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Lest We Forget: Carl Erskine, Whitey Herzog, Ken Holtzman

April 16, 2024 · 0 comments

Wow, it’s been a rough few days. First Fritz Peterson, now a trio of notables, for different reasons. I’ve never seen anything like this on the obituary page of The New York Times‘ website:   Carl Erskine, the last of “the boys of summer,” died Tuesday at the age of 97. “Oisk” was a mainstay […]

Tagged as: Carl Erskine, Ken Holtzman, Whitey Herzog

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* Hats off to Andre and Whitey

January 27, 2010

Actually I have a neat little hat rack for most of my baseball caps, but it is lying on top of a bookcase, so I’m gonna count it. When a Hall of Famer plays for a few teams over his career, there’s always hand-wringing over what hat his plaque will bear. Several years ago, there […]

Tagged as: Andre Dawson, Baseball Hall of Fame, Whitey Herzog

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* Baseball in mental floss

October 13, 2008

A national pastime trifecta in the brainy magazine in the November/December issue. At this point, the citations refer to the print version only. Oakland As general manager Billy “Moneyball” Beane is hailed as one of “the new Einsteins” in a featured article. In an item about man’s best friend: “Portuguese water dogs…[have] been living up […]

Tagged as: Albert Einstein, Billy Beane, Bob Barker, mental floss, Oakland As, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Whitey Herzog

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