Better than anything you'll read in today's newspaper ...

Best blog posting ever. Laugh until your sides hurt funny.

 

I'll probably end up burning out my eyeballs tonight reading more of this guy's stuff.

World famous sausage stew, indeed.

 

I don't think it is. He's said he loves writing so much that he does it as much as he can and in any form. Fortunately for us, he does this on a daily basis.

 

I've bumped into Chuck all over the world, and he's good people. A really talented writer, too, especially when turned loose to do features and offbeat stuff.

A lot of the stuff, sigh, that newspapers don't seem to have time or space for anymore.

 

Someone at Baseball Think Factory looked it up and said that the Cardinals only had one walk-off hit in 1952, and it was Eddie Stanky who did it.

I did find a bases-loaded, ninth-inning triple by Musial -- on June 17, 1947, against the Phillies in St. Louis. Have no idea about him being called back to the plate after a missed call, though.

 

Well, now you made me go back and read it again, and this anecdote couldn't have happened in 1952 if Solly Hemus was the manager (since he managed the Cardinals from 1958 into 1960). And if Hemus was the manager, then the Dodgers obviously weren't in Brooklyn. Good story and well written, and something like that could have happened, but not in the time frame that was presented.

 

just how many rbi does hank have?

 

2,297 more than Bill James. How many does that make?

 

you witty bastard.