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Literary blasts from the past: Jimmy Piersall, Larry Doby

June 23, 2011

Welcome to a new feature celebrating some of the great moments in the game. On this date in 1963, Jimmy Piersall, then a member of the Mets,  hit his 100th home run and marked the occasion by running the bases backwards. You’d think his manager, Casey Stengel, would appreciate the creativity, but apparently he did […]

Tagged as: Jim Piersall, Larry Doby

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Literary birthday greetings: Catching up

November 16, 2010 · 2 comments

I have been remiss. Recent notable birthdays include Nov. 13: Mel Stottlemyre, 1941 (Pride and Pinstripes: The Yankees, Mets, and Surviving Life’s Challenges) Johnny Kling, 1875) (Johnny Kling: A Baseball Biography) Nov. 14: Jim Piersall, 1929 (Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story, plus the movie version starring the badly miscast Anthony Perkins, Fear Strikes […]

Tagged as: Anthony Hopkins, Dwight Gooden, Glenn Burke, Jim Piersall, Johnny Kling, Mel Stottlemyre

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