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Happy retirement clem!

I have to admit that I didn't know where the Canadian Baseball HOF was ...

NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 11 July 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link

Canada.

Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 11 July 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link

always the last place you look

Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 11 July 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link

Q: Who is the only player to represent the Montreal Expos and the Toronto Blue Jays in the MLB All-Star Game?

A: Ron Fairly (Expos,1973; Blue Jays,1977)

He turns 81 today. Happy Birthday to him! pic.twitter.com/eNAB33DLJr

— Kevin Glew (@coopincanada) July 12, 2019

mookieproof, Friday, 12 July 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link

never in a million years would i have guessed.

Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 12 July 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

Wow--my post just above is where I decided to move to St. Mary's...No HOF class this year, and the induction of Olerud/Morneau/Ward/Doucet still on hold.

http://baseballhalloffame.ca/blog/2021/02/05/statement-from-our-board-of-directors/

Now that I'm on the inside, out there pulling weeds, I'm going to lobby hard for Munenori.

clemenza, Friday, 5 February 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link

St. Marys...St. Marys...I even have a T-shirt that says "St. Marys: Apostrophe-Free Since 1864."

clemenza, Friday, 5 February 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

They're still doing catch up from COVID, but this year's Canadian HOF inductees:

https://baseballhalloffame.ca/barfield-boucher-harden-wiwchar-to-be-inducted-into-canadian-baseball-hall-of-fame-museum/

Posting these days for me is often like the final scene of Seinfeld--I think I've told this story before, but I'm never quite sure. Anyway, I got a card autographed by Barfield once (right in the Skydome, I think), and I mentioned to him that I was there the night he became the first Blue Jay to hit 40 HR (1986). He remembered not just the pitcher (of course), but the pitch, the count, where he hit it, everything. It was probably 10 or 15 years later.

clemenza, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 22:14 (one year ago) link

This is interesting from his little bio:

In 1985, the right-handed hitting slugger helped lead the Blue Jays to their first American League East title when he had 27 home runs, 22 stolen bases and 22 outfield assists. This made him just the second player (Willie Mays was the first in 1955) in big league history to have at least 20 home runs, 20 stolen bases and 20 outfield assists in the same campaign.

Wonder if that's still true.

clemenza, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 22:17 (one year ago) link

five months pass...

Older sibling setting a good example and not doing his cradle thing...This is more of a Canadian story than a Cleveland story to me, but either way, a first.

https://www.mlb.com/news/bo-naylor-josh-naylor-homer-in-same-inning-for-guardians

clemenza, Saturday, 15 July 2023 12:26 (one year ago) link

Didn't realize that Josh is having a solid year.

clemenza, Saturday, 15 July 2023 12:27 (one year ago) link


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