@YakyuNightOwl @YusufToropov @ted_duffield @tabletopmania @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

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.

  • Ruth O’Day@chaosfem.twOP
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    @YusufToropov@toot.community @YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world @tabletopmania@mastodon.social @ted_duffield@mastodon.social @Jaden3@mastodon.social @cbtryon@mastodon.world @sendtherunners@mstdn.ca @aurelia@mindly.social @BigEarl@mindly.social @baseball@a.gup.pe @OhhJim@sfba.social @APBAreplay@techhub.social @AlexanderRaine7@mastodon.social @mattmaison@mastodon.world @blackvoices@newsmast.community

    Again, your words are too kind!

    If one is to swing and miss, one can at least do it in style!

    • Yusuf Toropov@toot.community
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      8 months ago

      @RuthODay@chaosfem.tw @YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world @tabletopmania@mastodon.social @ted_duffield@mastodon.social @Jaden3@mastodon.social @cbtryon@mastodon.world @sendtherunners@mstdn.ca @aurelia@mindly.social @BigEarl@mindly.social @baseball@a.gup.pe @OhhJim@sfba.social @APBAreplay@techhub.social @AlexanderRaine7@mastodon.social @mattmaison@mastodon.world @blackvoices@newsmast.community

      Answer to yesterday’s #1947League question.

      This doesn’t so much debunk one man’s speed as shine a light on another man’s (often-overlooked) gift for marketing and narrative. Two geniuses, but the real genius in this particular story is Satchel Paige.

      #baseball

      • Yusuf Toropov@toot.community
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        8 months ago

        @RuthODay@chaosfem.tw @YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world @tabletopmania@mastodon.social @ted_duffield@mastodon.social @cwgrody@mastodon.sdf.org @cbtryon@mastodon.world @sendtherunners@mstdn.ca @aurelia@mindly.social @BigEarl@mindly.social @baseball@a.gup.pe @OhhJim@sfba.social @APBAreplay@techhub.social @AlexanderRaine7@mastodon.social @mattmaison@mastodon.world @blackvoices@newsmast.community

        #BlackHistory Month may be over, but all year long the career if Cool Papa Bell can and should BLOW YOUR DAMN MIND.

        Here’s stuff I found out, via an interview with him I unearthed, that I couldn’t figure out how to shoehorn into a question. Enjoy.

        https://www.americanheritage.com/how-score-first-sacrifice
        #Baseball #History #1947League #nlmb #hof

        We didn't play baseball like they play in the major leagues. We played “tricky baseball” When we played the big- leaguers after the regular season, our pitchers would curve the ball on the 3-2. They'd say, “What, are you trying to make us look bad?” We'd bunt and run and they'd say, “Why are you trying to do that in the first inning?” When we were supposed to bunt, they'd come in and we'd hit away. In a short series we could outguess them. Baseball is a guessing game. The majorleaguers would play for one big inning. They go by “written baseball” But there’s so much “unwritten baseball” When you use it, they say it's unorthodox. In our league if a guy was on first and had a chance to go to third, he'd go just fast enough to make the outfielder throw. That way the batter could take second, you see. We'd go into third standing up so the third baseman couldn't see the throw coming and it might go through him. Jackie Robinson learned that from some old players he saw in the Negro leagues. Sometimes you can teach a guy something and he can do it better than you. I could score from second on a long fly. I've even scored from first on a sacrifice. And I scored from first base on singles lots of times. If the ball isn't hit straight at the outfielder, I'd score. You have to be heads up and watch those things. Or I'd stand back from the plate and chop down on the ball. That's something I learned from the old players. By the time the ball comes down, they can't throw me out.
        ![Iremember one series against Dizzy Dean’s all-stars, about 1937 or '38. We opened in York, Pennsylvania, and in the first inning we got four runs off Diz. I hit, Jerry Benjamin hit, Leonard walked, and Josh Gibson hit the ball over the fence. Next time Gibson hit another four-run homer. The people started booing and Diz went into the outfield for a while. He hated to just take himself out of a game. Satchel Paige was pitching for us, and we beat them 13-0. In New York I got two doubles off Diz in one game. When Gibson came up with me on second, Diz kept telling the outfield, “Get back, get back” Jimmy Ripple was playing center field. He said, “How far do you want me to get back?” But Dizjust said, “Get back, get back” It was a scoreless tie. Gibson hit a fly deep to Ripple. I rounded third and made my turn, and Dick Lundy, who was coaching at third, yelled, “Stop.” But the shortstop was just getting the throw from Ripple, so I started for home. The catcher caught the ball high and I slid in—and the umpire called me out. The umpire said, “Look, you don’t do that against a big-league team—score from second on an outfield fly” So he called me out. I led the Washington Homestead Grays in hitting for three years. In 1944 I hit .407. In 1945 I was sick, I had a stiff arm, I couldn’t throw, I couldn’t run. I hit .308, the lowest I ever hit in my life. In 1946 my arm had loosened up and my legs, and hit .411.
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