The North Pole ✝️🇺🇲🇵🇭🏴‍☠️⚾️

Dad of two+4. Husband. Coach. Player. Guru-All things baseball. Historian/Patriot/pirate & Dobie Dad @Dodgers @Raiders @Lakers @LAKings @USC #DnD #Kindness 🌊

[The North Pole ✝️🇺🇲🇵🇭🏴‍☠️⚾️ @BaseballGuru42]

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!!
These are my two reasons to celebrate! 👇🏾
#FathersDay #dadlife #girldad 🇵🇭🇺🇲

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"As long as I could pitch a little, no one cared that I was getting drunk."
Don Newcombe was one of the first public figures to talk about addiction.....
Before Betty Ford, before other prominent people.
First pitcher to win Rookie of the Year, the Most Valuable Player and the Cy Young Award during his career.
First black pitcher to start a World Series game.
First pitcher to win the NL MVP AND a Cy Young in the same season in 1956.
Don Newcombe outside his home after learning he had been named the winner of the Cy Young.
Don Newcombe, Alcoholic.
Also there for Maury Wills when his life was crumbling, and for Lou Johnson, the heart of the 1965-1966 team who came to the Dodgers for help, and for Bob Welsh, who was having blackouts at 23 years old.
Newk just said:
“We’ve been waiting for you.”
LEGEND!!!!

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

All baseballs are hand-stitched. No one has been able to successfully develop a machine that can stitch baseballs as of yet.

Which is crazy because the average lifespan of a Major League Baseball is surprisingly short, lasting only about 5 to 8 pitches, with some recent data suggesting even fewer, around 2.5 to 3 pitches,

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

You can tell how much pain Mickey Mantle was in when he hit his 500th HR. He could barely make it around the bases, and this is from a player who basically was the fastest to 1b out of the box

[OldTimeHardball @OleTimeHardball]

Dwight Gooden’s curve baffled some of the game’s best hitters

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Shoeless Joe Jackson. Year is 1932 and Jackson was playing for the Greenville Spinner Textile league team. He was 45 years old.

[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ @baseballhall]

The @Yankees retired Babe Ruth’s No. 3 on this date in 1948 in what would be his final appearance at Yankee Stadium.

The jersey he wore during that ceremony is now part of one of the Museum’s most iconic exhibits. https://t.co/Spa7LEnj6E

[FunBaseballFacts @FunBaseballFact]

Today in 1973: Ron Cey (3B), Bill Russell (SS), Davey Lopes (2B) and Steve Garvey (1B) played their first game together as the Dodgers infield.

They would set an MLB record for longevity for playing together for 8 1/2 seasons until the end of 1981.

Three of them came to the Dodgers playing a different position: Garvey came as a 3rd baseman; Russell and Lopes were both outfielders.
#MLB #baseball #Dodgers

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"Players loved Don Drysdale because wherever he would go there would be fun, guaranteed!!
But, when Don stepped on the field, he was totally different person.
He was a tremendous competitor who would not mind at all, trying to frighten the hitter."
Vin Scully.
"What Sal Maglie always told me about the knockdown pitch was:
‘It’s not the first one, it’s the second one.’
The second one makes the hitter know you meant the first one.
And if you’ve got control, you can waste a pitch to put a little fear in the hitter."
Don Drysdale.
"Don Drysdale never missed a start, going out there every fourth day.
And as a hitter, you better mind your P’s and Q’s when facing him or else he’s going to knock you on your ass.
Mickey Mantle had the best line when talking about "Big D" saying:
‘You better hit him before he hits you.’"
Hawk Harrelson.
"The Drysdale Snarl."
"Once a Bum, Always a Dodger."

[Baseball In Pics @baseballinpix]

Sandy Koufax and Bob Gibson, 1960s. Between them: five Cy Young Awards, three MVPs, and two of the lowest ERAs in modern baseball history.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Stunning picture of Mickey Mantle when he was a rookie

[The North Pole ✝️🇺🇲🇵🇭🏴‍☠️⚾️ @BaseballGuru42]

@JoeFree76 @OleTimeHardball You make a great point.

[Baseball In Pics @baseballinpix]

Rookie Johnny Bench, 1968. He won a gold glove and rookie of the year after hitting .275 with 15 home runs.

[Bill Nelson @Thelscwxman]

Mike spent 8 years with the @Athletics before finishing off his career with 2 seasons with the @Dodgers. He was the batter who walked for the Dodgers in Game 1 of the ‘88 World Series ahead of Kirk Gibson’s game winning home run. Mike Davis turns 67 today.

[Baseball by BSmile @BSmile]

Fun Fact: There were 7 players who wore #3 in a game for the New York #Yankees after Babe Ruth! (Before it was retired in June 1948) They are: George Selkirk, Bud Metheny, Eddie Bockman, Roy Weatherly, Allie Clark, Frank Colman & Cliff Mapes! #MLB #Baseball #History #RepBX

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Awesome shot of Great American Ballpark

[JVAN @VanderlansJim]

June 11, 1972 - Manny Mota hit a 2-run inside-the-park HR and Willie Davis adds a solo inside-the-park HR for the #Dodgers, while Roberto Clemente drives in 3 runs for the #Pirates, in Pittsburgh's 7-5 victory over Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium.
#MLB #OTD #1970s

[FunBaseballFacts @FunBaseballFact]

Today in 1990: Nolan Ryan became the only pitcher in major league history to throw a no-hitter in three different decades.

He tossed his sixth career no-hitter as a member of the Texas Rangers against the A's. He'd throw number seven in 1991.
#MLB #baseball #Rangers

[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ @baseballhall]

Roger Bresnahan played all nine positions during his 17-year career, but his biggest impact came behind the plate.

The Dead Ball Era catcher, born #OTD in 1879, pioneered the use of shin guards and caught all three of Christy Mathewson’s shutouts in the 1905 World Series.

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"Ernie Banks never complained about his team's bad luck or bad talent, never stopped playing the game for joy, never stopped giving his all, never lost his proud demeanour, never acted like anything but a winner.
He was a symbol of Cubs' fans undiminished resilience."
Joe Mantegna.
"Mr. Wrigley believed in this:
Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket.
They don't do that today.
This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking
about.
He carried it on to his business.
Do one thing and stay with it."
Ernie Banks in his office.

[Baseball In Pics @baseballinpix]

Jimmie Foxx, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, and Bill Dickey in Fenway dugout, 1937. All four were multi-time All-Stars at that point.