tiricosuave.com - 5/11/2008
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Karl Ravech, introducing guest Juan Marichal on Baseball Tonight, “Known for his delivery, his deception but most of all for his ability.” He’s also known for taking a bat to the helmetless head of Johnny Roseboro, in one of the more notorious acts in baseball history. Oh, and he also enjoys taking in a good [...]
It All Started Here... —
Mets Walk-Offs And Minutiae
Many scores and 46 years ago (May 12, 1962), Hobie Landrith set forth upon Mets country the first walk-off home run in Mets history, described here, in our first true blog post... http://metswalkoffs.blogspot.com/2005/06/and-so-we-begin.html True Metdriths know... Perhaps Hobie Landrith's greatest non-Mets claim to fame is that he was the first catcher for Hall of Fame pitcher Juan Marichal ...
Cleansing the Palette —
ShysterBall
I can't end the day with a political post, so I offer some sweet rhythm in the form of a link to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Baseball Canto . Excerpt: Watching baseball, sitting in the sun, eating popcorn, reading Ezra Pound, and wishing that Juan Marichal would hit a hole right through the Anglo-Saxon tradition in the first Canto and demolish the barbarian invaders. When the San Francisco Giants ...
