Random Baseball Posts

[Arlington]

On 11/24/2025 at 10:12 PM, papalawrence said:

PSA 10 Topps Jack Morris rookie card sold for $1,244. Only 52 lower than his career whip

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ANsTPJb3G/

It was bought by Mickey Mahler.

[papalawrence]

Some pitching ninja love for Wayne State

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CcE7tEr7f/

[papalawrence]

Dan Litwhiler. I'd never heard of him. Nice tribute 

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1C7doJyeB3/

[tiger2022]

Barry Bonds hit 762 home run

His father Bobby Bonds, hit 332 home runs

His cousin, Reggie Jackson, hit 563 home runs

His godfather, Willie Mays, hit 660 home runs

 

 

[Sports_Freak]

Pretty cool story;

 

[papalawrence]

I learned something new about 1972

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1B3SRm2Fm7/

[Tiger337]

8 hours ago, papalawrence said:

I learned something new about 1972

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1B3SRm2Fm7/

It's hard to believe that was over 50 years ago.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET197208131.shtml

[chasfh]

On 1/27/2026 at 9:11 AM, Tiger337 said:

It's hard to believe that was over 50 years ago.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET197208131.shtml

Only Cash (leadoff) and Brinkman (cleanup) did not bat in those spots in any other game that season. All the other players had at least one other game in their slots.

[Tiger337]

7 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Only Cash (leadoff) and Brinkman (cleanup) did not bat in those spots in any other game that season. All the other players had at least one other game in their slots.

which means it was almost cetainly not random.  I wonder if putting Brinkman clean-up was really directed towards Cash?

I vaguely remember being a bit disappointed that the line-up had not changed that much.  I was only 9, so I didn't understand random samples, but when I heard he picked the line-up out of a had, I was expecting something more bizzare.

Edited Wednesday at 02:00 PM by Tiger337

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

which means it was almost cetainly not random.  I wonder if putting Brinkman clean-up was really directed towards Cash?

I vaguely remember being a bit disappointed that the line-up had not changed that much.  I was only 9, so I didn't understand random samples, but when I heard he picked the line-up out of a had, I was expecting something more bizzare.

Mid Summer Sunday day game, Billy was probably too hung over to care what he was doing.

Edited Wednesday at 04:01 PM by gehringer_2

[Stormin]

The day the Tigers attacked the White Sox for wearing the ugliest uniforms in the history of baseball.

 

[IdahoBert]

On 1/26/2026 at 9:21 PM, papalawrence said:

I learned something new about 1972

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1B3SRm2Fm7/

That is pretty awesome

[Sports_Freak]

9 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Mid Summer Sunday day game, Billy was probably too hung over to care what he was doing.

My foggy memory is that the Tigers were in a slump and he wanted to shake things up. Analytics...out the window...lol

[Sports_Freak]

2 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

That is pretty awesome

I couldn't read it. No Facebook account. 😒

[Sports_Freak]

9 hours ago, Stormin said:

The day the Tigers attacked the White Sox for wearing the ugliest uniforms in the history of baseball.

 

The announcer doesn't know a very important fact. Farmer broke Al Cowens face with a HBP in the year before. Cowens was just waiting his chance to kick his as*.

[IdahoBert]

8 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

I couldn't read it. No Facebook account. 😒

It’s about how in 1972 when the team was slumping terribly Billy Martin just threw the names of all the starters into a hat and randomly drew them out and batted Norm cash in leadoff and Ed Brinkman in cleanup and it worked. 

[chasfh]

9 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

The announcer doesn't know a very important fact. Farmer broke Al Cowens face with a HBP in the year before. Cowens was just waiting his chance to kick his as*.

I remember the Free Press running a picture Cowens and Farmer standing at home plate st Tiger Stadium shaking hands, in a show of burying the hatchet I guess, and they looked for all the world like they still wanted to kill each other.

[Tiger337]

Never should have traded Thompson for Cowens.  

[Sports_Freak]

14 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Never should have traded Thompson for Cowens.  

I used to love to hear George Kell pronounce Jason Thompson in his Arkansas drawl.

[chasfh]

Just saw that Al Cowens died an early death, age 50, from a heart attack. I could see him having the stress of being angry all the time. That takes a toll on your body.

[Stormin]

Detroit Caesars Softball, which was owned by Mike Ilitch. Norm Cash (front row, second from right) and Jim Northrup (third row, far left) were members of the team.

[NorthWoods]

6 hours ago, Stormin said:

Detroit Caesars Softball, which was owned by Mike Ilitch. Norm Cash (front row, second from right) and Jim Northrup (third row, far left) were members of the team.

Reading about these softball teams was the 1st time I heard of Mike Illitch.

[chasfh]

The Caesars used to play their home games in a park in East Detroit. I think it was called Memorial Park? It’s was also the first time I had ever heard the Queen song “We Will Rock You” in a sports context. Or maybe it was “We Are The Champions”? One or the other—the songs are connected and were only months old at the time. They played it after hitting a home run, which was, like, a dozen times a game. I also remember a home run hitter they had on the team named, I believe, Rick Trudeau? I can’t believe I remember so much stuff about them since it’s pushing a half century ago.

[chasfh]

Going down a bit of a rabbit hole, I found this championship game on YouTube, to give you a taste of what it looked like:

 

[casimir]

On 1/28/2026 at 11:21 AM, Stormin said:

The day the Tigers attacked the White Sox for wearing the ugliest uniforms in the history of baseball.

 

Those kids behind the dugouts surely got a vocabulary lesson that night.