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Diamond_Dog

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9. How funny!

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #8)

Wed Dec 11, 2024, 05:11 PM

Dec 2024

I guess if ya got a cannon arm, it helps to be accurate!

No runner ever went from first to third on a single with Clemente or Colavito in RF.

Another baseball story. My Dad pitched in the sandlot leagues in Cleveland when he was young. This was ages ago. He said just for fun during practices he’d have the catcher get behind home plate and he’d stand out in the middle of center field with a basket of balls and throw strikes down the middle of the plate, boom, boom, boom. This story always impressed me to pieces as a youngster.

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Rocky Colavito, beloved former Cleveland Indians slugger, dies at 91 [View all] Diamond_Dog Dec 2024 OP

Wow! That's a blast from the past. Sneederbunk Dec 2024 #1

Saw him play when I was a schoolgirl. blm Dec 2024 #2

Now Ya tell me. BOSSHOG Dec 2024 #4

A memorable player BOSSHOG Dec 2024 #3

And Detroit Tiger! bif Dec 2024 #5

He Had A Hellacious Throwing Arm ProfessorGAC Dec 2024 #6

A cannon for an arm Diamond_Dog Dec 2024 #7

Just Because I Should... ProfessorGAC Dec 2024 #8

How funny! Diamond_Dog Dec 2024 #9

Going From 1st To Third ProfessorGAC Dec 2024 #10

He was a hell of a player. Diamond_Dog Dec 2024 #11

Great player and one of the great kairos12 Dec 2024 #12