Yeah, Mississippi St. has these caps. And they won, so obviously they work. (They play Indiana tonight at 8pm EDT on ESPN2.)
And if you need an afternoon baseball fix - and have access to TV/internet/apps - Oregon St (#3 in the nation) is playing Louisville in an elimination game. 1st pitch set for about 2:10 CDT.
57% Yes
43% No
Sports Illustrated for Kids, June 2013
Mike Minor’s ERA going into the game on June 9, 2013
Home - 2.52
Away - 2.52
Day - 2.52
Night - 2.52
Career vs. Dodgers - 2.52
Thanks to Vin Scully on KLAC radio.
June 1, 1925: Walter Johnson & the Senators won 5-3 over the Yankees, with “The Big Train” moving to 8-2 on the season.
In other news from that game, a young Lou Gehrig pinch hit & would then go on to start at 1B the next day. For the next 14 years he never sat out a game.
Probably one of my Top 10 favorite MLB photos of all-time.
August 22nd, 1965 - LA Dodgers Sandy Koufax winds up during a game vs. the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park.
© NEIL LEIFER, 1965
Game on! The Pirates all decided to wear Penguins gear during their upcoming road trip to show support for their Pittsburgh brethren in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. That wasn’t enough for Brandon Inge, who came to the ballpark in full Mario Lemieux regalia, including pads, a helmet, and roller blades, making this the best rollerblade-wearing decision anyone has made in at least a decade. If Inge had more advance notice and a few more hair follicles, I’m sure he would have produced a glorious mullet to tie the whole ensemble together. The picture is a little blurry, so it’s hard to tell if method actor Inge retained all his teeth for the stunt.
(via Deadspin)
In honor of the dearly departed Dr. Joyce Brothers, here’s the baseball bloopers scene from “The Naked Gun” - you can see her left shoulder and part of her hair next to Dick Enberg.
| — | Dennis Eckersley did not take kindly to Jack Morris accusing Clay Buchholz of throwing spitballs. |
Front page of the Chicago Tribune’s sports section
via @GGPolitics
I know it’s more than baseball, but I don’t think it matters much.
“If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.”
“The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.”
“At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else.”
“We ask for nothing special. We ask only to be permitted to live as you live, and as our nation’s constitution provides.”
“Money is America’s god and businesspeople can dig black power if it coincides with green power.”
“How much more effective our demands for a piece of the action would be if we were negotiating from the strength or our own self-reliance rather than stating our case in the role of beggar or someone crying out for charity.”
“Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.”
“I remember even as a small boy, having a lot of pride in my mother. I thought she must have had some kid of magic to be able to do all the things she did, to work so hard and never complain and to make us all feel happy. We had our family squabbles and spats, but we were a well-knit unit.”
“It hadn’t been easy. Some of my own teammates refused to accept me because I was black. I had been forced to live with snubs and rebuffs and rejections.”
“[On Branch Rickey] In a way I feel I was the son he had lost and he was the father I had lost.”
“I don’t owe any living person my soul, my integrity, my freedom of thought and speech.”
“I’m not buying anti-white attitudes. Too many people who are not black have proven to me that being real isn’t qualified by skin color but by character.”
