I didn't know that Holtzman played for the '77 and '78 Yankees, he won five WS rings! And yeah, it's surprising that he never got a CY vote with those pitching lines, but then again it's not surprising considering his competition on those WS winning teams.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 05:15 (one month ago) link
Happy trails Whitey Herzog
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 15:58 (one month ago) link
My first thought was that he was one of the very last autocratic old-school managers, but he retired in 1990, so I guess there were a number of them still around.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 16:15 (one month ago) link
ESPN: "A crew-cut, pot-bellied tobacco chewer who had no patience for the 'buddy-buddy' school of management..."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 16:19 (one month ago) link
The Dodgers mourn the passing of one of the team’s all-time greats, Carl Erskine, at the age of 97. Carl was an All-Star, a World Series Champion, a true ally to Jackie Robinson and more in the pursuit of equality, and a pioneering advocate for those with special needs, inspired… pic.twitter.com/1MPNDnz9HR— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 16, 2024
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:53 (one month ago) link
Seems apropos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RUIeX6UCT8
― clemenza, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 22:00 (one month ago) link
Don't think I knew this (from Posnanski's obit):
In a nine-day span in June of 1949, the New York Yankees signed two 17-year-old prospects from the Midwest; one a shortstop out of a town called Commerce and the other an outfielder from a place called Belleville. The Yankees gave each of them a $1,500 signing bonus and something to dream about.
The shortstop was a kid named Mickey Mantle.
The outfielder was Rellie Herzog. Well, Rellie was a nickname. His full name was Dorrel Norman Elvert Herzog. A few months later, while playing in an Oklahoma town called McAlester, a local sportscaster noticed his light hair and gave him a new nickname.
And that’s how he became Whitey Herzog.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:07 (one month ago) link
Whitey was one of the first non-Cubs managers I remember making an impression (along w/Earl Weaver and Billy Martin.) i'm pretty sure i thought he was about 70 in the '80s, he just looked like one of those old-time lifers. which he was, he just wasn't as old-time as i thought. i feel like the tobacco chaw no BS guys are few and far between these days, the guys who look like they've been through some shit already. Clint Hurdle was a recent-ish one i guess.
― omar little, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:12 (one month ago) link
They're extinct--just doesn't work with guys making this much money. Which is good; having played for such coaches when I was younger, it's a way of behaving that should be extinct.
Having said that, when I see something like this, some irrational nostalgia for the Herzog/Weaver/Martin style of managing lingers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywuT2PMNQ54
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:22 (one month ago) link
journeyman dave mccarty, 54
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 April 2024 00:14 (one month ago) link
https://theathletic.com/5484950/2024/05/10/sean-burroughs-death-mlb/
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 10 May 2024 22:45 (one week ago) link
Didn't immediately clue in as to who he was--Jeff Burroughs' son, I assumed, but I'd forgotten about his Little League fame.
― clemenza, Saturday, 11 May 2024 13:33 (one week ago) link