Old-Time Sports

I think I did once. I seem to have a memory of that weird shaped baseball field in my mind but I would have been young enough that I can't be certain.



I remember reading somewhere that either the right or center field fence was 440 feet



I think I can remember some of the lineup from back then off the top of my head, too:



John Roseboro

Gill Hodges

Dick Traczewski

Duke Snyder

Frank Howard

Sandy Koufax

Don Drysdale

Larry Sherry

Don (?) Roebuck

Ron Peranoski

Wally Moon


I distinctly remember Vin Scully's last words on the radio of the final game of the '59 World Series. Larry Sherry had been the hero and whoever it was hit a comebacker (as it was then called) to him and he ran the ball over the first base himself as Scully said "........And I don't blame him."



Strange details you remember as a kid..............................Luca

Jim Gilliam. That's the name I struggled to come up with. I knew there was a special third baseman but couldn't remember. Y'know, that's why you're a sage.

I left out Maury Wills because he didn't come in until '62, after Pee Wee Reese. Who came up with these nicknames? Geez............

Frozen shoulders actually are fairly common. I’ve had one myself and so has my wife. It’s referred to as “adhesive capsulitis” now.

I have a great trivia question for you. Who was the main competitor with Gil Hodges to be the future first baseman for the Dodgers? ..............Luca

Chuck Connors. “The Rifleman” in the old TV series. I should have said while in the minors.

Connors gave up on baseball and went into acting............Luca

These uniforms were among the best ever, but Johnny Unitas as a Charger? I mean that's like seeing Sandy Koufax as a member of the Astros, or Magic Johnson on the Toronto Raptors.

It's just wrong.

Chuck Conners baseball story (some of the exact details may be off);

Conners got thrown out of the first game of a double header for arguing a call in which the home plate umpire was correct.  Conners realized this later, but nonetheless, didn't like the way he had been tossed.  He felt the umpire had shown him up.  So for the 2nd game, the umpires rotated positions and that same umpire was now at 1st base, where Conners was for defense.  In an early inning, there was a close play at 1st, the runner barely beat out the throw & the umpire called him safe.  Conners gets right in the umpires face and with his arms flailing in the air, starts telling the ump "You got that call correct, good job, you are 100% right, you were right last game as well..."  Conners went on and on agreeing with the ump and telling him he made a good call.  However, from the stands, the fans just saw Conners waving his arms around and jawing in the umps face as if he was arguing with him.  The ump was a little stunned, Conners wasn't doing anything wrong, he was just doing it in a way that mislead the fans as to what he was saying.  After a few minutes with a giant smirk on his face, check walked away from the ump back to his defensive position.