- Messages
- 17,220
- Location
- New York City
I absolutely love this.
Baseball is as we know at heart a complicated and complex game of tactics and strategy with advantage
default given naivete and trickery if so achieved and once gained trumps all. Leo should have anticipated a balk, but so obviously played, Casey planted rubber with DeMaggio on Third, a fast pitch dealt but the discarded ball turned balk call and wave in. Truly classic diamond shirt front poker.
Casey's later conduct was unjustified and Durocher forfeited whatever argument he might otherwise
have had playing the sucker punched fool right down the middle. Predictable Leo was a mark
deliberately set up by his former manager.
Believe it or not, several seasons ago while listening to a Chicago Cubs game broadcast over
WSCR 67*AM The Score (ain't nothing like Major League Baseball and radio) Cubs hoss caller
Pat Hughes was caught flat-footed by an umpire's balk declaration against Yu Darvish, then going
through his two season Snowflake Samurai spell when he couldn't hit the plate.
"...ain't nothing like Major League Baseball and radio..."
I doubt the younger generations gets this, but if you grew up in a pre-internet, pre-cable-TV age like I did in the '70s, baseball on the radio is special in many ways.