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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-17-2016, 10:21 PM
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Back in the early and mid '60s I was into hero worship. The Dodgers were still in the golden years. Roseboro along with a few other Dodgers were heroes. As I grew older, that changed as it always will. However, John Roseboro's caring and forgiving behavior toward Marichal, as both men aged, reinstated him in that Pantheon.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-17-2016, 09:02 PM
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That was BEFORE catchers wore helmets.
Sandy Koufax was the Dodgers pitcher that day. He was well known as not being a "head hunter" like Marichal was known and would not retaliate. With Marichal batting, as Roseboro stood up, on follow-through while throwing the ball back to Koufax, he would bring his hand close (inches away) from Marichal's head in the batter's box. For our non American friends, that would be only a couple of inches closer than normal. Marichal could only hear it, not see it, and overreacted. The only player that was actually hit by a pitch that day was the Dodgers first baseman star Parker by the Giant's replacement pitcher. It seems like I heard this game only a couple of years ago. I heard or saw portions hundreds of games Roseboro played in.
John Roseboro was the replacement for the great Roy Campanella after his devastating accident. Roseboro, if memory serves me correctly is second only to Campanella in WS games as a Dodger catcher.
Years later after both players retired, Marichal apologized to Roseboro and asked for his forgiveness. Roseboro forgave him without thought or condition. It was only after that exchange that Marichal was elected to the Hall of Fame, as if the electors were waiting for that exchange.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-06-2015, 09:55 PM
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Wow, Hank Greenberg buried in Los Angeles.
184 RBIs in one season. The most for any right handed player. Almost broke Babe Ruth's home run record.
As one of the first prominent Jewish athletes, he faced racism and heckling found in our country's pre-WWII attitudes about race. In his last year as a player, when he was with the Pirates, very early in the season he offered Jackie Robinson words of encouragement in his first year with the Dodgers. That was after the Pirates manager ordered Greenberg to heckle Robinson. He was one of the few non-Dodgers to offer such.
Drafted and served in the Army and was discharged 48 hours before Pearl Harbor. Initially he was found medically unfit to be drafted, but asked for a reappraisal. Immediately after Pearl Harbor, he reinlisted, serving more time in WWII than any other major league player. He was baseball's first peacetime draftee and first wartime enlistee.
He is more than one of the greatest players ever, more than one of the first prominent Jewish athletes, he was an American hero!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-23-2014, 09:53 AM
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Kyle,
This series is great. Good work!
I fondly remember Ralph Story's Los Angeles. Thanks for the memory prod.
-Lance
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-08-2012, 03:53 PM
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I follow this thread. I like it. Keep up the good work.
It is nice that you have shown the marker of a true hero. He first tried the vaccine on himself before testing it with others. When asked about if he held the patent on the drug, he replied "Who could patent the sun?"
 Quote: El Camino.
Jonas Salk was a medical researcher who developed the vaccine against polio, a disease which killed more children than any other communicable disease.  |
