Tom’s Old Days

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[Maris4HOF @RMaris0961]

Outfielder Roger Maris #32 of the Cleveland Indians poses for a portrait prior to a game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium circa 1957 in New York, New York. ⚾️

[JVAN @VanderlansJim]

November 7, 1965 - Jim Brown in action vs the Eagles at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
#Cleveland #Browns #NFL #1960s #OTD

[JVAN @VanderlansJim]

November 7, 1963 - After the 1963 season in which he batted .287 with 28 HRs and 85 RBI, along with collecting 257 total bases with a SLG % of .528, Elston Howard wins the AL MVP Award.
#MLB #OTD #1960s #Yankees

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"Ray Nitschke had great study habits and analyzed as much film as Bart Starr. Nitschke used to drive Vince Lombardi crazy during practice because he was able to call out all the offensive plays before the snap.
He would run around screaming:
"Watch out for the pass;
]Watch out for the draw!"
Vince would scream at him to shut up.
Ray would just grin, and after a play or two Lombardi would start screaming again.
The most amazing thing about Nitschke is that he played his entire career on one leg. Ray Nitschke`s left leg had been injured so much in High School and in College that the muscles had atrophied and never fully regenerated.
His left leg was 50% smaller than his right leg."
Domenic Gentile.
Green Bay Packer's trainer.
"Sometimes I thought of Ray Nitschke as more of an opponent than a teammate, he inflicted so much damage in practice.
He and Jimmy Taylor just didn’t know what it was like to brother-in-law, to ease up." "Instant Replay"
Jerry Kramer.
On July 2, 1963 a metal tower on the Packers practice field fell over on top of Ray Nitschke.
The tower drove a spike into Nitschke's helmet, but didn't injure him.
Lombardi ran over to see what had happened, but when told it had fallen on Ray Nitschke, Lombardi said:
"He'll be fine.
Get back to work!"
Ray Nitschke's helmet with the hole is currently on display in the Packer Hall of Fame in Green Bay.
Nitschke and Lombardi.

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"You the old man on this club Yaz."
Luis Tiant.
"Bullshit!!
Your birth certificate is a joke!
It may say you’re thirty-seven, but you’re fifty.
Who checked those records back in Cuba in the twenties?"
Carl Yastrzemski.
"Hey, Yaz, I be pitcheen for ten year while you are sitteen aroun’ with you grancheeldren.
I send you a postcard, let you know what’s goeen on."
Tiant.
"Ten years?
You’ll be senile by spring training.
Look in the mirror, Luis.
You’re old."
Yastrzemski.
"I've never heard anything like that:
"Loo-Eee, Loo-Eee, Loo-Eee" chanting in Fenway Park in my life.
But I'll tell you one thing:
Luis Tiant deserved every bit of it."
Carl Yastrzemski.
"El Tiante" is in my HOF!!!!!

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

Tippy Martinez, & Thurman Munson

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[Tom’s Old Days @sigg20]

Memorable Athletes From the Past
#Lions #NFL #HOF #nostalgia

[Tom’s Old Days @sigg20]

“Old Days”No one likes to be stopped,once they get Rolling
#entertainment #comedy #JackieGleason #ArtCarney #nostalgia #TV

[Tom’s Old Days @sigg20]

New Feature
#Before They Were Managers
#Royals #Cardinals #HOF #nostalgia

[Howard Kellman @HowardKellman]

Happy 88th Birthday to Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Kaat! He was a very good pitcher for a very long time. He also was an excellent fielder, winning Gold Glove after Gold Glove! Originally signed by the old Washington Senators! @sigg20 @AndyFurmanFSR

[Tom’s Old Days @sigg20]

“Old Days”No one likes to be stopped,once they get Rolling
#entertainment #comedy #JackieGleason #ArtCarney #nostalgia #TV

[Tom’s Old Days @sigg20]

Good Night for NYC Basketball Fans,at the Mic for
Nets-Knicks Game,Two of the Very Best
Ian Eagle on Yes Network and Mike Breen on MSG.#Knicks #Nets #NBA #NYC

[Howard Kellman @HowardKellman]

Former @Mets lefthander Jerry Koosman has paased away at age 83. He was a two-time All-Star who won two games for the Mets in the 1969 World Series! He won over 200 games in a very lengthy career, most of it with the Mets.
He was a great competitor! RIP @sigg20 @AndyFurmanFSR

[Tom’s Old Days @sigg20]

That”The Seasons Over Feeling”
“Wait Till Next Year”
#Mets #LGM #MLB #2027

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“Old Days”Art Carney,Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows go over a script for a new “The Honeymooners” episode.#1950s #comedy #Entertainment #Nostalgia  #TV

[Tom’s Old Days @sigg20]

Memorable Athletes From the Past
#Braves #Cubs  #Cardinals #MLB #HOF

[JVAN @VanderlansJim]

October 27, 1963 - Jim Brown #32 of the Cleveland Browns fights off Sam Huff #70 of the New York Giants as Jimmy Patton #20 pursues the play during their game at Cleveland Stadium. The Giants won the game 33-6. (📸 Robert Riger)
#NFL #OTD #1960s

[Maris4HOF @RMaris0961]

Outfielders Roger Maris #9 and Mickey Mantle #7 of the New York Yankees grace the front cover of a magazine published by JKW Sports Publications in 1962 in New York, New York. The magazone chronicles the chase to break Babe Ruth's single season home run record that they put on -

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"In his prime he stood six feet tall, weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity to his frame you seldom see, among such sinews.
His black hair was thick and tightly curled. His face was strong and smooth.
He had the look of a young indomitable centurion.
Others came out, thousands of others, long before the formal competition started, to watch the warm-up throws.
You could hear gasps at Ebbets Field and sometimes, an hour before game time, bursts of applause.
I cannot imagine Carl Furillo in his prime as anything other than a ballplayer.
Right field in Brooklyn was his destiny."
"The Emperor of Right Field."
Roger Kahn.
"The Reading Rifle."
"Quite simply, Furillo was a great player. Some write about his arm, the human cannon.
He was not the man you'd first ask to join you in a casual game of catch.
Or how he played the right-field wall at Ebbets Field.
That wall, a mystery of dead spots, bounces, angles and planes, was a wonder of baseball before the dream-destroyers wrecked it.
Furillo never attended high school.
Plane geometry remained a mystery to him.
But he knew every angle, every carom.
The way Furillo played the wall describes an art form."
Sammy Kahn, New York Times.
"We hated the Giants.
We just hated the uniform."
Carl Furillo.
After hitting a pair of home run's against the Giants, pitcher Sheldon Jones, hit Furillo in the head with a pitch just above the ear.
Furillo was carried off the field on a stretcher.
Doctors said there was no concussion.
That night Sheldon Jones visited Furillo in the hospital and told him that Mgr. Leo Durocher, now manager with the Giants, had ordered him to hit Carl Furillo.
1950.
The Duke of Flatbush comin' to help!