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CaptYossarian

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11. Actually, I'm only a baseball enthusiast.

Fri Oct 16, 2020, 08:59 PM

Oct 2020

I've been a Cub fan since 1968, when I would come home from second grade and find my mom watching WGN and Jack Brickhouse.

That's how I remember the existence of ex-Cub Pete LaCock. And what young teenage boy would forget a new Topps card with THAT name on it?

Gibson's and Denny McLain's (the last 30-game winner) seasons were so dominant that they had to change the rules. That doesn't happen often for individual players. Eddie Gaedel may have been the previous "player" to have that happen. That could manufacture an entire thread.

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Recalling the great Bob Gibson, the only of the part the plate owned by the batter [View all] kairos12 Oct 2020 OP

The king of the brush-back pitch. CaptYossarian Oct 2020 #1

One player did once, none tried it after what happened to him. nt Blue_true Oct 2020 #5

On Gibson? CaptYossarian Oct 2020 #6

I will look up history, but I believe that Gibson was in an even earlier incident that Ryan. nt Blue_true Oct 2020 #7

A guy named LaCork or something like that. He got beaten up, but not necessarily by Gibson. nt Blue_true Oct 2020 #8

Pete LaCock was a second-string first baseman/outfielder CaptYossarian Oct 2020 #9

Wow, you are a sports encyclopedia. Blue_true Oct 2020 #10

Actually, I'm only a baseball enthusiast. CaptYossarian Oct 2020 #11

RIP Mr. Gibson MakeTXBlue2020 Oct 2020 #2

Loved the Cards in the 60s and 70s oswaldactedalone Oct 2020 #3

1968 was the season of the pitcher, but it wasn't just rsdsharp Oct 2020 #4