Sox and Hawks

A few Sports-related goodies...

 

On the perch : FoxSports.com Photo Gallery#sport=MLB&photo=7986456... a nesting hawk attacks a Red Sox fan who got a little too close... or who rooted against the Orioles too heavily. Hawks don't f*ck around, this one split that kid's wig.... and of course we have the link to the photo essay.

When I showed thse pics to the Colonel, he was like "That girl is lucky that she wasn't hit by Mike Hawk. She might still be in therapy."

Sorry, girls... he's taken.

 

Steve Dalkowski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia... Coach Shapiro of the Bourne Braves mentioned this guy to me. He was throwing pure smoke (estimates ran from 100 to 120 mph, in an era before there were radar guns available for baseball pitchers). He was iller than an AIDS patient, and the kid from Bull Durham was styled after StD.

Coach Shapiro said that even Ted Williams was afraid to hit against him. "Fastest I've ever seen," said the Splendid Splinter. He was a huge lefthander bringing high heat, much like a shorter Randy Johnson.

Some of his noteworthy accomplishments, besides terrifying a guy who fought Koreans.... striking out 24 batters, but losing the game because he had like a dozen wild pitches/hit batters..... blowing out his elbow pitching in his first big league game.... being on the first team Tommy Lasorda coached (read the link... Tommy had a funny way of coaching Steve... trust me, it's good Wikipedia)... this dude was one of a kind.

 

Ocean Front home on Duxbury Beach .... Anyone wanna rent a house on a gorgeous private beach?

Fat house, fat beach, fat view, fat porch.... 7 mile private beach... way closer to Boston than some Falmouth sandtrap... you can do a lot worse than lounging in this baby for a week or two.

Oh yeah.. this is a sports column.

Ummmm.... Great surfcasting from the beach!

If you ever heard the story I tell about the Colonel catching a striper from the couch..... that happened about two doors down from this house.

 

Jack Hillerich Jim Easton Mike Greenwell Greg Haeger Cape Cod Baseball League - SI Vault... an old Sports Illy article from 1989 about the demise of wooden bats, and how they'd be gone from the Show by 1992 or so. The story starts off in the Cape League.

The one year I coached softball- or the year before someone who knew anything about softball joined our staff- the use of aluminum bats was a hot topic.

A few things you should know about aluminum vs. wood bats:

- They provide greater power. Cape League averages for power stats (home runs, etc...) fell off sharply after they went to all wood bats in 1985.

- Wooden bat companies have trouble keeping up the supply for the demand, as they say in the business world.

- While you need a pretty fast glove to get into the Show, little league is a different story. Every year, according to what the MIAA sent me, something like like 280 million kids are skull-fractured by searing line shots off the aluminum bats of their rivals.

This reminds me of Jim Abbott, the one-armed pitcher from the 1980s. With only one arm, it was impossible for him to get his glove on immediately after throwing a pitch. Someone asked his manager the obvious question, and the manager gave the obvious answer.

"What's he gonna do if someone lines one back at him?"

The manager smiled... "The same thing everyone else does when that happens... duck."

 

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