few years back, when the story broke that the Giants had been stealing signs, Branca stopped speaking to Thomson for a while. Looks like they made peace. That's good.

[Richard Chuggar]

True story.

Back in the 80s, I used to buy/sell baseball cards, and related stuff. I would occasionally run my own show at the Holiday Inn on Staten Island (now the Staten Island Hotel).

Anyway, I was small potatoes, and if I wanted to have anyone for a meet-and-greet/signing, it couldn't exactly be Joe Dimaggio (who used to get $100K for a weekend).

So I wind up meeting Max Zaslofsky (another great Jewish athlete for you, Stew) who is also in the business, and handled bookings for local guys, so for a few hundred bucks I could get a Johnny Kucks or Bobby Shantz.

So one time I'm putting a show together, and Max tells me I can have Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca together. They won't cost much, as long as I hang a Manhattan Special banner behind the table. Thomson lived on Staten Island and Branca lived in Brooklyn, so I didn't even have to put them up in the hotel.

They show up, and they're both very cool, real gentlemen. They had become good friends over the years, and Branca's feelings were that Thomson had beaten him fair & square...Thomson joked that by hitting the HR with Mays on deck, he deprived Mays of being famous...also by getting hurt, he had given Hank Aaron his break in Milwaukee, and otherwise you'd never have heard of him. A great day with two guys telling awesome baseball stories all day.

A few years back, when the story broke that the Giants had been stealing signs, Branca stopped speaking to Thomson for a while. Looks like they made peace. That's good. I was a complete tool even back in the olden days

Save us some time'd

[Quality Start Machine]

True story.

Back in the 80s, I used to buy/sell baseball cards, and related stuff. I would occasionally run my own show at the Holiday Inn on Staten Island (now the Staten Island Hotel).

Anyway, I was small potatoes, and if I wanted to have anyone for a meet-and-greet/signing, it couldn't exactly be Joe Dimaggio (who used to get $100K for a weekend).

So I wind up meeting Max Zaslofsky (another great Jewish athlete for you, Stew) who is also in the business, and handled bookings for local guys, so for a few hundred bucks I could get a Johnny Kucks or Bobby Shantz.

So one time I'm putting a show together, and Max tells me I can have Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca together. They won't cost much, as long as I hang a Manhattan Special banner behind the table. Thomson lived on Staten Island and Branca lived in Brooklyn, so I didn't even have to put them up in the hotel.

They show up, and they're both very cool, real gentlemen. They had become good friends over the years, and Branca's feelings were that Thomson had beaten him fair & square...Thomson joked that by hitting the HR with Mays on deck, he deprived Mays of being famous...also by getting hurt, he had given Hank Aaron his break in Milwaukee, and otherwise you'd never have heard of him. A great day with two guys telling awesome baseball stories all day.

A few years back, when the story broke that the Giants had been stealing signs, Branca stopped speaking to Thomson for a while. Looks like they made peace. That's good. I was a complete tool even back in the olden days

Save us some time'd

Next time I want shit from you I'll pop the top off your head and scoop it out.