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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 7, 2020 17:21:02 GMT
got a new playbook:
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 9, 2020 18:29:57 GMT
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Post by fjenkins on Jan 9, 2020 19:17:10 GMT
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 9, 2020 22:05:32 GMT
I read Vaccaro's other two books, 1941 and Emperors and Idiots. I'll get o this when the Kindle price comes down. $14 for a 322 page book is silly.
Mike Vaccaro, graduate of St, Bonaventure Univ. Yet more quality from Western New York
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 11, 2020 22:05:38 GMT
I read Vaccaro's other two books, 1941 and Emperors and Idiots. I'll get o this when the Kindle price comes down. $14 for a 322 page book is silly.
Mike Vaccaro, graduate of St, Bonaventure Univ. Yet more quality from Western New York
nice! thanks.
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Post by SportsFan19 on Jan 11, 2020 22:52:31 GMT
thx! just ordered it from my lib. I really can't think of a good book about just a World Series other than the 1919. Plenty of good chapters. Stuff I never knew. In the 2nd volume of Norman Macht's brilliant biography of Connie Mack, he tells of the 1929 WS and Game One. The legend always says that Mack played a "hunch". Instead of starting George Earnshaw or Bob Grove in Game One, he ran out Howard Ehmke. Ehmke was about 600 years old and had only pitched in three games since the end of July. Well, Methuselah Ehmke struck out 13 Cubs and effectively ended the series right there. Some hunch, right? Ehmke hadn't pitched because he was secretly following the Cubs around as a scout. He knew the lineup better than Joe McCarthy. And he played another trick. McCarthy asked Mack if he minded if his coach, Joe Tinker watched the A's batting practice. mack said sure. Then told his pitchers to throw pitches in the hot zones of the mighty A's hitter and the batter to whiff pitifully. So Tinker went back to Chicago with tales of how Jimmie Foxx couldn't hit this pitch and Black Mickey Cochrane couldn't hit this. So the Cubs pitchers threw this to Foxx and that to Cochrane and got cricks in their necks watching the baseballs leave the park.
This doesn't have shit to do with shit other than to remind you to read the Mack bio.
All three books?
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 12, 2020 6:39:31 GMT
I really can't think of a good book about just a World Series other than the 1919. Plenty of good chapters. Stuff I never knew. In the 2nd volume of Norman Macht's brilliant biography of Connie Mack, he tells of the 1929 WS and Game One. The legend always says that Mack played a "hunch". Instead of starting George Earnshaw or Bob Grove in Game One, he ran out Howard Ehmke. Ehmke was about 600 years old and had only pitched in three games since the end of July. Well, Methuselah Ehmke struck out 13 Cubs and effectively ended the series right there. Some hunch, right? Ehmke hadn't pitched because he was secretly following the Cubs around as a scout. He knew the lineup better than Joe McCarthy. And he played another trick. McCarthy asked Mack if he minded if his coach, Joe Tinker watched the A's batting practice. mack said sure. Then told his pitchers to throw pitches in the hot zones of the mighty A's hitter and the batter to whiff pitifully. So Tinker went back to Chicago with tales of how Jimmie Foxx couldn't hit this pitch and Black Mickey Cochrane couldn't hit this. So the Cubs pitchers threw this to Foxx and that to Cochrane and got cricks in their necks watching the baseballs leave the park.
This doesn't have shit to do with shit other than to remind you to read the Mack bio.
All three books? Yeah. lots of pages but worth it
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 15, 2020 18:13:44 GMT
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jan 15, 2020 18:15:39 GMT
THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!!!* THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!!!* THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!!!*
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 17, 2020 15:40:48 GMT
THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!!!* THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!!!* THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!!!* what's everyone reading this weekend?
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 18, 2020 18:02:36 GMT
One I want to read is this www.rumorintown.com/book.htmlFor those who don't know Babe Dahlgren was a Yankee first baseman. He was a big time prospect and was Lou Gehrig's replacement. But he was railroaded out of baseball by unsubstantiated rumor of marijuana use. The book is one I want to read but it's ver expensive. sabr.org/bioproj/person/c9a1e3a4
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 20, 2020 0:18:57 GMT
One I want to read is this www.rumorintown.com/book.htmlFor those who don't know Babe Dahlgren was a Yankee first baseman. He was a big time prospect and was Lou Gehrig's replacement. But he was railroaded out of baseball by unsubstantiated rumor of marijuana use. The book is one I want to read but it's ver expensive. sabr.org/bioproj/person/c9a1e3a4cool. i will look for it. thx!
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Feb 1, 2020 20:20:05 GMT
I need some books pm me please. Civil War? I’m at work now. I’ll have some tomorrow. I have over 200 Rey Kahuka TheGoodMan19 reading any good sports books at the moment?
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Feb 1, 2020 20:36:53 GMT
About as far away from baseball as I can get
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Feb 1, 2020 22:39:43 GMT
About as far away from baseball as I can get this is pretty good, the michael jordan stories are funny:
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Mar 15, 2020 19:28:08 GMT
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 15, 2020 19:47:56 GMT
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Mar 15, 2020 23:56:37 GMT
didn't know about uk baseballl...
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Post by fjenkins on Mar 16, 2020 15:38:29 GMT
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Mar 16, 2020 16:44:20 GMT
nice! have this pre-ordered from amazon....i'm sure they aren't out of this (book)!
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