Tom’s Old Days

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[Tom’s Old Days @sigg20]

New Feature
“Fan Favorites”From the Past
#MLB #Orioles #1960s #1970s #Nostalgia

[Maris4HOF @RMaris0961]

Good Morning 🌞☕️. In celebration of the @Yankees clinching a post season spot. We thought this photo was appropriat. Hope everyone has a great day out there. ⚾️ #Maris4HOF #Yankees #postseason #mlb

[Hoyt Wilhelm Fan Page @wilhelm_hoyt]

Arrived!!! Thank you @popflypopshop for creating this incredible piece of art! The 6-7 year wait was worth it to bring this to life!

[James michael🇮🇪🇺🇲🇮🇪🇺🇲⚡⚡ @Jamesyankee]

70s Yankees

[James michael🇮🇪🇺🇲🇮🇪🇺🇲⚡⚡ @Jamesyankee]

#6....Roywhite

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"I thought I was pretty hot stuff."
Wilt Chamberlain.
In 1954 before his senior year of high school, Wilt Chamberlain worked as a bellhop at "Kutsher’s Country Club", a Jewish resort in the Catskill Mountains.
By day he was making $2 an hour, getting great tips from the awestruck guests as he lifted their luggage through a second floor window while standing outside on the ground.
At night Wilt played on the Kutsher’s basketball team, coached hard by the resort’s, "Athletic Director", Red Auerbach.

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"For a guy who spent most of his career as a first base man and never really had anything to do with pitching, Gil Hodges showed a greater understanding of pitchers than any manager I've ever worked under." Ron Kline.

[JVAN @VanderlansJim]

Remembering Roberto Clemente ...

"Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania" - Vin Scully
#MLB #HOF #Pittsburgh #Pirates #ClementeDay

[Maris4HOF @RMaris0961]

Yank Timber Line. Bronx, New York: Happy Whitey Ford, who won his 23rd game, and Roger Maris, who slammed his 54th homer against Senators, admire that bat after game at Stadium. In rear are yesterday's other home run heroes: John Blanchard, two; Bill Skowron, one; and Bob Hale, -

[Tom’s Old Days @sigg20]

“Old Days”Rick Monday and Pat Corrales go at it after a
Home Plate collision during a 1972 Padres-Cubs game at
Wrigley Field.#Padres #SanDiego #Cubs  #Chicago #MLB #1970s

[Tom’s Old Days @sigg20]

Pete Alonso should still be a Met,He has 299 HRs it would be only Fitting for him to hit Career Home Run #300 during this upcoming Orioles-Mets Series.#Mets #Orioles #PeteAlonso #LGM

[Tom’s Old Days @sigg20]

“Old Days”The Yankees Mickey Mantle stands in the dugout before a 1968 game at Yankee Stadium.#mlb #Yankees #YankeeStadium #nyc #hof #1960s

[Danny Gallagher @dannogallagher7]

Wishing the best to Tim Wallach on his birthday today.
One of the greats in #expos history.
Eli played for Montreal with aplomb from 1980-1992.

[James michael🇮🇪🇺🇲🇮🇪🇺🇲⚡⚡ @Jamesyankee]

#15 #9......

Yaz....shea

[Tom’s Old Days @sigg20]

Pete Alonso should still be a Met,He has 299 HRs it would be only Fitting for him to hit Career Home Run #300 during this upcoming Orioles-Mets Series.#Mets #Orioles #PeteAlonso #LGM

[JVAN @VanderlansJim]

Remembering Jerry Coleman #botd in 1924.

Flying a total of 120 combat missions, Coleman fought in two wars as a Marine pilot in World War II and Korea. He made his #MLB debut as a 24-year-old on April 20, 1949 and finished 3rd in the AL ROY voting that year for the #Yankees ...

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"Rizzuto, who always referred to everyone by their last name, said to me:
"Hey, Kaat!
I’m going to the men's room.
Cover for me."
And off he went.
I had never done play-by-play before. Producer Don Carney asked me over the headset:
"Where’s Rizzuto?"
I said:
"He went to the bathroom."
I heard Don sigh and I knew in that moment that Rizzuto wasn't in the bathroom.
He had gone outside, grabbed a cab, and went back to the hotel because it was too darn cold.
Jim Kaat.

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"Hitler didn't snub me.
It was President Roosevelt who snubbed me.
The President didn't even send me a telegram."
Jesse Owens.
After being snubbed by FDR almost 40 years earlier, President Gerald Ford surprised Jesse Owens in 1976 by inviting him to the White House.
Owens was not only honored, but also received the "Presidential Medal of Freedom."
One year before Jesse Owens’ impressive feat at the Berlin Olympics, a young Jerry Ford watched on as Owens, nicknamed the “Buckeye Bullet”, broke three world records and tied a fourth in less than one hour at a Big 10 track meet in Ann Arbor.
As President Ford would recall before presenting the Medal of Freedom:
"I saw Jesse Owens at a Big 10 track meet in Ann Arbor, as 1 of some 10,000 or 12,000 spectators, when he broke three world records and tied a fourth.
His performance that day in the broad jump, was not equalled for 25 years.
It was a triumph that all of us will remember."
Fifteen years later, revisiting the same stadium, Jesse Owens received a standing ovation when he urged his audience, and I quote:
"To stand fast with us for freedom and democracy."
Only man in the world Jesse Owen`s refused to race was "Cool Papa" Bell!

[Stu Dolgon @StuDolgon]

Sixty years ago today in Mets history:

[James michael🇮🇪🇺🇲🇮🇪🇺🇲⚡⚡ @Jamesyankee]

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