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at what weight?......sounds like that may be his best sport.....send him to WVU....
....nephew up to 6ft 1 and 190 lbs I think redshirting will help him
at what weight?......sounds like that may be his best sport.....send him to WVU....
74 lbs, and honestly baseball is still his best sport
I thought there are only two positions in baseball.
1. Stand out in the sun and scratch yourself.
2. Sit in the shade and scratch yourself.
1. Stand out in the sun and scratch yourself.
2. Sit in the shade and scratch yourself.
pitcher and shortstop was my thing......I made fun of our catcher one day in practice and the next thing I knew I was behind the plate......I never made fun of our catcher again. Having said that the catcher;s position is one of the easiest avenues to college and the pros....not a lot of real good ones out there
When we were kids ,Catcher could hit...in today's baseball a catcher who hits .260 with 20 homers is a superstar and worth $30 million a year! What would Bench, Sanguien, Fisk make today.
exactly.........same thing the scouts told my nephew at camps this summer......they said a catcher who goes for .250 and 15 homers with a decent throw out percentage can make really good bucks
Reds have been trying to upgrade at catcher for several years...guys that reach the numbers that you just mentioned are like gold, just can't find them and if you find them, can't afford them!
He’s starting to hit from the left side as well at practice. A switch hitting catcher is a rare breed
If financially possible, make payments into insurance for future knee surgery/replacement.
the only major league game I ever saw was there.....against the cardinals. They had both Roger Maris and Orlando Cepeda by then. Their starter that night was Steve Carlton. The reds started an 18 or 19 yr old kid named Gary Nolan who threw in the 90's , which was pretty good for the 1960's. He struck Maris out twice and Maris never got the bat off his shoulder. Cardinals won 4-3 in 12 innings. The old submariner Ted Abernethey walked in the winning run....funny .... I was going thru family pictures the other day an found one of my dad and little brother and me at that game....the nolan kid ended up blowing out his arm after a couple of years...I think he tried to make a comeback as a reliever but don't quote me on that
Gary Nolan pitched well as a starter on the Big Red Machine, Snow. He wasn't as good as Don Gullett a/k/a "the Sheriff" or perhaps, Jack Billingham, but was solid. My first Reds' game was at Riverfront Stadium in 1974, and I attended as many as 20+ Reds' games in a season in the mid-80s.
That would have been a great one to see...I regret I never made it to Crosley as a kid!
I think Gary ended up as blackjack dealer in Vegas! Both he and Gullett blew their arms out at too early an age.
I got to know Don Gullett, Jr. at baseball card shows back in the 1990s, but haven't seen him since. He's a good guy who has the exact same eyes as his father.
when I worked briefly for Jim Walter Homes we had to go by Gullet's house in Kentucky......the front door window was the shape of home plate
Hahahahha, Jim was a legend in the Ashland area, tremendous football and basketball player.
had a friend who was a manager for JWH and I helped him with collections for a while during summer vacation from teaching
All this baseball talk has got me ready for opening day! It be nice to see the Reds be competitive again.
Back in the 60's we had a family friend named Thad Tillotson who pitched for the Yankees for 3 years. He came home for a visit and brought 2 baseballs with him...one for my brother and one for me. The Yankees were bad then in the mid 60's but the balls have the original signatures of Mantle, Berra, Pepitone, Elston Howard, and Whitey Ford. The one I'm really proud of is Al Downing who had given up Hank Aarons 715th. The ink is fading so I have it put away so the light doesn't affect it. It was valued at 3 grand about 10 years ago. Tillotson died in 2010 but his wife wrote letters of authentication for us. I say original signatures because the Yankees were famous then for having their clubhouse guys fake signatures...Tillotson actually took the balls personally to the players for their signatures
Man, that's valuable artifact! Those names take me back, Yanks went downhill fast after the Cards clipped them in the 64 series, really my first memories of watching baseball, thought in was cool that the Boyer brothers were playing against each other. Bob Gibson was in his prime and virtually unhittable.
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