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Post by bluehen on Nov 1, 2018 3:26:43 GMT
Another one of those great players from Mobile, Alabama
Willie McCovey,
Satchel Paige Billy Williams Henry Aaron Ozzie Smith
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Post by Hero on Nov 1, 2018 11:41:08 GMT
Sad
RIP
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Post by doc on Nov 1, 2018 13:24:51 GMT
I think the last time I saw him, he was being recognized before a game and was in a wheelchair? Perhaps he had suffered a stroke, if I recall. He didn't need PED's to hit home runs.
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Post by doc on Nov 1, 2018 13:30:49 GMT
I just remembered former Reds pitcher, Gary Nolan, once talked about striking out Willie Mays 4 times in one game so I wondered if McCovey also played in that game and how many times he may have struck him out...here is blurb from a story - Nolan had a total of 15 strikeouts in the game. Quite a game!!
'In his June 7 game, Nolan struck out Mays all four times that Mays batted against him. Nolan caught him looking in the first and Mays went down swinging in the fourth, sixth, and eighth innings. Nolan stuck out Ollie Brown three times, and struck out Wille McCovey, Jim Ray Hart, and Hal Lanier twice.'
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