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Any insights or memories about this team.......I will give mine later....
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the $%#%! plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all. ~Earl Weaver -
Gabe Paul returning from the Yanks as the president. Wayne Garland being signed to a 10 year contract as a free agent and promptly leading the AL in losses and getting injured. Dennis Eckersley being the best starter on the staff in 1976 & 1977 before being shipped to Boston because his best friend, Rick Manning, was allegedly having an affair with Eckersley's wife. -
1977, Duane Kuiper's ONLY homer :disbelief:
This was just before I started going to see them in personMythical SF Chronicle scouting report: "That Jeff runs like a deer. Unfortunately, he also hits AND throws like one." I am Venus DeMilo - NO ARM! I can play like a big leaguer, I can field like Luzinski, run like Lombardi. The secret to managing is keeping the ones who hate you away from the undecided ones. I am a triumph of quantity over quality. I'm almost useful, every village needs an idiot.
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I remember in the 1977 seaon, Art Modell's Stadium Corporation had decided to replace the hand operated scoreboard for an electronic one. This left the Indians with a line-score board in the bleachers that looked like it would have been low tech at Brookside Park. If you see any video of Eckersley's ho-hitter, you will see it in all its glory.Comment
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Boog Powell looking like a giant red blood clot.Comment
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Was Rick Turnbull on that team?
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I don't know if it's because of the all red uniforms, but I've never liked uniforms in any color except white or gray.Originally posted by ACrank View PostComment
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Mythical SF Chronicle scouting report: "That Jeff runs like a deer. Unfortunately, he also hits AND throws like one." I am Venus DeMilo - NO ARM! I can play like a big leaguer, I can field like Luzinski, run like Lombardi. The secret to managing is keeping the ones who hate you away from the undecided ones. I am a triumph of quantity over quality. I'm almost useful, every village needs an idiot.
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Boog in his softball uniform.smokerComment
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I don't know if that was even a softball uniform in 1976. It was definetely a jogging suit, however.Comment
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was that the time frame when the Indians mgr drew the lineups out of a hat - ending up with Powell hitting leadoff and Duane Kuiper hitting cleanup?
and Frank Robinson with a game winning HR in his first game as player/mgrComment
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It wasn't a game winning HR. Robinson hit a HR in his AB as player-manager in 1975.Originally posted by ACrank View PostComment
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Drat. A fading memory is the second sign of advancing old age. Thanks for the refresher course.Originally posted by EdTarbusz View PostComment
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No problem. My dad let my brother and I play hooky so we could go to that game.Originally posted by ACrank View PostComment
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Rick Waits.Comment
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