The Shot Heard Round The World
Submitted by phillybluesfan on Sat, 06/11/2022 - 7:51am
The 1951 National League tie-breaker series will be a best-of-three playoff series that will decide the winner of the National League (NL) pennant.The games will be played on October 1, 2, and 3, 1951, between the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers. This is necessary after both teams finished the season with identical win-loss records of 96-58.
Who will be the hero? Who will be the goat? Who will win the pennant?
The stage is set. Who wants to manage The Giants against my Dodgers? Will I face off against the skills of the Strat-O-Matic computer? Will Andy Pafko find himself standing at the left field wall - helplessly watching the "shot heard round the world" soar over his head again? We'll see.
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50's baseball trivia
Hey PBF, I don't follow sports any more... but... if you are into the 50's baseball... at the risk of outing myself... so please just use initials, not the full name if you know the answer...
There was a famous Brooklyn Dodger, methinks lifetime batting avg. maybe .327, sent up to pinch hit with 2 outs in the 9th, to stop Don Larsen from throwing the first ever perfect no hitter in a World Series. He was called out on strikes in what became a very controversial call. The ump said he broke wrists, strike. He said he checked his swing and did not break wrists. He maintained that into old age. I watched the footage many times, and would say he broke his wrists, the ump made the right call. That happened a few weeks before I was born, and is who I was named after. The dude that struck out.
ROFLMAO! If you know the answer, please initials only.
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@dystopian no clue. Great Story.
no clue. Great Story. Please, enlighten me.
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I had to look it up
I had the last name right, not the first. I thought it was "Bobby" but then thought "no, that's a football player".
Ah, Strat-o-matic! I'm an Angels fan so I was traumatized by 1986. In 1987 a group of us each took a team and played a 60 game schedule with the cards based on that 1986 season. Not too surprisingly it came down to an Angels-Red Sox championship series. This time the Angels came out on top....as they should have in real life!!!!
@Shahryar I owned the board game
I owned the board game back in the 6os. No idea what happened to it. Bought a new version, will every HOF player card last year. Since then I bought the computer version. I play in a 6 member draft league with folks from Idaho, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Recently I purchase CAREER HISTORICAL ROSTER that gives me every single player who appeared in a least 10 games since 1870. A fantasy replay dream. Preparing to play one franchise's all-time greats against the others. Bread and circuses I know. But news and politics are so depressing right now.
Few are guilty, but all are responsible.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets
correction...
I got a couple things wrong... the famous strike out was in '56. I was named after the dude the year before, when he was still just famous for being a great hitter/player. As a kid, the only that knew of him, knew because of that most famous strikeout, not the .300+ lifetime batting average.
Here is the strikeout footage, the alleged check-swing. which was not IMHO, those wrists broke. There is other better footage... and some decades after, an interview with him in later years in which he defended his checked swing as not breaking wrists. He wouldn't admit it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2g5bfdjYto
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein