ON THIS DAY, 1970
On his 80th birthday the Yankees retire the jersey of the Ol' Perfesser, w/Mantle & Berra
Casey -- w/all his goofy sayings etc, a great player -- NY hero in 1923 WS winning game 1 w/an inside the park HR w/2 out in 9th -- & game 3 w/another HR
career .284 hitter -- spent his last 2 years as a player in Boston w/NL Braves -- & last few years w/the Wets giving rise to many Casey-isms -- "if they say it can't work, it don't always work that way" etc etc

Jimmy Connors

Frank Gifford

Allen Collins

Otis Taylor

God rest his soul.

The White Sox paid tribute to late greats Minnie Minoso and Billy Pierce by wearing 1959 era throwback jerseys. All had Minoso's No. 9.

Classy move by ChiSox -- but boy -- any resulting inspiration/aspirations about winning the game -- even on south side, it's all about Cubbies nowadays in Windy City -- 4 years into Theo's reign, he's found right manager & Cubs are crankin (14 of 15) -- huge wknd series, also NY-Tor.

MAY-b 2nd year in row previous-year WS winner doesn't make playoffs -- long way to go tho -- Let's Go Bucs

we see King Felix this aftrn -- goodbye win streak (of 2 games) -- David Ortiz is in 1 of his sick grooves -- getting career HR #500 this season would be awesome (9 to go) -- Bogaerts has played well -- haven't followed Nap since he was traded, hopefully he's doing good -- bottom line, echoing jkeller's post -- let's go Sox

[Edited on 8/15/2015 by Stephen]

Rudy May

Missed this over the weekend, but The Bird was from my home town and for those of us who were littler leaguers in 1976, he was a hero. This was tweeted out by The Sporting News on Saturday (he was also overall AL RoY in '76)...

"The late Mark 'The Bird' Fidrych would have been 59 today. He was @sportingnews AL rookie pitcher of the year in '76."

[Edited on 8/17/2015 by gondicar]

Joe Ferguson

James Street and Darrell Royal at the Cotton Bowl

Larry Legend officially retired 23 years ago today...

Angus. Seeing him and his mates live for the first time in Foxboro on Saturday, from 11th row. This is one I'll be able to take off the bucket list, can't wait!

Tim Raines

John Havlicek

Larry Isaac

Good one of Hondo being guarded by Portland's Bob Gross

BOB STANLEY
The Steamer
1977-89
115-97, 3.64 ERA
Great 1st half of career, not so great 2nd but he was the Steamer -- rookie on the 1977 team that was so awesome

RICO PETROCELLI
1965-76 & along w/the Steamer one of the last career-long Sox -- as solid as there was at SS -- team guy all the way -- moved to 3rd when they asked him, then much to the disaptmnt of fans was cut in favor of Butch Hobson in '77, the same year Stanley made the team
the first SS to ever hit 40 HR -- that was Rico's big year, 1969 -- .297 BA, 40 HR 97 RBI

[Edited on 8/24/2015 by Stephen]

Dave Justice
305 HR

Saw AC/DC for the first time Sat night...

MIND=BLOWN. What a rock n roll show they put on.

Snapped this pic during the encore...for those about to rock...FIRE!!!...we salute you!!!

Cross that one off the bucket list!

Daryl Strawberry
335 HR

Don Perkins

Sox 1982-92
became 2nd player to defect to NY via free agency, after Luis T, to be followed by Damon, Ellsbury, others
his 4 year run from 1985-88 was unmatched -- .368, .357, .363, .366 -- became a very good 3rd baseman too

Sox 1982-92
became 2nd player to defect to NY via free agency, after Luis T, to be followed by Damon, Ellsbury, others
his 4 year run from 1985-88 was unmatched -- .368, .357, .363, .366 -- became a very good 3rd baseman too

Yeah; maybe - but this is the way I always remember Wade