On this day in 1955, the great Roberto Clemente hit his first #MLB home run… a 450 foot inside the park blast at the Polo Grounds
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On Saturday February 10th, over 600 fans arrived at Spectrum Field in Clearwater Florida to take part in honoring the Class of 2018 Ted Williams Museum Inductees. Tony Perez, Dick Allen, Ron Guidry, J.R. Richard & Charlie Manuel were inducted on a beautiful night prior to the start of spring training. The Williams Hall of Fame was founded in February 1994 and is housed inside the Rays’ home ballpark, Tropicana Field, in St. Petersburg. Additionally, the Pitching Wall of ...
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Happy 75th Birthday to my friend & former teammate Fergie Jenkins @fergiejenkinsfoundation
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My friend Jim Bunning would have been 86 years old today. Please join me in sending good thoughts to his family today.
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Plaque hanging on the old Wampum High School building.
Dick’s brothers Coy, Hank, Caesar and Ron are all represented here remembering the Wampum High School Indians.
Editors note: The previous version of this post was incorrectly written with two errors:
1) The post failed to recognized Dick’s brother, CAESAR CRAINE.
2) The author ...
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On this day in 1970, Erine Banks took a pitch from Braves righty Pat Jarvis over the wall and into the Wrigley Field bleachers for the 500th home run of his Hall of Fame career. Rico Carty retrieved the ball after it bounced off a fan’s hand.
Future Hall of Famers would continue to have a big impact on the game — Billy Williams hit a home run off Hoyt Wilhelm in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game and Ron Santo would drive in the ...
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One of our Twitter followers asked this: @DickAllen_15 What’s your favorite Willie Mays story that you can share on Twitter?
Tried to do it with 140 characters, but really couldn’t.
Willie Mays was a GREAT defensive outfielder. Probably the best ever. One day in San Francisco I convinced him to let me try out his glove. He agreed, laughing that “he would do just about anything to help me out there”.
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Happy Birthday Willie Mays! To this day… knowing & learning from "Buck" has been one of my life's great joys #sayheykid #Giants
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Today #Phillies teammate Wes Covington would've been 83. Won ring w Hank Aaron & Chuck Tanner on '57 Braves
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