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️ Immaculate Grid 807 9/9:
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Christmas in June!
Gary Matthews—father and son. Double-checked that dad had 100 runs, but it was 1984 and I’m guessing Andre Dawson was having his MVP season behind Senior in the lineup.
Happy to survive the D’backs row thanks to Reds nonsense. Also, entire 2000+ Hits row is old Reds!
Shoutouts: Felipe Lopez, Mike Vail, Larry Biitner, and Hacks Stan & Wilson.
Not a great day for Les Expos.
Philadelphia Phillies beat Montreal Expos (18-3). Jun 2, 2002, Attendance: 19223, Time of Game: 3:18. Visit Baseball-Reference.com for the complete box score, play-by-play, and win probability
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️ Immaculate Grid 806 9/9:
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All Phillies Grid!
7 were Phillies while I was living in Philly. Franco was well before then and Matt Moore was a bit after my time there.
Kevin Stocker was the SS when I moved there and then got traded to Tampa for Bobby Abreu. They both later ended up Angels.
Saw Robert Person get a W and hit 2HR (and just foul of a 3rd), 7 RBI. June 2, 2002 vs. Montreal.
“rarity be damned” Amen!!
“Grover would open it up” made me lol.
@seaks David Wells was my backup plan if I couldn’t find all the Daves I needed.
LaMarr Hoyt! Nice.
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As one does.
️ Immaculate Grid 805 9/9:
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“I’m sorry Dave . . .” An all Dave Grid!
Started with the 300+HR column and they were all obvious. So I kept going!
Second game I went to was a LaPoint shutout for the White Sox. Easy peasy! My Reds foolishness got me Revering and Collins. Righetti came to me because the Yankees were there.
Last two I cheated my butt off. I remember them both vaguely.
Latest read: “The Four Queens of Crime”
A nice little murder mystery set in 1938 in an English country house during a lavish fundraiser. The “hosts” and drawing card for the fundraiser are Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, & Margery Allingham—the four best-selling mystery writers of the 1930s. (Hence the title.)
Have to admit, I cottoned on to whodunit fairly quickly; but it was still a good read. Nice stable of suspects; good humor; maybe a few too many characters.
I had maxed out the 500 open tabs in Safari on my iPhone. So, I went back and closed all the Baseball Reference tabs of random guys I thought were cool.
Now I have 260 open tabs left.
️ Immaculate Grid 803 9/9:
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Didn’t feel like messing around today. Straight up stars. Gaylord & Fergie are screamingly obvious in those two spots and some days you just go with the flow and let Cardinal/All-Star be Ozzie Smith.
A little Reds nonsense with Eric Davis, Jeff Russell, and Johnny Vander Meer (of back-to-back no hitters fame). Mathewson played one game as a Red too.
Cheers!
Yes, yes, his name is Christian Moore. Yes, yes, he’s becoming an Angel. We get it, we get it.
️ Immaculate Grid 802 9/9:
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The Mayor is very popular. Wonder what Sean Casey scored in the Reds/Cleveland box?
Almost went all B&W for the Reds, but was talking about The Mayor yesterday and decided to go newer guys. Good excuse to use Jung Bong.
Firpo & By were on the 1924 Champions.
Alex Carrasquel was Chico’s uncle. Chico’s nephew Cris Colón was also in MLB.
Shoutout Ricky Karcher!
️ Immaculate Grid 801 9/9:
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Huh. Was doing an All-Rookie of the Year Grid, but discovered that no Rookie of the Year winner ever played 2B for the Mets.
Anyway, 8 Rookies of the Year and Joel Youngblood. 6 won it with the Dodgers, Robinson with the Reds, and Gunnar with the Orioles obviously.
Shoutouts: Carlos Baerga, Chris Sabo, Fernando Valenzuela, Steve Sax, and Jackie Robinson.
Tuesdays are book release days!
I always go to James Bond movies on opening day and the same is true for buying books of certain authors.
Today it’s “The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses” by Malka Older (@older ). It’s the third in the Mossa & Pleiti series.
As the author describes it: mystery 
romance 🪐 on Jupiter 
with trains 🫖 and tea 
petty academia 🥟 and lots of snacks
(The new Mary Russell book by Laurie R. King is also out today!) #bookstodon
Given the state of the world, I really need to post more cat photos.
Here’s one of Marshmellow from a couple months ago. Big sleepy boy.
