Stories From The Diamond

[Williamsburg2599]

Welcome:waving,

This thread is here for you to share your experiences and tell us about some life lessons baseball has taught you over the years. It can be about your Little League team that went to states way back when or a day with the dad at Yankee Stadium or Ebbets Field. It could be a story about yourself, a friend, a relative or even an amazing story you read or heard about. Feel free to Add a title to your post, as I would like to keep a table on Contents here.

Enjoy:waving

[wilkerson_rulz-06]

I heard a story from a friend of a friend that Shoeless Joe Jackson had 6 hits and nearly hit for the cycle 5 years after he was banned from pro baseball, that he was the best in this minor league and that no one (Except Buck Weaver who acutally attended his games) knew it was him, people has suspisions of his being Jackson but the scorecard only read "Brown-CF"
He was heavily criticized by the crowd for playing too shallow CF but he got a way with everything since he was the ultimate four-tool player.

[SoxSon]

I heard a story from a friend of a friend that Shoeless Joe Jackson had 6 hits and nearly hit for the cycle 5 years after he was banned from pro baseball, that he was the best in this minor league and that no one (Except Buck Weaver who acutally attended his games) knew it was him, people has suspisions of his being Jackson but the scorecard only read "Brown-CF"
He was heavily criticized by the crowd for playing too shallow CF but he got a way with everything since he was the ultimate four-tool player.

See first post:
"Share your experiences and tell us about some life lessons baseball has taught you over the years."
I think he's looking for personal stories.

[Williamsburg2599]

See first post:
"Share your experiences and tell us about some life lessons baseball has taught you over the years."
I think he's looking for personal stories.
Sort of,maybe a rare story or Myth about Shoeless Joe, but that story is well known because it was at the end of Eight Men Out.

[wilkerson_rulz-06]

Sort of,maybe a rare story or Myth about Shoeless Joe, but that story is well known because it was at the end of Eight Men Out.
It was? Sorry, I din't know!:crazy

[Chelle]

Welcome:waving,

This thread is here for you to share your experiences and tell us about some life lessons baseball has taught you over the years. It can be about your Little League team that went to states way back when or a day with the dad at Yankee Stadium or Ebbets Field. It could be a story about yourself, a friend, a relative or even an amazing story you read or heard about. Feel free to Add a title to your post, as I would like to keep a table on Contents here.

Enjoy:waving


When I was younger, I went to a ball game with my dad. He was trying to cheer me up as I was entering those bizaar teenage girl years. Anyway, Pres Ronnie was at the game (back when the Pres used to go to games) at Memorial Stadium eating a hot dog. (Yeah...he was that kind of guy). And, my dad has binoculars and was looking up in the booth and Pres Ronnie spilled mustard all over his shirt.

My dad said, see Chelle? Even the Pres is a clumsy slob.

I know it's not REALLY about baseball, but it showed me that everyone is the same at a baseball game. Even if your the president of the united states. You're just a dude eating a hot dog.

[Williamsburg2599]

When I was younger, I went to a ball game with my dad. He was trying to cheer me up as I was entering those bizaar teenage girl years. Anyway, Pres Ronnie was at the game (back when the Pres used to go to games) at Memorial Stadium eating a hot dog. (Yeah...he was that kind of guy). And, my dad has binoculars and was looking up in the booth and Pres Ronnie spilled mustard all over his shirt.

My dad said, see Chelle? Even the Pres is a clumsy slob.

I know it's not REALLY about baseball, but it showed me that everyone is the same at a baseball game. Even if your the president of the united states. You're just a dude eating a hot dog.
Sure it is! Where else but a baseball game are you going to see the President spill condiments all over himself?? I rest my case:D.

[Erik Bedard]

As posted in another thread:

Hitting the ball 400 feet at the age of 12.

The 400 was IN THE AIR! If rolling counted, it was well over 450.

When the pitch is right down the middle, a little up, good things can happen. Especially when the pitcher throws around 65.

Now, the REALLY weird thing about it is that I was sick at the time with the flu. It was mild earlier that day, and I went to school, and then a couple innings before I went up, I went to the bathroom and threw up. Then, when I went up, I took the first pitch for a called strike, then took a ball, then swung and missed, then a pitch came that I thought hit me, so I argued with the ump, and he gave me a warning, and then the next pitch was a fastball, but not with the guy's usual velocity, and I absolutely CRUSHED it. The first base coach was laughing when he told me to go to second. (Our fences are 375 in left center and right center, and I was the first person to hit one out anywhere but straight down the line). I walked around the bases, dizzy the whole way, then got back to the dugout and lay down. I missed the next three days of school.