APR2011: THE  97th  ARTICLE FOR BASEBALL GURU

ONEMOREINNING

MY MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT: PART TWO

ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT ONE MORE INNING DID WHEN  IT CAME OUT (21 YEARS AG0) WAS TO HAVE A  SECTION  CALLED THE ABOVE:  HERE ARE SOME OF THE ANSWERS FROM  A GROUP OF VARIOUS BALLPLAYERS

MY MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT:

BOB KUZAVA: PITCHING AN ELEVEN INNING THREE HITTER FOR THE YANKEES AND WINNING IT WITH MY THIRD HIT IN THE GAME.

SAL YVARS: BENG THE EIGHTH BLACK TO COME INTO THE MAJOR LEAGUES. I PLAYED FOR THE GIANTS FOR THREE YEARS AND EVEN THOUGH I WAS A BENCH PLAYER IT WAS A BIG THRILL TO BE IN THE MAJORS.

TOMMY BYRNE: COMING BACK TO THE NEW YORK YANKEES FOR THE SECOND TIME AFTER HAVING BEEN EXILED TO THE ST LOUIS BROWNS FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS. THIS TIME AROUND I HAD CURBED MY WILDNESS AND PITCHED EFFECTIVELY FOR THEM. THEY ALSO USED ME A GREAT DEAL AS A PINCH HITTER AND I MANAGED TO WIN THREE GAMES FOR THEM IN THAT ROLE.

ANDY PAFKO: HITTING THREE HOMERS IN A GAME FOUR TIMES IN MY CAREER. IN ONE OF THEM I MISSED A FOURTH HOMERUN BY INCHES.

VIC WERTZ: I HAD SO MANY IT’S HARD TO POINT OUT JUST ONE. ONE MOMENT THAT HAD NOTHING TO WITH A SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT ON MY PART, BUT ONE THAT I’LL REMEMBER FOREVER, WAS WILLY MAYS CATCH OF MY HARD HIT BALL TO THE OUTFIELD. IT WAS THE GREATEST CATCH I’VE EVER

SEEN!

GEORGE SHUBA: SHAKING HANDS WITH JACKIE ROBINSON WHEN HE CROSSED HOMEPLATE WHILE WE BOTH WERE WITH THE MONTREAL TEAM IN THE MINORS. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME ANY WHITE PLAYER HAD GREETED JACKIE LIKE THAT AND THE PHOTO HAS BEEN REPRODUCED QUITE OFTEN. I COUNTED JACKIE AS MY CLOSEST FRIEND WHILE WE WERE WITH THE DODGERS.

SIBBI SISTI: BEING KNOWN AS THE SUPER SUB  AND APPEARING AS THE MANAGER IN ROBERT REDFORDS FILM “THE NATURAL.”

PING BODIE: JUST ROOMING WITH THE BABE EARLY ON IN HIS CAREER……ACTUALLY I DIDN’T REALLY ROOM WITH HIM, I ROOMED WITH HIS SUITCASE!

BOBBY SCHANTZ:BEING IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES.

SID GORDON: BEING ONE OF THE FEW JEWS TO PLAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL.

JOHNNY BLANCHARD: HITTING ALL THOSE HOMERUNS IN 1961.

ROGER REPOZ: GETTING MARRIED AT HOME PLATE BEFORE THE GAME STARTED

MIKE WITT: PITCHING A PERFECT GAME.

TOM TRESH: MY FATHER WAS A MAJOR LEAGUER. STEPPING INTO A MAJOR LEAGUE FIELD FOR THE FIRST TIME AND REALIZING I WAS FOLLOWING IN MY DAD’S FOOTSTEP WAS MY MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT.

JUAN MARICHAL: BEING ELECTED INTO THE HALL OF FAME.

GRAIG NETTLES: WINNING THE AMERICAN LEAGUE HOME RUN CHAMPIONSHIP…….BEING SELECTED TO THE ALL STAR GAME…..HAVING MY FAMILY AT THE GAME THAT I WENT FIVE FOR FIVE.

BOB CERV: BEING A PART OF THE GREATEST TEAM IN THE HISTORY OF THE GAME. COUNTING MANTLE AND BERRA AND ELSTON HOWARD AS CLOSE FRIENDS ON THAT TEAM.

GENE MICHAELS: BECOMING  A YANKEE PLAYER AND THEN BEING PART OF THE FRONT OFFICE AND ALSO GETTING TO WORK WITH GEORGE STEINBRENNER. SAY WHAT YOU WILL ABOUT GEORGE…..NOBODY DID MORE TO HELP HIS TEAM BECOME WINNERS……HE WAS OUTSTANDING AT THAT!!

WILLARD MARSHALL: HITTING A HOME RUN IN MY FIRST TIME AT BAT IN THE MAJORS. ALSO GETTING TO PLAY FOR THE  GREAT MEL OTT WHO WAS THE GIANTS MANAGER AT THE TIME. HE HELPED ME TO GET OVER THE JITTERS WHEN I FIRST CAME UP, AND WORKED WITH ME ON FUNDAMENTALS DURING MY ROOKIE YEAR. HE WAS A GENTLEMAN AND THE PLAYERS LOVED HIM.

MAX LANIER: BEING ALLOWED TO COME BACK TO THE MAJOR LEAGUES AFTER HAVING PLAYED IN MEXICO FOR TWO YEARS. ALSO  COACHING MY SON IN COLLEGE AND SEEING HIM GET TO TRIPLE A UNTIL HE HURT HIMSELF AND HAD TO LEAVE THE GAME.