RIP Bill Bucker
Sad news today about former #Dodgers teammate Billy Buckner. One play during a long career should never define this great ball player and tough as nails competitor #RIPBillBucker
Sad news today about former #Dodgers teammate Billy Buckner. One play during a long career should never define this great ball player and tough as nails competitor #RIPBillBucker
Great to see my friend Larry Shenk at the #Phillies #SpringTraining Alumni Day on Saturday
This week we caught up with Barbara Herrmann (Ed’s wife). After we exchanged a couple of messages, she shared with us the work she is doing to continue the support for one of Ed’s favorite charities: The Greatest Save The Greatest Save (TGS) is a national safety program seeking to arm kids and teens with…
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…
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On this day, 41 years ago Jackie Robinson died. Here is his obituary written by Dave Anderson and published by the New York Times on October 25, 1972 Jackie Robinson, First Black in Major Leagues, Dies Jackie Robinson, who made history in 1947 by becoming the first black baseball player in the major leagues, suffered…
On the night of June 10, 1974, in Houston, Schmidt gave the baseball world a taste of his hall of fame power in the first inning against the Astros’ Claude Osteen. With runners on first and second, Schmidt drove a ball off a public-address speaker hanging from the Astrodome roof in center field. The speaker…