RIP Grant Jackson

[fossywriter8]

‘He never got enough credit’: Pirates remember unsung hero Grant Jackson

 

[Scout]

Game seven winner.

Earl Weaver - HOF for ****ing up the World Series

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Probably the only big leaguer from Fostoria, although Micah Hyde currently plays for the Buffalo Bills. It’s a town I rode through just about every week growing up em route to visit my grandma.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Game seven winner.

Earl Weaver - HOF for ****ing up the World Series

You’re here just to **** us.

 

[HanSenSE]

Jackson, Tekulve and Don "Cave Man" Robinson were nails for those Pirates.

 

[goalmouth]

A key to the Yankees' playoff drive in 1976, 6-0, first year I got to enjoy that.

 

[Scout]

A key to the Yankees' playoff drive in 1976, 6-0, first year I got to enjoy that.

It seems completely unnatural that a good player went from the Yankees to the Pirates.

 

[The Big Ragu]

It seems completely unnatural that a good player went from the Yankees to the Pirates.

Yankees lost him in the expansion draft to Seattle, which then traded him to Pittsburgh.

 

[Scout]

Yankees lost him in the expansion draft to Seattle, which then traded him to Pittsburgh.

The point remains.

I can’t think of one player in the last 20 years that went from the major teams to the Pirates with anything left in their career.

 

[User 149557]

Probably the only big leaguer from Fostoria, although Micah Hyde currently plays for the Buffalo Bills. It’s a town I rode through just about every week growing up em route to visit my grandma.

Didn’t former Eagle and Buckeye Damon Moore come from there? I seem to remember watching him play for the Redmen back in the 90s. (Man they were fun to watch back then.)

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

Kind of interesting that he faced the Pirates as a member of the Orioles in '71 and then faced the Orioles as a member of the Pirates in '79.

One thing that I remember about him was this sequence that you don't see anymore. In Game 5 of the '76 ALCS, he gave up a 3-run homer to Brett that tied the game. The next batter, John Mayberry, got a pitch that sailed over his head. I can't remember the last time I saw that, where the next batter pays the price (or gets a fastball under the chin) for what the previous one did.

 

[Scout]

He had 32 decisions in one season for a Phillie team that did their best to throw his arm out.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Kind of interesting that he faced the Pirates as a member of the Orioles in '71 and then faced the Orioles as a member of the Pirates in '79.

One thing that I remember about him was this sequence that you don't see anymore. In Game 5 of the '76 ALCS, he gave up a 3-run homer to Brett that tied the game. The next batter, John Mayberry, got a pitch that sailed over his head. I can't remember the last time I saw that, where the next batter pays the price (or gets a fastball under the chin) for what the previous one did.

One inning later. ... Chris Chambliss became my favorite player from my childhood. The sequence is interesting in that he sailed one over Mayberry's head (i.e. "Big John Mayberry," as I can still hear Bill White saying during the Yankees broadcasts when I was a kid), but nobody even batted an eyelash. Like that kind of thing just happens after you give up a 3-run hr in the 8th that ties up the game.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Probably the only big leaguer from Fostoria, although Micah Hyde currently plays for the Buffalo Bills.

Marcus, Micah’s brother, played for Michigan State

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

That was right at the time I started to follow baseball. One of the things I remember about that 1979 Pirate team was how Chuck Tanner rode the plus side of his bullpen hard and hung them up wet. Jackson had 72 appearances — and he was No. 3 on the team. Tekulve had 94 and Enrique Romo had 84. The three combined for 46 decisions, which means they were being used in a lot of instances where the team was tied or trailing.

 

[Scout]

That was right at the time I started to follow baseball. One of the things I remember about that 1979 Pirate team was how Chuck Tanner rode the plus side of his bullpen hard and hung them up wet. Jackson had 72 appearances — and he was No. 3 on the team. Tekulve had 94 and Enrique Romo had 84. The three combined for 46 decisions, which means they were being used in a lot of instances where the team was tied or trailing.

With loft angle being so important and bullpens being used every third pitch, I wonder why the submarine style of Tekulve and Quisenberry isn’t coming back.

 

[Scout]

That was right at the time I started to follow baseball. One of the things I remember about that 1979 Pirate team was how Chuck Tanner rode the plus side of his bullpen hard and hung them up wet. Jackson had 72 appearances — and he was No. 3 on the team. Tekulve had 94 and Enrique Romo had 84. The three combined for 46 decisions, which means they were being used in a lot of instances where the team was tied or trailing.

That team had decent starting pitching, at best, and could score runs like crazy, too.

 

[Liut]

One inning later. ... Chris Chambliss became my favorite player from my childhood. The sequence is interesting in that he sailed one over Mayberry's head (i.e. "Big John Mayberry," as I can still hear Bill White saying during the Yankees broadcasts when I was a kid), but nobody even batted an eyelash. Like that kind of thing just happens after you give up a 3-run hr in the 8th that ties up the game.

What a finish! And I was a Kansas City fan. For some reason, McRae was playing RF. Herzog later claimed if Al Cowens had been out there instead, he would have caught it.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

With loft angle being so important and bullpens being used every third pitch, I wonder why the submarine style of Tekulve and Quisenberry isn’t coming back.

There are pros and cons. When a submariner misses, a lot of times he misses up in the strike zone. Also, a left-handed batter can get a good look at a (right-handed) submarine pitch. However, a submariner gives the batter an unusual look because of their rarity and is less prone to shoulder injuries.

 

[fossywriter8]

Didn’t former Eagle and Buckeye Damon Moore come from there? I seem to remember watching him play for the Redmen back in the 90s. (Man they were fun to watch back then.)

Yes, Damon played high school football for Fostoria. Along with the Eagles, he also played for the Bears.