MLB 2022: The Long and Winding Thread

Maybe Josh Donaldson should read it.

 

HE STILL AIN'T TOUCHED THE PLATE!

 

The Athletic article said it’s was a $10,000 buy-in with a $10,000 penalty to the team that finished last.

 

Here's the boxscore:

 

Pirates are the first to sweep at Dodger Stadium in 4 years.

 

Yep, looks like the author fucked up.

Damn, Jackie went 4-for-5 in that game.

 

They are still five games under .500 and tied for the worst run differential in the majors.

Maybe they have found something. Maybe these young players who have helped them recently really are good. If that's the case, perhaps they should have been up all along. Nah. That might have cost the team more money at some point.

 

There's a plaque commemorating Robinson's Jersey City debut, at the apartment complex in Caven Point where Roosevelt Stadium was. The Dodgers played 23 home games there in '56 and '57. Also, Rickey Henderson played there in '78, the only season in pro ball when he didn't homer. Also, also, The Dead and Pink Floyd played Roosevelt Stadium. And THEY didn't homer.

 

Few more things that are interesting about Rickey ...

Henderson was born on December 25, 1958, in Chicago, Illinois, in the back seat of an Oldsmobile on the way to the hospital. Henderson later joked, "I was already fast. I couldn't wait."[7] He was named Rickey Nelson Henley, after singer-actor Ricky Nelson,[8] and is the son of John L. Henley and Bobbie Henley.[8] When he was two years old, his father left home, and his family moved to Oakland, California, when he was seven. His father died in an automobile accident 10 years after leaving home.[9] His mother married Paul Henderson in Rickey Henley's junior year of high school and the family adopted the Henderson surname.[8] As a child learning to play baseball in Oakland, Henderson developed the ability to bat right-handed although he was a naturally left-handed thrower—a rare combination for baseball players, especially non-pitchers.[10] In the entire history of Major League Baseball through the 2008 season, only 57 position players are known to have batted right and thrown left, and Henderson is easily the most successful player to do so.[11] Henderson later said, "All my friends were right-handed and swung from the right side, so I thought that's the way it was supposed to be done."[12]​

 

My favorite Rickey story, doesn’t matter if it’s true
During his record stolen base year a friend told him he had to start using an alias on the road so people wouldn’t bother him
Next trip he checked in as Richard Pryor

 

Thanks for the box score. Bobby Thomson playing CF for Jersey City.

In the entire history of Major League Baseball through the 2008 season, only 57 position players are known to have batted right and thrown left, and Henderson is easily the most successful player to do so.

So, never mind that I had no power. As a TR, BL guy, I never really had a chance.

 

One of the books written by Chris Mortensen (who I've known and worked with since the '70s) on John Madden had two factual errors on Page 1.