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Another case of no-coffee user error. Tried to put Del Ennis in the Pirates box by accident. The empty Pirates/All-Star box is supposed to be Smokey Burgess and I was really pleased with myself before screwing it up.
Shoutouts to Pat Burrell, Manny Trillo, Pop Schriver, Cesar Cedeño, J.R. Richard, and Carlos Ruiz (a.k.a. “Chooooooooch!!!!!!!!!!!”).
Hey @loftypursuits ! Thought you’d enjoy this.
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Marshmellow has lost interest in the game.
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️ Immaculate Grid 679 9/9:
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Quick grid today, but it came together nicely.
Surprised and delighted that Eddie Cicotte is up at 10%—that’s a lot of people watching Eight Men Out. I wonder what Wilbur Wood or LaMarr Hoyt scored.
Shoutouts to Mike Flanagan, Mike Torrez, Mike Cuellar, Mike Boddicker, Dennis Martinez, Steve Stone, Scott McGregor, and, oh yeah, Jim Palmer!
Enjoy your Sunday!
It’s Holman Stadium at Dodgertown in Vero Beach. This is looking along the third base line. The hill and palm trees are in play. By the 1980s, the turf ran seamlessly up the hill and the trees had white lines painted on them to show home run height.
Also, notice the “dugout” at this point is literally just a hole in the ground with a bench and nothing in the way of protection for the players.
Still looking for a photo of the weird OF, but I’d forgotten about the crazy open-air dugouts.
I need to check my archives. 1983 might have been the year my dad drove us down to see a spring training game at Dodgertown in Vero Beach. We lived about a 90 minute drive north of there.
Such a weird field at the time. The outfield had a hill instead of a wall and palm trees with white lines painted on them to show where a HR should be.
I’ll see if I can find a photo.
Sitting on the porch, trapped under Marshmellow. Happy #caturday !
I used to, but then they took the mirrors down.
While Aurelio Lopez is “Señor Smoke” I always think Luis Tiant should have had that nickname, given his fondness for cigars.
️ Immaculate Grid 678 9/9:
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Fun names and nicknames today.
I feel like a bit of a cheat for using Blue Moon’s combined no-hitter. Wish Oil Can Boyd had thrown one. Noodles Hahn & Dazzy Vance fit there too.
Outside USA features Big Sexy & El Presidente!
On no hitters, could have gone with Sad Sam Jones and “Toothpick” Sam Jones.
Shoutout to Dock Ellis & Rick Wise.
Happy Saturday!
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Billy,
Bernie,
Matt, and
Ken.
Williams.
That’s kind of fun. I checked, but Woody Williams maxed at 3.1 WAR for Toronto. Lloyd Moseby is cooler anyway.
Tried to use some different guys, so Dirt Tidrow and Otto Velez instead of Bobo Newsome and Dave Collins.
AZ is hard for me. Glad to remember Miller so I didn’t use Mark Grace. But Felipe Lopez again.
Russell Branyon! Damn that’s good.
Cool grid. We both had Lolich and Lynn, but in different spots; and we both had Kingman. Ruppert Jones is really good.
It was a fun grid day, even with a lot of familiar names.
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Speed ran today’s grid mostly because it was practically designed to use a bunch of my favorites. Actually okay with it today.
Dave Kingman & Gorman Thomas? Solid!
Mickey Lolich & Frank Tanana? Excellent!
Really a pleasing group of players. And really, how do you not use Fred Lynn today?
Well, Martin Dihigo, Cool Papa Bell, and Monte Irvin certainly jumped out at me.
Now I’m going to go searching for info about the ones I don’t recognize. Thank you for this!
“They hate us for our freedom.”
—some idiot 30 years from now
