Comments on: Moose and Mariano, plus some actual baseball stuff

By: PAT M.

PAT M. — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:16:33 +0000

I loved Tommy Tresh..Man he had so much gooing for himself, then in a spring training game vs. Detoit he jumps a short fence in Lakeland and tears up his knee….When I first went there in the Florida St. League, I went over to that fence and just reflected on how a great career was over in a second…..

By: GreenBeret7

GreenBeret7 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:12:07 +0000

PAT M.
February 4th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Yeah GB, Pepi was a great talent…His story about the Mick and himself getting hammered the night before the Copperstown exhibition game was one for the books….Apparently, after a night on the town, they missed the bus …Mantle lived at the Plaza back then, so they get a limo to take them up to Copperstown and they hit the Limos wet bar and get feeling quite good…As the limo gets to the park they’re getting dressed and Mantle orders the driver to drive right up to the dugout….Houk makes them both play, hung over , half tanked…Mantle drills one over the rightfield fence and Houk tells Mick take the rest of the day off…Pepi thinks he’ll get s free pass after his AB….Houk makes him play for 6 innings as a punishment for not looking after the Mick….’’ Joe you could have made us proud “” Great reading….Hell, and they think Torre’s novel is out of bounds…..

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Pepitone, Tresh and Linz all idolized mantle. They told stories, but, they told them about each other and they all did it. Boyer was as bad as they were, and I think that’s why they traded him to Atlanta. They thought he was anothebad influence on Mantle. Little did they now that the player they got back drank more than Boyer did and had half the talent.

By: PAT M.

PAT M. — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:04:36 +0000

Yeah GB, Pepi was a great talent…His story about the Mick and himself getting hammered the night before the Copperstown exhibition game was one for the books….Apparently, after a night on the town, they missed the bus …Mantle lived at the Plaza back then, so they get a limo to take them up to Copperstown and they hit the Limos wet bar and get feeling quite good…As the limo gets to the park they’re getting dressed and Mantle orders the driver to drive right up to the dugout….Houk makes them both play, hung over , half tanked…Mantle drills one over the rightfield fence and Houk tells Mick take the rest of the day off…Pepi thinks he’ll get s free pass after his AB….Houk makes him play for 6 innings as a punishment for not looking after the Mick….” Joe you could have made us proud “” Great reading….Hell, and they think Torre’s novel is out of bounds…..

By: GreenBeret7

GreenBeret7 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:56:21 +0000

PAT M.
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:38 pm
GB, It was standard practice that before your bp hacks, you had to drop three down the firstbase , thirdbase, and back to the mound ( mid-way )….Every failed attempt meant that after practice it was an extra ten miuntes of bunting…This held true in AA West Haven….Fines were not uncommon for poor excution…Cox was fanatical about fundamentals…He drilled them into you at he A level, so he had no patience when you ran into him later….

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I remember going to games in the early 60s in Chicago and Detroit. NYY would come out for fielding practice and batting practice…everybody bunted. Everybody knew that the best bunter in baseball was Mantle. Surprisingly, Maris was almost as good, and, that guy could run like a deer. They’d lay a beer cup out there and try bunting a ball into the cup, and damned if they didn’t usually get at least two of five in the cup. Now, they take one..maybe two, half hearted attempts and start wailing away at the seats. Mantle, Maris and Tresh would call their shots as to what field they would hit to. They weramazing. Pepitone just shook his hed and launched them into the upper deck. He never learned the subtle things. God, could he play first base, though. He also played a great cnter field for two years that Mantle played first. Maris was a spectacular center fielder.

By: PAT M.

PAT M. — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:44:29 +0000

Pat I was there in September..In fact I always catch a movie there…Saw Women last time there…Not a single man in the entire movie…I love going to some of the little Bistro’s….I think one of the first Baskins & Robbins open there, not far from Sarah Lawerence hospital….I love Bronxville, even though I stay in Pelham when I go back….

By: Bo knows

Bo knows — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:43:43 +0000

Damn this is good. More, More. Applause, Applause.

(A thundering ovation from the peanut section)

By: PAT M.

PAT M. — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:38:17 +0000

GB, It was standard practice that before your bp hacks, you had to drop three down the firstbase , thirdbase, and back to the mound ( mid-way )….Every failed attempt meant that after practice it was an extra ten miuntes of bunting…This held true in AA West Haven….Fines were not uncommon for poor excution…Cox was fanatical about fundamentals…He drilled them into you at he A level, so he had no patience when you ran into him later….

By: Bo knows

Bo knows — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:37:50 +0000

Pat M
Agree with you on Gardner. I was surprised how much his swing improved in such a short time. I have high hopes for the kid this year. Mmmm defense. For all the ones that have gone before, my favorite quote. “Two thirds of the world is covered by water, the other third by Mathews”.

By: pat

pat — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:35:51 +0000

Pat M

Building is still there but it’s an A&P now. I live just a few miles away. When were you last in Bronxville? No more Town Tavern but everything else about the same.

By: DT

DT — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:35:36 +0000

Don’t upset the peanuts.

Mr. Peanut has a brain. A big head too. Not as big as Mr. Met or Michael Kay, but nothing to sneeze at.

With that monocle, cane and top hat he’s a regular chick magnet.