Baseball Fans - Can you name them?
Oct 18, 2023 12:16:01 #
Oct 18, 2023 12:45:27 #
markngolf wrote:
It's not easy.
Mark
Mark
The first inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Honus Wagner is back row on the left, Babe Ruth is front row second from left.
I can’t name the others.
Oct 18, 2023 12:51:08 #
Mac wrote:
The first inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Honus Wagner is back row on the left, Babe Ruth is front row second from left.
I can’t name the others.
Honus Wagner is back row on the left, Babe Ruth is front row second from left.
I can’t name the others.
Congratulations, Mac!! Correct.
Mark
Oct 18, 2023 15:07:06 #
There were only 5 inductees in the first HOF class: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson. The photo includes some of the first four classes;
Honus Wagner - Pittsburgh Pirates - Elected 1936
Grover Cleveland Alexander - Philadelphia Phillies - Elected 1938
Tris Speaker - Cleveland Indians - Elected 1937
Nap Lajoie - Cleveland Indians - Elected 1937
George Sisler - St. Louis Browns - Elected 1939
Walter Johnson - Washington Senators - Elected 1936
Eddie Collins - Chicago White Sox - Elected 1939
Babe Ruth - New York Yankees - Elected 1936
Connie Mack - Philadelphia Athletics - Elected 1937
Cy Young - Boston Red Sox - Elected 1937
Honus Wagner - Pittsburgh Pirates - Elected 1936
Grover Cleveland Alexander - Philadelphia Phillies - Elected 1938
Tris Speaker - Cleveland Indians - Elected 1937
Nap Lajoie - Cleveland Indians - Elected 1937
George Sisler - St. Louis Browns - Elected 1939
Walter Johnson - Washington Senators - Elected 1936
Eddie Collins - Chicago White Sox - Elected 1939
Babe Ruth - New York Yankees - Elected 1936
Connie Mack - Philadelphia Athletics - Elected 1937
Cy Young - Boston Red Sox - Elected 1937
Oct 18, 2023 15:39:13 #
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Interesting connection: George Sisler's coach at the University of Michigan was Branch Rickey.
Oct 19, 2023 06:04:05 #
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Oct 19, 2023 16:01:09 #
Thanks.
We often forget "those that made baseball a household name".
Those players caught line drives with gloves that we now
use as batting gloves. Early gloves were nothing, but hand
warmers.
We often forget "those that made baseball a household name".
Those players caught line drives with gloves that we now
use as batting gloves. Early gloves were nothing, but hand
warmers.
Oct 19, 2023 16:06:17 #
JBuckley wrote:
Thanks.
We often forget "those that made baseball a household name".
Those players caught line drives with gloves that we now
use as batting gloves. Early gloves were nothing, but hand
warmers.
We often forget "those that made baseball a household name".
Those players caught line drives with gloves that we now
use as batting gloves. Early gloves were nothing, but hand
warmers.
I played with one for softball. Just pieces of stitched leather. When I used it for hardball, I put a handkerchief inside. It still hurt.
Mark
Oct 19, 2023 16:57:25 #
markngolf wrote:
I played with one for softball. Just pieces of stitched leather. When I used it for hardball, I put a handkerchief inside. It still hurt.
Mark
Mark
Thank goodness I'm about a decade younger than you, Mark!! They started making some real gloves by then. I remember how big my first glove was when I first started playing at seven. There wasn't such a thing as kids' gloves.
Oct 20, 2023 07:52:44 #
markngolf wrote:
I played with one for softball. Just pieces of stitched leather. When I used it for hardball, I put a handkerchief inside. It still hurt.
Mark
Mark
“Hardball”! Now there’s a term I haven’t heard in a long time😂 We used it too to refer to baseball, not sure why. “Softballs” aren’t really soft and I wonder if the name came from the way they were usually pitched. Anyway, as baseballs took a beating on the schoolyard blacktop we played on, most of the balls were covered with black tape once the original covers wore off.
Oct 20, 2023 10:01:38 #
Dannj wrote:
“Hardball”! Now there’s a term I haven’t heard in a long time😂 We used it too to refer to baseball, not sure why. “Softballs” aren’t really soft and I wonder if the name came from the way they were usually pitched. Anyway, as baseballs took a beating on the schoolyard blacktop we played on, most of the balls were covered with black tape once the original covers wore off.
Yup!! Same here.
Mark
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