Brownieand45sfan
06-21-2006, 09:02 AM
Don Gutteridge turns 94 today! Below is the text of an article from the Pittsburgh paper (where Don lives) about this. As you can read, the Browns Fan Club's list of living Browns is cited! :) (See http://www.thestlbrowns.com/LivingBrowns.html if you haven't already.) The Pittsburgh paper evidently cares more about where he ranks on the list of living Browns than they do about where he ranks on the list of living Cardinals, Red Sox, White Sox or Pirates! Or such lists do not even exist! Kudos to Don McCurdy, the Browns website and webmaster Ray Milleur for getting the Browns a bunch of ink in a paper far away from St. Louis!!
(Here is the link to the article, which has a nice picture of Don, but please note it requires a free registration. http://www.morningsun.net/stories/062006/spo_20060620032.shtml#).
Trivia: Don was in St. Louis to attend the Brownie reunion that was held to honor the '44 team. I think it was 1994. (?)
~Emmett McAuliffe (aka Brownieand45sfan)
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Gutteridge turns 94
Former big leaguer and Pittsburg native is the 16th oldest Major League Baseball player
By JIM HENRY
Morning Sun Staff Writer
Don Gutteridge spent a lot of time Monday answering the telephone.
And every call carried the same message. Happy birthday.
"I didn't do anything except answer the phone and say 'thank you,' '' Gutteridge said Monday night on his 94th birthday. "I really got a big kick out of it. It's just about over with now. I'm going to settle down now and have a dish of ice cream and watch television."
Gutteridge said that things were going well.
"I feel good. The only thing is I don't see as well as I used to,'' Gutteridge said. "I get regular checkups, of course. I feel fine, and I don't take any medication at all whatsoever.''
Not even steroids or human growth hormones, which have grabbed headlines in major league baseball?
"No steroids is right,'' he said with a laugh.
Gutteridge, a second baseman, played for the St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates and compiled a .256 batting average during a 12 year major league career.
Gutteridge is the last survivor from the Cardinals' Gas House Gang teams in the 1930s, and according to a St. Louis Browns fan club's Web site, he's the third oldest among 65 former Browns who are still alive. Pitchers Rollie Stiles, who turns 100 on Nov. 17, and Elden Auker, who turns 96 on Sept. 21, are the oldest Browns.
According to a list from "Who's Alive and Who's Dead,'' Gutteridge ranks No. 16 among the oldest living Major League Baseball players. He was 24th on that list one year ago.
"Sixteen, good Lord,'' Gutteridge said. "I tell you one thing, I hope I stay on that list.''
One of the eight ex-big leaguers who died in the last year was Al Lopez, Gutteridge's good friend who died on Oct. 30 at the age of 97.
Ray Berres, who served as a Chicago White Sox coach with Gutteridge when Lopez was the manager, is 98 and the third oldest living major leaguer.
Howdy Groskloss, another second baseman who played in 44 games for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1930-32, turned 100 on April 10. He's seven months and one week older than Stiles, a right-hander who compiled a 9-14 record in three seasons with the Browns in the early 1930s.
(Here is the link to the article, which has a nice picture of Don, but please note it requires a free registration. http://www.morningsun.net/stories/062006/spo_20060620032.shtml#).
Trivia: Don was in St. Louis to attend the Brownie reunion that was held to honor the '44 team. I think it was 1994. (?)
~Emmett McAuliffe (aka Brownieand45sfan)
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Gutteridge turns 94
Former big leaguer and Pittsburg native is the 16th oldest Major League Baseball player
By JIM HENRY
Morning Sun Staff Writer
Don Gutteridge spent a lot of time Monday answering the telephone.
And every call carried the same message. Happy birthday.
"I didn't do anything except answer the phone and say 'thank you,' '' Gutteridge said Monday night on his 94th birthday. "I really got a big kick out of it. It's just about over with now. I'm going to settle down now and have a dish of ice cream and watch television."
Gutteridge said that things were going well.
"I feel good. The only thing is I don't see as well as I used to,'' Gutteridge said. "I get regular checkups, of course. I feel fine, and I don't take any medication at all whatsoever.''
Not even steroids or human growth hormones, which have grabbed headlines in major league baseball?
"No steroids is right,'' he said with a laugh.
Gutteridge, a second baseman, played for the St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates and compiled a .256 batting average during a 12 year major league career.
Gutteridge is the last survivor from the Cardinals' Gas House Gang teams in the 1930s, and according to a St. Louis Browns fan club's Web site, he's the third oldest among 65 former Browns who are still alive. Pitchers Rollie Stiles, who turns 100 on Nov. 17, and Elden Auker, who turns 96 on Sept. 21, are the oldest Browns.
According to a list from "Who's Alive and Who's Dead,'' Gutteridge ranks No. 16 among the oldest living Major League Baseball players. He was 24th on that list one year ago.
"Sixteen, good Lord,'' Gutteridge said. "I tell you one thing, I hope I stay on that list.''
One of the eight ex-big leaguers who died in the last year was Al Lopez, Gutteridge's good friend who died on Oct. 30 at the age of 97.
Ray Berres, who served as a Chicago White Sox coach with Gutteridge when Lopez was the manager, is 98 and the third oldest living major leaguer.
Howdy Groskloss, another second baseman who played in 44 games for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1930-32, turned 100 on April 10. He's seven months and one week older than Stiles, a right-hander who compiled a 9-14 record in three seasons with the Browns in the early 1930s.