“I’m auctioning the uniform to provide my grandsons with enough money for a college education,” Larsen, 82, said Friday in a telephone interview from his home in Hayden Lake, Idaho. “What the uniform actually sells for is not that important to me; whatever happens, happens. I’m just hoping for enough to help the grandkids.”
Don Larsen, the only pitcher to throw a perfect game in a World Series, is putting his jersey from that magical 1956 game up for bid so he can help his grandsons pay for college.
(via joshsternberg)
mets:
Fred Ehmsen from Huntington, NY donned an orange wig, along with his orange pants and lucky Mets jersey to honor former Met Rusty Staub, who has had his own bobblehead day today at Citi Field.
With today’s report that Cubs P Kerry Wood will announce his retirement, we couldn’t help but think back to this 20-strikeout masterpiece.
No, I’m not going to give you any more context for why an unbearably cute bulldog has a ball taped to his back and is standing on the pitching mound. You’ll have to do that for yourself.
Mayor Bloomberg and Mr. Met have a great reason to celebrate.
Mayor Bloomberg, Commissioner of Major League Baseball Allan (Bud) H. Selig and New York Mets Chairman and CEO Fred Wilpon today announced that Citi Field will host the 2013 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Read more on nyc.gov.
good:
Everett Steele is an Atlanta Braves fan. He goes to games, he wears Braves apparel, he tweets about the team to his 16,000-plus Twitter followers. He’s a big enough fan that when he started noticing people misspelling the team’s name as “Barves” online, he spent time and money making it a meme. Seems harmless enough, right? Not to Major League Baseball, it doesn’t.
Have you ever had such a bad day at work that your wife started pushing out a kid? Remember that the next time you have to prepare for that big client meeting.
(via Mike Vassallo, Eye on Baseball)
Jets TE Dustin Keller takes in the action on Friday night.
If you don’t have anything nice to say…
Philadelphia’s Jonathan Papelbon leaves the field as fans react after he gave up a three run home run to the New York Mets at Citizens Bank Park on Monday. The Mets won 5-2. (Photo by Drew Hallowell/Getty Images)
CC Sabathia at Fenway Park.
Happy Willie Mays’ birthday!
Obit of the Day: The Daisy Who Was a Daisy (and a Blue Sock and a Sally)
After World War II, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League seemed destined to fail with the return of major league players from their service in Europe and Asia. Instead the league expanded to ten teams throughout the Midwest (it was based in Chicago), and would play through 1954.
Daisy Junor was one of the players who joined the league after the war. She would play for three full seasons (1946-1948), and nine games in 1949, for the South Bend (IN) Blue Sox, Springfield (IL) Sallies, and Ft. Wayne (IN) Daisies. A fairly weak hitter (lifetime average of .152) she did well on the basepaths, stealing 33 bases in only 99 games in her rookie year. (Over a full 162 game season that would equate to 54 SBs.) You can find her full career stats here.
Junor who was also a champion golfer and bowler in her home province of Saskatchewan was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame (most famous inductee: hockey legend Gordie Howe) as well as the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame (most famous inductee: former Astro Terry Puhl).
Daisy Junor died at the age of 92.
Additional sources: Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame, alt.obituaries
(Image courtesy of sportsartifacts.com)
Babe Ruth slides safely into home during a 1934 Yankees-Tigers game. (AP)
GALLERY: Classic Photos of Babe Ruth
Mickey Mantle painting.
(via mlb)
