(09-07-2020 06:46 PM)bullet Wrote: 60s baseball and I think of Seaver, Brock and Willie Mays.
And I think Mazeroski, Mantle & Mays, Yaz, Ted William's twilight, Mays & McCovey & Marischal, Frank & Brooks Robinson (no relation), Orlando Cepeda, Hank Aaron, all of the Cardinals, Al Kaline, Harmon Killebrew, Cleon Jones and so so many more! Baseball in the 60's was fabulous and into the mid 70's. After that it started drifting away from its roots. I blame it on the designated hitter. Never muck with a great thing!
(09-07-2020 06:46 PM)bullet Wrote: 60s baseball and I think of Seaver, Brock and Willie Mays.
And I think Mazeroski, Mantle & Mays, Yaz, Ted William's twilight, Mays & McCovey & Marischal, Frank & Brooks Robinson (no relation), Orlando Cepeda, Hank Aaron, all of the Cardinals, Al Kaline, Harmon Killebrew, Cleon Jones and so so many more! Baseball in the 60's was fabulous and into the mid 70's. After that it started drifting away from its roots. I blame it on the designated hitter. Never muck with a great thing!
I think free agency hurt. Players bounced around and got bought by the Yankees or Red Sox. The powers of the 70s were Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Oakland and Baltimore. All of those are small market teams who rarely see the Series anymore. KC made in 2014 and 15 for the first time in 30 years. Baltimore and Pittsburgh haven't been there since they met in the 79 world series. Oakland and Cincinnati haven't been there since they met in 1990.
If they were going to full free agency, they needed better revenue sharing like the NFL.
(09-07-2020 08:52 AM)UofMstateU Wrote: Poker player and WPT commentator Mike Sexton passed away. This one is tough. This is the guy that got me into playing tournament poker. He had been battling prostate cancer.
I knew a guy, Ken Smith, who played tournament poker and was also a master chess player. Had a chess opening named after him. Best finish was 4th in the World Series of poker.
(09-07-2020 08:52 AM)UofMstateU Wrote: Poker player and WPT commentator Mike Sexton passed away. This one is tough. This is the guy that got me into playing tournament poker. He had been battling prostate cancer.
I knew a guy, Ken Smith, who played tournament poker and was also a master chess player. Had a chess opening named after him. Best finish was 4th in the World Series of poker.
I looked him up, that 4th place was against Stu Ungar. He also had a 6th place. He was playing back near the beginning of the WSOP. Many players back then had another "game" they excelled at. Chess, backgammon, and gin rummy were probably the tops.
Died Sept. 11, 2020: Toots Hibbert, 77, Jamaican singer (Toots and the Maytals) and songwriter, was the lead vocalist for the reggae and ska band Toots and the Maytals. A reggae pioneer, he performed for six decades and helped establish some of the fundamentals of reggae music. Hibbert's 1968 song "Do the Reggay" is widely credited as the genesis of the genre name reggae.
Artist: (Toots &) The Maytals
Song: "Do the Reggay"
1968 Beverley's (Jamaica)/ Pyramid Records (UK)
(09-18-2020 06:41 PM)JRsec Wrote: Rest in Peace Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Death announced on Facebook minutes ago.
Ruth is a pioneering lady who fought equality for women especially for them to be lawyers and judges. Without her? We may not have a Sandra Day O'Conner or other female judges on both sides.
(09-18-2020 06:41 PM)JRsec Wrote: Rest in Peace Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Death announced on Facebook minutes ago.
Ruth is a pioneering lady who fought equality for women especially for them to be lawyers and judges. Without her? We may not have a Sandra Day O'Conner or other female judges on both sides.
(09-18-2020 06:41 PM)JRsec Wrote: Rest in Peace Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Death announced on Facebook minutes ago.
Ruth is a pioneering lady who fought equality for women especially for them to be lawyers and judges. Without her? We may not have a Sandra Day O'Conner or other female judges on both sides.
O'Connor preceded her on the SCt by 12 years.
I am talking about Ruth's fight began in the 70s for equal rights for women as lawyers and judges before O'Conner was nominated to the SC.
(09-18-2020 06:41 PM)JRsec Wrote: Rest in Peace Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Death announced on Facebook minutes ago.
Ruth is a pioneering lady who fought equality for women especially for them to be lawyers and judges. Without her? We may not have a Sandra Day O'Conner or other female judges on both sides.
O'Connor preceded her on the SCt by 12 years.
I am talking about Ruth's fight began in the 70s for equal rights for women as lawyers and judges before O'Conner was nominated to the SC.
But I don't think what she was doing in the 70s had much to do with Sandra Day O'Connor.
(09-18-2020 06:41 PM)JRsec Wrote: Rest in Peace Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Death announced on Facebook minutes ago.
Ruth is a pioneering lady who fought equality for women especially for them to be lawyers and judges. Without her? We may not have a Sandra Day O'Conner or other female judges on both sides.
O'Connor preceded her on the SCt by 12 years.
I am talking about Ruth's fight began in the 70s for equal rights for women as lawyers and judges before O'Conner was nominated to the SC.
But I don't think what she was doing in the 70s had much to do with Sandra Day O'Connor.
Give him a break Owl. He's applying to be one of the Historians on the 1619 Project! Accuracy doesn't count, but confidence in your made up assertions does!
