RIP, Tom Tresh

Came aboard near the end of the Yankees' '60s dynasty, a second-generation major leaguer:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2008/10/15/2008-10-15_former_yankee_tom_tresh_dead_at_71.html?ref=nl&nltr_ct=1&nltr_id=Tom%20Tresh%20dead%20at%2071



Vic Ziegel column:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2008/10/15/2008-10-15_tom_tresh_was_always_playing_with_a_full.html

 

Sorry to hear of this. RIP

 

Took a groundball in the throat at a key moment in the 1960 Series, as I recall.

 

FB: Wasn't that Tony Kubek (and in Game 7, I believe)?

 

That was Kubek. Tresh got his chance, though, when Kubek was called to military service in '62. Long before there were name-and-number shirts at retail my dad had us wearing replica Yankees jerseys. My older brother was No. 7, I was No. 8, my next brother was No. 9 and my youngest brother, who was born in 1961, got Tresh's No. 15.

 

Saw Tresh's son Mickey play minor league ball. Bet you can't guess who his godfather was.

 

Full of fail, am I.

 

First baseball game I ever saw was a Bat Day at Yankee Stadium, and I got the Tom Tresh model bat.

 

RIP, Tiger shortstops from 1967-74: Ray Oyler, Tom Tresh, Cesar Gutierrez and Eddie Brinkman, including two in the last couple of weeks.

If I'm Tom Matchick, I'm not buying any green bananas.

 

Nicely put.

 

I remember hearing his 1962 WS homer on my transistor radio while walking home from school.

They showed his photo on the scoreboard at the Yankee Stadium farewell ceremonies but he wasn't there in person.