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Originally Posted by JolyB
If your Dad loved the White Sox around the 50's I can understand why Nellie Fox was his favorite player. He was the face of the Sox for many years, always with a very large wad of chewing tobacco in his cheek. He was not very tall or very powerful or very fast, but he was able to get the maximum out of his abilities by hustle and determination. Never seemed to commit an error. Nellie used a bat with a very broad handle and choked up, so he was impossible to strike out and always seems to be the one to get a key single. He and his shortstop teammate Luis Aparicio put the "go" in the "go-go Sox" pennant winner of 1959 to break the Yankee string of pennants. They are both now in the Hall of Fame
Left us much too soon due to cancer.
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Yes JB I'll watch some of the game just because of the unique location, love the movie. I played ball all my life growing (2 yrs of college ball as a "little guy too) I loved it more than my luggage. I also coached youth ball for over 20 years. All that said I rarely watch MLB any more. I'll watch college games and love the CWS. And since we are close to the same vintage I was an avid Yankee fan growing up in upstate. There were too many Bronx Bomber greats during the 50's and early 60's to list but I did like many others on other teams like: Ernie Banks, Willie Mays, and one not as notable by the name of Johnny Logan (Braves). He was a casual friend of my father having met on the golf course when he was in the Navy. I had his autograph on a baseball but of course have no idea where it disappeared to.
Today's players are almost robotic physical specimens stronger in one arm than the hard drinking, gambling, chain smoking, tabacco chewing, carousing players I mentioned earlier. Home runs are a dime a dozen anymore and small ball has gone by the wayside. Pitchers are 6-6 or more and seem to have bionic arms. Truly the great MLB gone-by era will be no more.
Then there's Clemson Tiger football in a little over three weeks.
