Pure as the driven slush. Writer and unofficial historian for The @PitcherList. https://xitter.cf/t.co/JbMqyd2uGR. Baseball History Lesson every day!
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Joined April 2008
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Making the move to mastodon, and after some thought, I have two accounts ('cause I'm odd that way)
* Personal @siddfinch@mastodon.sdf.org
* Baseball @siddfinch@hellosports.page
Life has interrupted my daily history lessons, but they'll get started again soon!
On The Wire (@EightyGrade) looks at NL Central opportunities.
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The @PitcherList Wayback Machine looks at a baseball institution.
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When Mack retired, his managerial records were extraordinary:
7,755 games.
3,731 wins.
3,948 losses.
53 seasons.
He remains MLB's winningest AND losingest manager.
A reminder that if you stick around long enough, history will record both your triumphs and failures.
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Last night's game was called.
As my father went to bed last night, I had a sobering thought: this might be the last playoff run he remembers.
#ThereIsCryingInBaseball
Give'm hell, @CleGuardians.
So while we wait, the @PitcherList Wayback Machine takes us back to 1982.
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Milwaukee won 6-4 and took a 3-2 Series lead.
Yount was hitting .524 through five games.
The Brewers eventually lost the Series in seven, but Yount finished with 12 hits and a .414 average.
One of the great World Series performances in a losing cause.
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I grew up with baseball in the 70s, most of players back then looked like they were in the 40s and 50s.
You can look it up if you want, who was the oldest player in #MLB when you first started watching it?
For me, Nolan Ryan in 1993 - he was 46 years old.
Cannot wait to read your replies.
Are we sure that game 4 was not move to Sunday and today we are playing game 5? Seems odd to move both games.
I will refer to today's game as game 5.
Addie Joss, the King of the Pitchers.
Joe Sewell, a man who was allergic to strike three.
Larry Doby walked into the American League on July 5, 1947, less than three months after Jackie Robinson's debut, and he didn't get a minor league stop first. Bill Veeck bought his contract from the Newark Eagles and Doby was pinch hitting in Chicago two days later.
In 1954 he hit 32 homers and drove in 126 for a Cleveland team that won 111 games. In 1978, with the White Sox, he followed Frank Robinson as the second Black manager in American or National League history.
He's ninth here. The Hall of Fame didn't call until 1998.
Who's first on your all time Guardians list?
Not sure about this take.
1. There will be two VERY good baseball teams in the World Series and a number of great stories on those teams.
2. The problem isn't that low-market teams can't win; it's keeping players long-term and spreading the wealth in the game.
He knows the gig.
Hammy is now a HOFer and is loved beyond Cleveland. He'll get the call before MLB announcers do. Rosey hasn't achieved that level of recognition yet (and may never).
