The most memorable swing in baseball?
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I do like Make Us Sq"s thought about Mookie - Mets Win!
Understandable about Superwoman's Choice - she is a rabid Yanks Fan! And she is a very pretty Yanks Fan!
CC Sabathia & Ollie Perez are vying for worst "EXPENSIVE" free agent this year. CC can't win in Yankee Stadium (he was awful today) and Ollie is absolutely horrible. That man needs a one way ticket to Buffalo and the Mets Farm System. Somehow, Ollies fast ball is down to 88mph and hitters are sitting on. Then there is his amazing lack of control. What did he do in Spring Training besides going to the World Baseball Classic for Puerto Rico.
Boo Ollie and a bigger boo to Scott Boras who presened phony stats to Met management (who shouldn't have needed them) and got Ollie a contract that has to be the envy of anyone in baseball. Boras makes me sick - what an obnoxious A-Hole. Speaking of A -Holes
- the Yanks desperately need A-Rod back in the lineup.
Go Mets, Chels
Understandable about Superwoman's Choice - she is a rabid Yanks Fan! And she is a very pretty Yanks Fan!
CC Sabathia & Ollie Perez are vying for worst "EXPENSIVE" free agent this year. CC can't win in Yankee Stadium (he was awful today) and Ollie is absolutely horrible. That man needs a one way ticket to Buffalo and the Mets Farm System. Somehow, Ollies fast ball is down to 88mph and hitters are sitting on. Then there is his amazing lack of control. What did he do in Spring Training besides going to the World Baseball Classic for Puerto Rico.
Boo Ollie and a bigger boo to Scott Boras who presened phony stats to Met management (who shouldn't have needed them) and got Ollie a contract that has to be the envy of anyone in baseball. Boras makes me sick - what an obnoxious A-Hole. Speaking of A -Holes
- the Yanks desperately need A-Rod back in the lineup.
Go Mets, Chels
This thread kind of confused me because when I saw the title I thought memorable as far as sweetness of the swing as opposed to specific dramatic swings. So I will do both categories.
I. MEMORABLE DRAMATIC SWINGS
I was not alive when Thompson hit his but in my lifetime the dramatic swings were:
-Aaron #715
- Chambliss HR to win 1976 ALCS
- Reggie's 4th consecutive HR on 4 consecutive swings in last 2 games of 1977 World Series
- George Brett Pine Tar Home Run, 1983
- Joe Carter HR to win 1993 World Series
- Darryl Strawberry HR to beat Red Sox in 1996
- Darryl Strawberry longest HR ever in Camden Yards (also 1996, I think)
- Jeter HR to win game 5 of 2001 World Series
- Aaron Boone HR to win 2003 ALCS
II. MEMORABLE SWEET SWINGS
George Brett, Don Mattingly, Ken Griffey Jr., Robinson Cano
I. MEMORABLE DRAMATIC SWINGS
I was not alive when Thompson hit his but in my lifetime the dramatic swings were:
-Aaron #715
- Chambliss HR to win 1976 ALCS
- Reggie's 4th consecutive HR on 4 consecutive swings in last 2 games of 1977 World Series
- George Brett Pine Tar Home Run, 1983
- Joe Carter HR to win 1993 World Series
- Darryl Strawberry HR to beat Red Sox in 1996
- Darryl Strawberry longest HR ever in Camden Yards (also 1996, I think)
- Jeter HR to win game 5 of 2001 World Series
- Aaron Boone HR to win 2003 ALCS
II. MEMORABLE SWEET SWINGS
George Brett, Don Mattingly, Ken Griffey Jr., Robinson Cano
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three votes for Aaron #715-YES!
MS- the Mookie Wilson game...hmmm well I was 11 years old...I am a little history buff.
I know that he was a switch hitter and he ended up having surgery on one of his arms during his career.... I do not remember if the surgery ended his career?
eros701-Ron Bloomberg-Sorry but...way before I was even born
Was that around the Sandy Koufax days?
Mr.Sammy-Bobby Thomson-I have heard of him and I am very familiar with the famous game-the Staten Island Scot. Do you know why they called it the shot 'heard around the world?
Nychelsea-No apologies needed and YES you need to find a way to make it up to me! Wink...wink!
The Catch-hmmm...lets see that famous “catch” may have happened during the 1954 World Series! (Again I was not even consummated yet!)
How about the most well -known/ famous baseball players ever and to date?
Here is my partial list!
Mickey Mantle-"the fastest man" my father's favorite baseball player!
Babe Ruth
Yogi Berra
Joe DiMaggio
Dave Winfield
Reggie Jackson
Hank Aaron “Hammerin’ Hank”
MS- the Mookie Wilson game...hmmm well I was 11 years old...I am a little history buff.
I know that he was a switch hitter and he ended up having surgery on one of his arms during his career.... I do not remember if the surgery ended his career?
eros701-Ron Bloomberg-Sorry but...way before I was even born
Was that around the Sandy Koufax days?Mr.Sammy-Bobby Thomson-I have heard of him and I am very familiar with the famous game-the Staten Island Scot. Do you know why they called it the shot 'heard around the world?
Nychelsea-No apologies needed and YES you need to find a way to make it up to me! Wink...wink!
The Catch-hmmm...lets see that famous “catch” may have happened during the 1954 World Series! (Again I was not even consummated yet!)
How about the most well -known/ famous baseball players ever and to date?
Here is my partial list!
Mickey Mantle-"the fastest man" my father's favorite baseball player!
Babe Ruth
Yogi Berra
Joe DiMaggio
Dave Winfield
Reggie Jackson
Hank Aaron “Hammerin’ Hank”
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Is it true that SuperrWoman can really Hang-Out ?
Most of my wardrobe is older than you !
Although I can't remember what I had for lunch unless I check the stains on my pants, I well remember that special broadcast. In these days of instant global communications, it seems quaint to realize that American heros stationed in Ramstein, Okinawa, and especially Inchon listened to the game through the miracle of Armed Forces Radio.
Most of my wardrobe is older than you !
Although I can't remember what I had for lunch unless I check the stains on my pants, I well remember that special broadcast. In these days of instant global communications, it seems quaint to realize that American heros stationed in Ramstein, Okinawa, and especially Inchon listened to the game through the miracle of Armed Forces Radio.
In my opinion there is no question that #1 must be the Babe.
His feats on the field were discussed from coast to coast.
Off the field, he was renown for his night-clubbing with perhaps a dozen aspiring Broadway actresses in his company.
During the off-season he went to Hollywood to make movies and satisfy uncountable starlets.
It boggles the imagination to conceive what he might have accomplished had he not wasted so much time playing baseball !
His feats on the field were discussed from coast to coast.
Off the field, he was renown for his night-clubbing with perhaps a dozen aspiring Broadway actresses in his company.
During the off-season he went to Hollywood to make movies and satisfy uncountable starlets.
It boggles the imagination to conceive what he might have accomplished had he not wasted so much time playing baseball !