"The Giants win the pennant, the Giants win the pennant"...RIP Bobby Thomson

[abq e streeter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrI7dVj90zs&feature=player_embedded



And on a strange tangent--just last night, on my way to seeing a concert by another Thompson from across the pond ,(Richard...and Bobby was born in Glascow Scotland), I'd remarked to my friend how 3 of the most culturally influential Americans of the 20th century all had died on August 16th: Babe Ruth, Elvis Presley, and Robert Johnson... And come to find out that the man who hit arguably the most famous home run in baseball history died last night; August 16th.
Got to see Thomson play for the Cubs when I was a little kid in the late 50's....Again, RIP, Bobby Thomson.

[Tansy_Gold]

1. There's nothing in sport to compare with the thrill of a game-winning home run

Nothing. Not a three-pointer at the buzzer, not a Hail Mary pass with no time left on the clock, not a photo finish in the Derby.

RIP Bobby, and thanks.





Tansy Gold, who still remembers October 13, 1960 like it was yesterday

[EFerrari]

3. My mom came home from work and said she won the pool

and I thought we'd won a swimming pool!

lol

:)

[abq e streeter]

4. youtube of Maz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix848GU0gNo&feature=related

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Triavia question: Who served up the pitch to Mazeroski?

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Answer: Although Pirate broadcaster Bob Prince named Art Ditmar as the pitch was thrown, the man on the mound was Ralph Terry.

[abq e streeter]

6. I'd always had thought it was Ralph Terry(who redeemed himself with his game 7 shutout in'62)

and was confused when I first saw this video and Prince (or the announcer formerly known as Prince) said Ditmar.
I can remember watching that game 7 (yeah I'm that old) , and was a Yankee hater and remember disgustedly shutting off the TV moments after Bobby Richardson snagged Willie McCovey's line drive for the third out with Alou and Mays on base.
Didn't get to see Mazeroski's home run live on TV because our mean old 4th grade teacher wouldn't let us watch (despite the incessant whining and bitching from all the boys in the class). Damn teachers; thinking that learning stuff was more important than baseball.

[malaise]

7. Want to bet - clearly you don't watch cricket

A winning run, or a wicket on the last ball of a cricket match is the most exciting moment in sport.

[abq e streeter]

8. I don't know; curling is the one that leaves me breathless

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Ah, shucks

Russ Hodges, who called the play-by-play for the Giants as Thompson homered, passed away in 1971.

Ralph Branca, who served up the pitch, is now 84 years old.

Whitey Lockman, the runner at second, passed way in 2009 at the age of 82.

Alvin Dark, the runner at third, is now 88 years old.

Willie Mays, soon to be named the National League Rookie-of-the-Year, was waiting on deck. He is now 79 years old.

[Brother Buzz]

9. I delivered the afternoon paper to the man the uttered those famous words.

Russ Hodges lived up the hill from me, a GREAT tipper. He made to move to the West Coast with the Giants and became an institution in the Bay Area. "Bye-Bye, Baby!".

Unfortunately the Giants traded Bobby Thomson to the Cubs before the team made the move so he never made a huge impression in my young baseball mind.

RIP, Thompson, you did good.

abq e streeter, Hodges lived on the same little hill Vince Guaraldi lived on.

[abq e streeter]

10. Cool 'hood ! That call by Russ Hodges has to be easily the most famous one in baseball history

the only sort of famous people in mine were Carlos May of the White Sox and the brother (so not famous himself obviously) of a guy Guaraldi may have very well even known, jazz singer/pianist Bobby Short.


And glad the Cubs got Thomson briefly; one more legendary player I can say I saw play in person.

[Jack Rabbit]

11. You must remember this, then

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