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Re: Pale Hose History
DIR By: Fury
Date: June 28, 2011, 12:13 pm
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The Sox' handling of Fisk's forced retirement was some of the
worst PR I've ever seen. Just shabby.
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Re: Pale Hose History
DIR By: Joshpr
Date: June 28, 2011, 5:29 pm
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Yes they did
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Re: Pale Hose History
DIR By: JhonJeterWD40
Date: June 28, 2011, 5:43 pm
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I have to give Fury some points for restraint on laying off the
most recent version of BlackSox cover band meme.
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Re: Pale Hose History
DIR By: 4nek8
Date: June 28, 2011, 6:12 pm
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I'm with you there. I'm still somewhat shocked that he let
slide your dig at Frankie Goes To Hollywood without retaliation.
Maybe he's mellowing with age.
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Re: Pale Hose History
DIR By: BlackSox
Date: June 28, 2011, 11:03 pm
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Actually, we were called "Gerald Fitz Ed" and were a Right Said
Fred cover band, but close enough.
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Re: Pale Hose History
DIR By: 4nek8
Date: June 28, 2011, 11:31 pm
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Came a day when BlackSox just said "I'm too sexy for this gig."
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Re: Pale Hose History
DIR By: AndyMacFAIL
Date: June 29, 2011, 2:18 am
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Where are they now?
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Pete Varney[/center]
Pete Varney was drafted seven times by major league clubs
between 1967 and 1971. He graduated from Harvard in 1971. Pete
caught the 2-point conversion pass that tied the big game with
Yale 28-28 in 1968. Varney was the first round draft pick of the
Chicago White Sox in 1971.
Pete Varney spent most of his playing career in the minors. He
showed some power in 1973 (18 HR) and 1974 (16 HR). Pete had
late season call-ups in 1973 (.000 in 4 at bats) and 1974 (.250
in 28 at bats). Varney spent the entire 1975 season with the
White Sox and batted .271 in 36 games as the backup catcher for
Brian Downing.
Pete played in 14 games and batted .244 in 41 at bats before
being traded to the Atlanta Braves for Blue Moon Odom on June
15. Varney spent most of the remanider of the season at AAA
Richmond. He batted .100 in 10 at bats for the Braves in '76.
Pete was at Richmond again in 1977 and retired after the season.
After he retired from baseball Pete coached high school baseball
for three years. Varney has been the head baseball coach at
Brandeis University in Massachusetts since 1980.
Pete Varney then .... & Pete Varney today:
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more on Pete Varney today:
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Re: Pale Hose History
DIR By: AndyMacFAIL
Date: June 29, 2011, 4:15 am
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On June 29 in Baseball History...
1912 - Rube Marquard's NL-record consecutive game winning streak
(20th Century) goes to an amazing 18-0 as he tops Boston‚ 8-6‚
for New York's 12th straight win over the hapless Braves.
1915 - Led by Tris Speaker's 5-for-5‚ the Red Sox trip the
Yankees‚ 4-3‚ in 10 innings. Babe Ruth gets the win‚ going all
the way before Sheriff Gainer hits for him in the 10th.
1916 - The Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds played a nine-inning
game with just one baseball.
1923 - Brooklyn's Jack Fournier went 6-for-6 with a home run,
two doubles and three singles. The Dodgers beat the Philadelphia
Phillies 14-5.
1937 - Chicago Cubs first baseman Rip Collins played an entire
game without a putout or an assist.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio singles against Washington knuckleballer
Dutch Leonard in the sixth inning in the first game of a
doubleheader to tie George Sisler's A.L. consecutive-game hit
record of forty-one (41). In the nightcap he collects a
seventh-inning single off of Walt Masterson to set the record at
forty-two (42) games.
1950 - In an effort to thwart the ML's signing of black players‚
Dr. J. B. Martin‚ the president of the Chicago Giants of the
Negro American League‚ instructs manager‚ Ted "Double Duty"
Radcliffe to sign white players. Radcliffe inks three white
players‚ teenagers Lou Chirban‚ Lou Clarizio and Al Dubetts.
Later in the year he will sign at least two others (Stanley
Miarka and Frank Dyall). However‚ their Negro League careers
will be brief.
1955 - Willie Mays hits the first grand slam of his career‚ off
Clem Labine‚ and accounts for all the RBI in a 6-1 Giant win
over Brooklyn. Roy Campanella has a broken spur in his knee and
will miss 2 weeks.
1961 - With three home runs at Philadelphia, including a
tenth-inning shot to win 8-7, Willie Mays becomes the fourth
major-league player with three or more home runs twice in one
season. Manager Gene Mauch's efforts to conceal his starting
pitcher and force Alvin Dark's hand has a Phillies lineup
including hurlers Don Ferrarese (batting leadoff, playing center
field), Jim Owens (third, right field), Chris Short (seventh,
catcher), and Ken Lehman (ninth, pitcher) against San Francisco.
When Dark sends a lefty to the mound, Mauch replaces Ferrarese.
Dark then replaces Billy O'Dell with Sam Jones. Mauch replaces
Lehman with Dallas Green after two batters. All the maneuvering
takes three hours and twenty (20) minutes.
1968 - Detroit's Jim Northrup hit his third grand slam in a week
and the Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 5-2.
1969 - On Billy Williams Day in Chicago, the Cubs outfielder
passes Stan Musial's National League record for consecutive
games played (896). The Cubs sweep the Cardinals 3-1 and 12-1
before 41,060.
