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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:10:00 EST
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- From: Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Gleanings (73)
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- Shame on me. I've taken to looking only for my own gleanings. Until
- now, I had no idea there was a baseball one floating about.
-
- >9) Eddie Matthews: He was a baseball player in the late fifties and
- >sixties for the Detroit Tigers. As a teenager I thought he was <so>
- >good looking, and he was a good player also.
-
- Right on both counts, Doris. Except that he was more than just a
- <good> player -- he's the next best thing to Mike Schmidt at third
- base. They have very similar batting totals, but Schmitty's glove
- carries him to the very top of the all-time list of 3Bs.
-
- >Dizzy Dean's "Wabash Cannonball": Dizzy Dean was a baseball player turned
- >sports announcer who narrated many major leage ball games. He was a
- >southerner and spoke like a "hick." When nothing exciting was happening
- >in a game he would burst into song, and "Wabash Cannonball" (about a
- >train) was one of the songs he sang frequently.
-
- Really (the recently-departed) Roy Acuff's song, but Ol' Diz made it a
- trademark too. Jay Hanna Dean was a flameballing righthander, the last
- National League hurler to win 30 games in a season, with the 1934 'Gas
- House Gang' Cardinals. Diz's little brother Paul also pitched for the
- Cards. In a doubleheader, Dizzy tossed a two-hit shutout in the opener
- and Paul did even better in the nightcap, no-hitting the opposition.
- Said Diz, "If I'd known Paul was gonna throw a no-hitter, I woulda done
- it too." Once, he slid into a base and the throw from the outfield hit
- him right in the head; Diz was taken away on a stretcher. The next
- day's newpaper headline was "Dean Knocked Cold, X-rays Reveal Nothing."
- Dean's playing career was cut short when Earl Averill's liner in the
- 1937 All-Star Game broke his toe; by trying to come back too soon, he
- altered his delivery and injured his arm.
-
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