RIP Bud Harrelson

[TheSportsPredictor]

Pete Rose has outlived Ray Fosse and now Bud, despite being years older than both:

Harrelson, Mets SS who fought Rose, dies at 79

 

[Slacker]

Pete Rose has outlived Ray Fosse and now Bud, despite being years older than both:

Harrelson, Mets SS who fought Rose, dies at 79

Everything Pete Rose touches dies.

RIP, Bud.

 

[maumann]

Kubek, Harrelson, Kessinger, Menke, Belanger, Brinkman. So many all-star quality great-field, no-hit shortstops of that era.

I think that's why guys like Robin Yount and Cal Ripken Jr. were such outliers when they came along. We were used to guys hitting eighth because the pitcher had to bat ninth.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Also glad to see they got "scrappy" into the headline and "gritty" into the 5-foot-11 white guy's obit.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Kubek, Harrelson, Kessinger, Menke, Belanger, Brinkman. So many all-star quality great-field, no-hit shortstops of that era.

I think that's why guys like Robin Yount and Cal Ripken Jr. were such outliers when they came along. We were used to guys hitting eighth because the pitcher had to bat ninth.

Kubek and Kessinger were at least proficient MLB hitters. Even Menke had five double-digit HR seasons.

Catchers to some degree have replaced the 1970s-era shortstops as the good-field, no-hit guys in the lineup.

 

[Liut]

Kubek, Harrelson, Kessinger, Menke, Belanger, Brinkman. So many all-star quality great-field, no-hit shortstops of that era.

I think that's why guys like Robin Yount and Cal Ripken Jr. were such outliers when they came along. We were used to guys hitting eighth because the pitcher had to bat ninth.

What a cool freaking list of names. As a kid, saw a game in St. Louis during Kessinger's weird brief time wearing the Birds on the Bat. Fast forward, called a weekend series at Ole Miss when he was head baseball coach.
With the exception of Kubek, think I had every single one of those guys' Topps cards.

 

[LanceyHoward]

Kubek, Harrelson, Kessinger, Menke, Belanger, Brinkman. So many all-star quality great-field, no-hit shortstops of that era.

I think that's why guys like Robin Yount and Cal Ripken Jr. were such outliers when they came along. We were used to guys hitting eighth because the pitcher had to bat ninth.

You are forgetting Woodie Held. He mostly played shortstop in the 50's and 60's and had 179 career home runs, mostly with the Indians.

I will never forget him because my first baseball glove was a Woodie Held model.

 

[maumann]

You are forgetting Woodie Held. He mostly played shortstop in the 50's and 60's and had 179 career home runs, mostly with the Indians.

I will never forget him because my first baseball glove was a Woodie Held model.

Mine was Jim Lefevbre. At least Woodie Held is easy to spell.

 

[micropolitan guy]

You are forgetting Woodie Held. He mostly played shortstop in the 50's and 60's and had 179 career home runs, mostly with the Indians.

I will never forget him because my first baseball glove was a Woodie Held model.

Rico Petrocelli and **** McAuliffe had some pop, as did Ron Hansen when he came up.

Woodie Held started at short for the Tribe on 7/28/62 in the second MLB game I ever saw; I was 7 years old, about to turn 8. He went 0-4 with two Ks in a 5-2 loss to the Twins. WP Jim Kaat, LP Gary Bell, before a Saturday afternoon crowd of 8,509 at Municipal Stadium.

Baseball Reference is wonderful.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Rico Petrocelli and **** McAuliffe had some pop, as did Ron Hansen when he came up.

Woodie Held started at short for the Tribe on 7/28/62 in the second MLB game I ever saw. He went 0-4 with two Ks in a 5-2 loss to the Twins. WP Jim Kaat, LP Gary Bell, before a Saturday afternoon crowd of 8,509 at Municipal Stadium.

Baseball Reference is wonderful.

Did Ron have any unassisted triple plays that day?

 

[micropolitan guy]

Did Ron have any unassisted triple plays that day?

No, he never played for Cleveland, mostly for Baltimore and the White Sox. I think that play came when he was with the Senators in 1968.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

No, he never played for Cleveland, mostly for Baltimore and the White Sox. I think that play came when he was with the Senators in 1968.

I initially asked if he played all nine positions that day but Googled it to make sure. Good thing! Baseball Players Do The Most Amazing Things is wonderful but 40-whatever years later, the tales get a little fuzzy. Like that time Jim Marshall hit a homer and jogged around the bases backwards.

 

[micropolitan guy]

I initially asked if he played all nine positions that day but Googled it to make sure. Good thing! Baseball Players Do The Most Amazing Things is wonderful but 40-whatever years later, the tales get a little fuzzy. Like that time Jim Marshall hit a homer and jogged around the bases backwards.

That's the trouble when you get to my age, there is so much stuff to remember. Easier when you're 20 and your brain isn't all clogged up.

But I can tell you more players from the 1962-66 Indians than from the current Guardians, other than Steven Kwan.

 

[playthrough]

That's the trouble when you get to my age, there is so much stuff to remember. Easier when you're 20 and your brain isn't all clogged up.

But I can tell you more players from the 1962-66 Indians than from the current Guardians, other than Steven Kwan.

I read a piece about Bob Knight's final few months with dementia and how he had lost virtually all his basketball memories -- yet could still recite the Cleveland Indians rosters of his childhood.

 

[OscarMadison]

Stan Mikita was supposedly a Blackhawks fan in his last years, but had no memories of being one. Dementia is cruel.