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08-11-2021, 01:16 PM
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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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08-11-2021, 02:34 PM
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I think the year that we got our TV was 1958 so I imagine my Dad did get to see all that. I can understand why he identified with Nellie Fox in that my Dad was a little guy too, but a little giant. His job was far more difficult physically than anything I was ever involved in. Drilling rigs in those days, maybe still, ran around the clock in 3 shifts like a factory or a hospital, but the crazy thing was that they operated 7 days a week until they either brought in a well or they gave up and declared it a dry hole. My work compared to that was child's play. The only thing that I did that was difficult was one helluva lot of driving. After I retired it almost took its toll on me in that I developed skin cancer in my left sideburn which totally makes sense when you think of where the steering mechanism on a car is. I was constantly being exposed to the sun and dummy that I am never thought about sun screen, but a Doc that specialized in that sort of thing was able to scoop it out and no problems since.
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08-12-2021, 09:02 AM
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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. 
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The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears – Arabian Proverb Last edited by DonGuido : 08-12-2021 at 09:31 AM.
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08-12-2021, 09:55 AM
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An added note . . . the corn field (or fence) looks awfully short/close to me. I'm betting 10 dingers+. Whose over or under on this???
 Well maybe not, just looked it up. 335 downs the lines 380 power allies and 400 deep center. Not bad.
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08-12-2021, 10:18 AM
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I'll take the under.
If they were playing on the field that was the original set for the movie, even pop flies would end up in the cornfield. That would give an entirely new meaning to the term "can of corn"  But an entirely new field has been constructed for this game, located just to the north of the original site. Its dimentions meet current MLB standards and are supposed to be reminiscent to the old Comiskey Park, where the White Sox used to play. Here's is a link to an article in the Des Moines Register that has lots of photos of the new field and info on the game. You may need to scrool down through all of the photo displays in the article. It may be hokey but should still be fun, especially for old time baseball fans [if you remember Johnny Logan as one of the Braves of the 50's who made the move from Boston to Milwaukee, you qualify] https://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...ox/5557003001/
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#6
08-13-2021, 10:50 AM
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That ball game was extremely entertaining from the opening intro, to the film clips breaks to very exciting ball game . . . thinking the Yankees were done but "it's not over 'till it's over" but wait another dinger by the Sox . . . a walk off to win the game. It was like Kevin Costner wrote the script and it was really a movie.
What a show and what a ballgame!!! And maybe we saw what Heaven might be like!!! JB, not sure how many 4 baggers were hit but I bet I was very close to 10.
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The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears – Arabian Proverb
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08-13-2021, 11:19 AM
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Quite a game. They will be talking about it in Dyersville for decades to come.
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