“Knowledge is Good” -Emil Faber #LGM Father, Brother, Son and Grandfather
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Wow! Never knew!
"Bert Convy, who is battling for a first base spot with the Buzzers, is majoring in drama and radio announcing and hopes to wangle a movie tryout after he’s through with baseball."
"Salt Lake Tribune", 1950.
"I was a first baseman but after those two years, I realized I had no real future in professional baseball.
I hit for a pretty good average, but I was never a long ball hitter.
And, as a left-hander, the only places I could play were first base or the outfield, and I knew the majors wanted distance hitters in those positions.
I had a lot of fun, but I learned it was a very tough business.
Show business is a picnic compared to pro baseball."
Bert Convy.
At just 17 years old, Bert Convy signed with the Phillies and entered their minor league system as an outfielder.
In 1952 for the Salina Blue Jays in Kansas and the Miami Eagles in Oklahoma, he hit .225 with 3 doubles, 2 triples, 11 RBI.
The Phillies released him and Bert Convy went on to attend the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television.
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Last night we played the third and final performance of "Marsalis and the Masters", our opening concerts for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2026–27 season.
Here’s my solo on Chick Corea’s “Humpty Dumpty,” one of the pieces I arranged for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for this concert.
Tomorrow, we hit the road for a month, starting on the West Coast. We’ll be playing in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Monterey, Rohnert Park, Cincinnati, Columbus, Lincoln, Brookings, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh.
In Cincinnati, we’ll join the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cristian Măcelaru for another performance of my new Liberty Symphony. The program will also include my Violin Concerto, performed by Nicola Benedetti with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition in a reimagined version for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
Follow us here as we make our way across the country, and visit wyntonmarsalis.org/tour for dates and more information.
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"God-willing, we'll all reconvene here next year, and it's going to be a party!"
Howie Rose thanks his family, friends, and the Mets organization in his opening remarks on his Retirement Day, which has now been rescheduled to Opening Day next year due to inclement weather today
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The Mets offered Alonso an extension of $158M over 7 years. He turned it down. There was no market for him when he took the one-year deal from the Mets. He then signed the big deal with Baltimore when there was no bidding war. He’ll probably finish his career there in irrelevance. He’s a top notch power hitter, but I don’t get the love affair with him.
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Forgive a long tweet to remind that the Yankees in 1982 had a situation similar to what the Mets and their fans experienced with Pete Alonso on Tuesday night. Reggie Jackson left the Yankees bitterly after five years, two championships and gaining the Mr. October nickname. The fans were annoyed at George Steinbrenner for letting Reggie leave with minimal effort to keep him because they viewed him, at 35, as a defensive liability, needing to DH more (against his will) and likely only having a year or two of strong production left. Reggie signed for four years with the Angels. In his first game back at Yankee Stadium, April 27, 1982, he hit a seventh-inning homer off of a Ron Guidry slider to make a 2-1 game, 3-1. Fans had chanted his name all night. They gave him a standing ovation as he rounded the bases, demanded a curtain call (which they got) and chanted “Steinbrenner sucks” toward his owner's box. Reggie led the AL in homers that year, but did begin to decline afterward. The Yankees began a period where they failed to reach the playoffs from 1982-94. And despite all that would come in his final chapter, Steinbrenner was despised at that time among Yankee fans.
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I'm grateful and thankful to you!
.@Jimfrombaseball is a gift to BASEBALL…. @MLB @MLBNetwork you need more storytelling preservers like Jim . Thank you Jim Koenigsberger
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Relax, everyone. The CEOs of the companies actually building AI warn it could wipe out humanity. But the 80-year-old billionaire who can’t explain what an LLM is, and likely has only a few years left, disagrees.
Thank God we finally found an expert.
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"Steve Gromek came home for the winter to more than the usual frost.
There were hostile letters in his mailbox.
People he considered friends wouldn't speak to him.
In a Hamtramck bar, Gromek said hello to a former amateur teammate:
"And he ignored me."
"Oh, Christ," a bartender told the World Series hero.
"It's that picture you took with Larry Doby, you could have just shook his hand?"
