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No wonder they were such good hitters lol
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I would love to see some footage of that guy on the mound.
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Too bad him and Julio Franco weren't in the same era...
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Not mentioned in this tweet (but part of the historical story) - Rice paid the hospital bill on top of it.
Players were getting better money in those days but nothing like today... A quick check shows him just under $780k for that year.
Surgery and a week long hospital stay could eat up a good chunk of that year's salary...
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How many of you were around to watch Honus Wagner? What was his game like?
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He fielded liners with his chest.
With his chest.
Once tagged out Ty Cobb, knocking him out cold. That was 114 years ago.
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They used different infield dirt in those days. That said, he'd be even better with todays equipment/landscape advancements.
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@CATS44 we know you got to see every player since you got to watch Cy Young when he was a rookie lol
Did not get to see CY when he was a rookie. The trip from Massillon to Cleveland was over a day long in Dads wagon.
Saw him once at some sort of community picnic in Newcomerstown not long after his career. Dad took the Model T down there to pick up wool from a woolen mill for Mom, who made braided rugs, and we stopped in to eat.
They had a ballgame between Newcomerstown and Coshocton. CY pitched for Newcomerstown. It was no contest.
What I remember most was how BIG he was. He was huge, the size of many pitchers today...6-2, 220.
In comparison, Stan Covaleski, star of the 1920 World Series, was known as the Big Polock. He was 5-11, 165....and that was more than 30 years after CY began.
Saw him once at some sort of community picnic in Newcomerstown not long after his career. Dad took the Model T down there to pick up wool from a woolen mill for Mom, who made braided rugs, and we stopped in to eat.
They had a ballgame between Newcomerstown and Coshocton. CY pitched for Newcomerstown. It was no contest.
What I remember most was how BIG he was. He was huge, the size of many pitchers today...6-2, 220.
In comparison, Stan Covaleski, star of the 1920 World Series, was known as the Big Polock. He was 5-11, 165....and that was more than 30 years after CY began.