1977 - Willie Stargell hits his 400th career home run, this one
coming off Eric Rasmussen of the Cardinals.
1984 - Pete Rose plays in his 3,309th major-league game,
surpassing Carl Yastrzemski as the all-time leader. Rose goes
0-for-5, but Montreal beats Cincinnati 7-3.
1986 - Detroit beats Milwaukee 9-5 in the first game of a
doubleheader split, making Tigers manager Sparky Anderson the
first manager ever to win six-hundred games in each league.
1987 - In the first game of Philadelphia's doubleheader sweep of
Pittsburgh, Steve Bedrosian records his twelfth consecutive save
(in twelve appearances) to break the major-league record set by
Sparky Lyle in 1975.
1990 - Oakland's Dave Stewart and the Dodgers Fernando
Valenzuela both throw no-hitters. Stewart blanks the Blue Jays
5-0, and a few hours later Valenzuela beats the Cardinals 6-0.
1992 - Oakland's Dennis Eckersley sets the new standard with his
twenty-sixth straight save of the season.
1995 - The Dodgers' Hideo Nomo struck out thirteen Colorado
Rockies in a 3-0 victory, giving him fifty (50) strikeouts in
four (4) games. That broke the Los Angeles record of forty-nine
(49) over four (4) games accomplished three (3) times by Sandy
Koufax, the last thirty (30) years earlier.
2003 - Eric Byrnes hit for the cycle and matched a franchise
record with five hits in Oakland's 5-2 win over San Francisco.
2004 - At Bank One Ballpark, Diamondbacks’ 40-year old
fireballer Randy Johnson records his 4,000 career strikeout
whiffing Padres' third baseman Jeff Cirillo, a fellow USC
Trojan, to become the fourth player in major league baseball
history to reach the plateau. The ‘Big Unit’ (3,237 1/3) needs
less innings than Nolan Ryan (3,844 2/3), Roger Clemens (4,151),
and Steve Carlton (4,991 1/3) to accomplish the feat.
2005 - Craig Biggio breaks Don Baylor’s record for being hit by
a pitch as he is plunked for the 268th time in his career. At
Coors Field, Rockies starter Byung-Hyun Kim hits the Astros'
second baseman on the left elbow in the fourth inning to
establish a new mark, both literally and figuratively.
2007 - With a triple in the second inning, a double in the
fourth, a three-run home run in the next frame, and a bloop
single in the seventh, Aubrey Huff becomes the third player to
hit for the cycle since the franchise moved to Baltimore in
1954. The southpaw-swinging first baseman joins Cal Ripken
(1984) and Brooks Robinson (1960) as the only other Orioles to
accomplish the feat, and the first to do it in front of the home
crowd.
2010 - Minutes before the game against the Mets in San Juan’s
Hiram Bithorn Stadium, Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria tells his
players at an impromptu team meeting that the club has decided
to retain interim manager Edwin Rodriguez to the end of the
season. Rodriguez, the first Puerto Rican manager in the major
leagues, ironically is told of the decision when Florida is
playing a series in Puerto Rico, five minutes away from his
home.
Baseball Birthdays on June 29...
1848 - Radcliff, John
1861 - Sowders, Len
1863 - Robinson, Wilbert
1867 - Reitz, Heinie
1867 - Seward, Ed
1873 - Sutthoff, Jack
1875 - Steelman, Farmer
1876 - Flaherty, Patsy
1877 - Donahue, She
1880 - McGill, Bill
1884 - Patton, Harry
1887 - Nagelsen, Lou
1888 - Shelton, Skeeter
1888 - Veach, Bobby
1897 - Adkins, Grady
1898 - Long, Jimmie
1910 - Whitehead, Burgess
1910 - Healy, Francis
1915 - Trout, Dizzy
1925 - Connelly, Bill
1925 - Jones, Nippy
1926 - Morgan, Bobby
1928 - Testa, Nick
1928 - Verble, Gene
1933 - Shaw, Bob
1934 - Wilson, Duane
1936 - Killebrew, Harmon
1941 - Boccabella, John
1941 - Stahl, Larry
1951 - Freeman, Jimmy
1951 - Kimm, Bruce
1954 - Honeycutt, Rick
1956 - Guerrero, Pedro
1957 - Miller, Eddie
1966 - Hoy, Peter
1967 - Wehner, John
1969 - Martinez, Pablo
1969 - Glinatsis, George
1969 - Alberro, Jose
1973 - Rakers, Jason
1973 - Valdes, Pedro
1977 - McKnight, Tony
Baseball Deaths on June 29...
1935 - O'Neill, Jack
1942 - Cueto, Manuel
1945 - Winters, Clarence
1955 - Milan, Horace
1957 - Van Buren, Deacon
1979 - Williams, Steamboat
1979 - Bassler, Johnny
1990 - Perry, Boyd
1994 - Mueller, Ray
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Re: Pale Hose History
DIR By: AndyMacFAIL
Date: June 29, 2011, 4:31 am
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This Date In White Sox History - June 29th
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June 29, 1995 - The White Sox pound out 22 hits in a 17-13 win
over the Brewers at Milwaukee's County Stadium. White Sox third
baseman Robin Ventura gets five of those hits‚ including a
homer‚ and scores four runs while driving home three.
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Re: Pale Hose History
DIR By: BlackSox
Date: June 29, 2011, 11:18 am
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What's up with that cartoon factoid on the back of the Pete
Varney card? Fred Freaking Lynn? What, Varney had nothing
factoid-worthy? Plus, Fred is using one of those little kid
bats.
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