That picture of Steve Gromek and Larry Doby has unmistakable flesh and blood cheeks pressed close together, brawny arms tightly clasped, equally wide grins. The chief message of the Doby-Gromek picture is acceptance."
Marjorie McKenzie Lawson, Pittsburgh Courier.
"I will always cherish that photograph and the memory of Steve Gromek hugging me and me hugging him, because it proved that emotions can be put into a form not based on skin color."
Larry Doby.
"This photo was astonishing for its time. Larry Doby followed Jackie Robinson by less than three months in the 1947 integration of MLB.
The idea of men of two different races cheek-to-cheek offended the most bigoted parts of the white population, some of whom never forgave Steve Gromek.
It should also be added that Larry Doby endured the same racism and brutality as Jackie Robinson, but received less credit for it as the second man to integrate baseball while Robinson was the first"
Dr. Gerald Stein.
1st Black player in the American League.
1st Black player to hit a home run in World Series.
1st Black player to hit a home run in an All-Star game.
1st Black player in the American Basketball League (preceded NBA).
1st Black player to go directly to the majors from the Negro leagues.
1st Black player to lead either league in home runs.
Larry Doby.
Let's celebrated annually on July 5th, "Larry Doby Day."
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9/10/1969 The Mets sweep a doubleheader from the Expos and move into first place for the first time in franchise history.
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MetsBooth: "And he turns into Boom Boom Jeffrey Yan." Oh Howie. The Giants lead 8-3 in the 8th.
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9/5/2015 Bartolo Colón retires Justin Bour with an impressive behind-the-back flip. Colón also becomes the oldest Met to throw a shutout and extends his scoreless streak to 25 innings.
@BColon40
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9/5/1969 Tom Seaver becomes the first 20-game winner in franchise history with a complete-game victory over Philadelphia.
The best!!!
Tom Seaver, outstanding pitcher mostly for the #Mets and #Reds, died #OTD in 2020. A 12-time All-Star, he won three Cy Young Awards and 311 games during his 20 year career, while striking out 3,640 batters. Seaver was elected to the #HallofFame in 1992.
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Rusty Staub gave so much to every organization, teammate, fanbase, and community he ever played for, and there are both baseball- and non-baseball-related reasons for why he belongs in Cooperstown.
With Houston, Montreal, New York, and Detroit:
• Over 500 hits with each club
• Earned MVP votes with each club
• Had a cannon arm in RF early in his career
• Was a slugging DH in the middle of his career
• Had a final act as one of the best pinch-hitters
He also played with Texas for one season and had more walks than strikeouts with all five franchises he played for! Staub finished his career with 2716 hits, 499 doubles, 292 homers, 1466 RBI, a 124 OPS+, and 4185 total bases, some huge numbers in the grand scheme of things.
Staub is the only player with at least 2700 hits, 1400 RBI, a .360 OBP, and fewer than 900 strikeouts to NOT be in the Hall of Fame. Only 14 other players meet those criteria and they ALL have plaques in Cooperstown.
But listen, those are just the "baseball" reasons why Staub was awesome. He was a great ballplayer, but a better person:
• With Montreal, he learned French specifically so he would be better able to communicate with media, fans, and staff. He became so endeared to everyone as "Le Grand Orange" that he became the first Expos player to have his number retired (#10, retired May 15, 1993).
• In New York, Staub opened two famous restaurants, "Rusty's" on the Upper East Side and "Rusty Staub's on Fifth" in Midtown, where the slugger could often be found in person either greeting guests or even working in the kitchen. He was a deeply hands-on restauranteur who loved cooking, wine, hospitality, and building community.
• During his second stint with the Mets, in addition to his roles as elder statesman and pinch-hitter extraordinaire, Staub promised Frank Cashen he would keep a Ron Darling out of trouble and make sure he was ready to pitch every fifth day after the GM expressed concern about the young pitcher living in NYC.
• Most importantly, in 1985 Staub founded The New York Police and Fire Widows’ and Children’s Benefit Fund, which raised over $140 million for the families of fallen FDNY, NYPD, and PAPD heroes killed in the line of duty by the time of Rusty's passing in 2018.
Rusty Staub is one of those guys that could go into the Hall of Fame with a blank cap because he was a true cornerstone everywhere he went, on and off the field.
