The Catch - 54 Series [Archive]

TribeFan55

08-24-2006, 06:55 PM

This was on ESPN's Stump the Schwab today. Without looking who can answer these three things?

1. Who hit the ball that made The Catch?
2. Who was the relief pitcher that made the pitch that led to the The Catch?
3. Who started the game of The Catch?

Remember, no looking it up!

wamby

08-24-2006, 06:58 PM

This was on ESPN's Stump the Schwab today. Without looking who can answer these three things?

1. Who hit the ball that made The Catch?
2. Who was the relief pitcher that made the pitch that led to the The Catch?
3. Who started the game of The Catch?

Remember, no looking it up!

1 Vic Wertz
2 Don Liddle
3 Sal Maglie and Bob Lemon

VIBaseball

08-24-2006, 08:06 PM

And what did Don Liddle reportedly say after The Catch?

RuthMayBond

08-24-2006, 08:17 PM

And what did Don Liddle reportedly say after The Catch?I got MY man :laugh

wamby

08-25-2006, 05:01 AM

It's ironic that all these questions were answered by two Cleveland guys.

Paulmcall

08-25-2006, 06:41 AM

Those would be the guys who would never forget. They had the best team in baseball (during the regular season) and great starting pitching. However, they got snookered by Leo and the overacheiving Giants.

Erik Bedard

08-25-2006, 07:54 AM

I knew the first two and half of the last one. Wamby and RMB got to it first.

ACrank

08-25-2006, 10:39 PM

Personal story:

My parents were dating in 54 and my father's store bought tickets for games 4 & 5 of the series - the Saturday and Sunday games in Cleveland....

My parents took the tickets for the Sunday game.

It was never played.

I've been an Indian fan since before i was born.

Many years later NBC had a winter fill in sports show where you submitted your favorite sports fantasies - being the dutiful son that i was, i submitted a fantasy where the fifth game of that series got played.

It was one of the fantasies picked, and players from both teams got together for a softball game.

They just never told me when the show was going to be aired.

A few years after that i was struck out by Bob Feller. It was between games of the local minor league team's doubleheader - i just don't tell people he was in his early to mid 60s at the time. (The catcher was former major leaguer Todd Zeile.)

RuthMayBond

08-26-2006, 06:35 AM

Personal story:

My parents were dating in 54 and my father's store bought tickets for games 4 & 5 of the series - the Saturday and Sunday games in Cleveland....

My parents took the tickets for the Sunday game.

It was never played.

I've been an Indian fan since before i was born.Send me your birthdate (doesn't have to include year but that would be nice) and we might be able to prove this

ACrank

08-26-2006, 07:47 AM

My birthdate is 9/18/1961. Not sure why you asked, but hopefully it will give you the info you want.

RuthMayBond

08-26-2006, 09:21 AM

My birthdate is 9/18/1961. Not sure why you asked, but hopefully it will give you the info you want.You share a birthday with players Heinie Groh and Ryne Sandberg, but more importantly former Indians George Uhle, Billy Traber and Jody Gerut and I believe former Indian pitching coach Harvey Haddix. Mantle and Maris became the only teammates with 50 HR fifteen days before you were born, and we know what team Maris started with (plus his birthday is eight days before yours). The World Series fix began on your birthday in 1919, and we know what team that helped to win the World Series the next year. We won't mention what team Earl Webb hit his record 67th double against, on your birthday in 1931.
So yeah, I guess you really have been an Indians fan since before you were born :gt :clapping :dance

ACrank

08-26-2006, 11:35 AM

I knew about Sandberg and Traber - did not know about the others....

For many years being a Cleveland sports fan has been an inherited genetic weakness - if i had any sense or any free will in this regard i would have been a bandwagon jumper, but at this point the idea of being a Yankee or Steeler fan is enough to at least bring a cold chill (which on this humid day is somewhat refreshing).

I never expected to see the Indians in a playoff situation (the first time i saw MAJOR LEAGUE i really do think i cried at the final scene of the movie) and for many years my standing joke was that i had to live long enough to see the Indians in a 5th game of a world series - i figured i'd be about 2,000 years old by that point. (Not to mention how i almost lost a tv the first time i saw video of the Mays catch.)

I couldn't not be an Indian or Brown fan.