Coolest home run ever hit-Done By a Pirate!
Hardball Times has this article on cool HRs. The article says:
Actually, this is as good a place as any to commemorate the coolest home run ever hit. On July 25, 1956, a 21-year-old Roberto Clemente blasted an inside the park, walk-off grand slam to give the Pirates a 9-8 win over the Cubs. That might be the only such shot in MLB history. Coooool.
I never heard of this until now, but it is amazing! I would love if there was film/video of this some where.
Also interesting is the Bucs blew a 4 run lead giving up 7 runs in the 8th. They were down 8-5 in the bottom of the 9th. It looks like they loaded the bases with no outs, then "The Great One" lowered the boom.
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Notice how they quote Roberto? That would not be done these days.
170 ABs without a walk?
And no power? (His manager says, “We had some power coming up behind him,” so obviously he doesn’t think RC has much.) So he’s hitting .300, big deal. It’s a mighty hollow average. Clearly he won’t be able to sustain that if he doesn’t develop some plate discipline. I predict the kid will be out of baseball by the time he’s 24. I don’t care HOW good his arm is.
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the last time I saw writing like that was a headline in SI on a story about Luis Tiant: El Tiante makes his peetch.
I work as a sports copy editor, so I’m alert to grammar in quotes that might make an athlete look dumb, especially if the athlete is from a non-English-speaking country soccer players, mainly). But it’s a fine line I walk, altering quotes. I have to weigh the relevance of allowing a player to sound uneducated or ethnic. You put your credibility on the line if people can watch or listen to a subject being interviewed and know his English is fractured, and then they read quotes in the paper and the guy is speaking the King’s English.
I don’t know that the writers of the ‘50s were deliberately trying to make fun of Roberto. Most of the them are gone, so we can’t ask. To play the Devil’s advocate a little though, that was a time when black and Latin players were just beginning to show up in any numbers in MLB, and I’m pretty certain most of the beat writers of the day (who certainly were overwhelmingly white) had probably never encountered many blacks from anywhere, much less island blacks who spoke mostly Spanish and struggled with English. It was a strange new world they were dealing with. They may have just thought it made their copy more colorful to quote these players exactly (as they had been doing with rural white guys — think of Dizzy Dean — and people like Berra and Stengle, whose pronouncements were sometimes indecipherable).
I’d just be really careful tossing around terms like “racism” without knowing what was in a guy’s heart.
Washington Senators
The Senators have come along way. From last place (1956) to the World Series (2010)!
Actually, that Senators team became the Twins.
The 1961 expansion Senators became the Rangers.
by MarkInDallas on Oct 25, 2010 2:02 AM EDT up reply actions
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Did you check out the rest of the newspaper? There is an article about Joe Paterno’s 100th win.
Seriously, I love Roberto’s quotes after the game. His hustle and speed put all kinds of pressure on the other team.

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