Are the Giants playing a day game or a night game on the 13th?
take it as an insult, I really dont care.
Are the Giants playing a day game or a night game on the 13th?
Lives of great men all remind us as their pages o'er we turn, that we're apt to leave behind us letters that we ought to burn.-----Anonymous
Anybody seen this one? [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Standing 6-foot-1 and weighing 215 pounds at the peak of his career, Gibson is widely considered among the very best power hitters in baseball history, but never played in Major League Baseball as racial segregation excluded African-Americans during his lifetime. He is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, elected in 1972.
This person is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.He has been credited with as many as 84 homers in one season. His Baseball Hall of Fame plaque says he hit "almost 800" homers in his 17-year career. His lifetime batting average was higher than .350, with other sources putting it as high as .384, the best in Negro League history. It was reported that he won nine home-run titles and four batting championships playing for the Crawfords and the Homestead Grays. In two seasons in the late 1930s, it was written that not only did he hit higher than .400, but his slugging percentage was above 1.000. The Sporting News of June 3, 1967 credits Gibson with a home run in a Negro League game at Yankee Stadium that struck two feet from the top of the wall circling the center field bleachers, about 580 feet from home plate. Although it has never been conclusively proven, Chicago American Giants infielder Jack Marshall said Gibson slugged one over the third deck next to the left field bullpen in 1934 for the only fair ball hit out of the House That Ruth Built.- if you look at that the record is still a long way off. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beer1.gif[/img]
Monte Irvin once said Mays and Aaron were nice players, but neither was in Josh Gibson's league. I thought that was real interesting.
Bond's average falls to .217 for the year.
Lives of great men all remind us as their pages o'er we turn, that we're apt to leave behind us letters that we ought to burn.-----Anonymous
Gibson died in his mid-30s, think what could have been.
That brain tumor made him a nutcase. There were times when Satchel had to check him out of the mental institute so that he could play ball that day lol. Most everyone Ive ever heard talk about him called him the black babe ruth.
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