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Thank you for that, Yakyu. I almost felt like leaving, mid-game, but wanted to stay to see what happened with the t-shirt.
Normally I wouldn’t have an interest in a team from TN, but Dave Stewart has a role with the ownership group. He’s a solid guy, probably with the most experience of anyone across all levels of a baseball organization.
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Family stuff tonight… Looks like I will be posting next #1947League game tomorrow. Stay tuned!
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In the meantime…
https://youtu.be/YJkPqVDOGuk?si=dzW3wkuGxu7qUC1F
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Juan Marichal averaged only 3 hit batters a season.
Randy Johnson plunked an average of 11 per season. His early lack of control didn’t hurt his chances to intimidate for a whole career.
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I read an interview once where Gibson pointed out that the whole “look how mean he is, he just hates people” legend somehow never attached itself to similarly intense WHITE pitchers who played the same kinds of mental intimidation games… and hit many more batters.
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It’d be smarter to teach every young pitcher who catches crap for not being a headhunter about the career line of Sandy Koufax. 18 HBP. Total. Sandy wasn’t intimidated by a hitter.
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Tangent: Sandy refused to plunk Juan Marichal in the infamous Roseboro game.
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There is a great (fairly short) video about this incident and their reconciliation. I will track it down.
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Here is that superb video about the toxic brawl ignited by John #Roseboro and Juan #Marichal (make no mistake, they collaborated on it) … and also about the inspiring story of their reconciliation.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RMC83SnZGk&t=1186s