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It is a slow news day. And yet the links are as inevitable as death and Texas...
Marty Springstead, 74, Managers’ Bane as A.L. Umpire
The umpire who called Clyde Wright's No Hitter passed away.
Gholson: Ryan fights back against Angels
This is an article to read aloud in redneck yeehaw voice for maximum effect.
Toledo Blade, 1951
You think SOPA is bad? In 1951 the owners wanted to ban major league broadcasts in towns with minor league teams in order to keep game attendance figures up!
The Daily Oxnard Courier, 1912
When Angels batter Heinie Heitmuller passed away form Typhoid, the headline was equal in size to the start of World War I.
Heinie Heitmuller’s Posthumous Batting Title
In 1912, Heinie Heitmuller the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast league officially captured the batting title after his death from typhoid fever.
On a much happier note, Happy 37th Birthday to Giant-Killer David Eckstein.
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That's a hell of a find
from the Oxnard (Press) Courier. I still remember the final location for that place over on 8th street in crappy downtown Oxnard adjacent to the GTE building. I think it closed the same year as the baseball strike or maybe early 95, I can’t remember. For a time, it was two dueling papers: the Star Free Press (which my parents subscribed to) and the OPC.
Ahhh memories….
Oh and that Gertrude Wright had Kardashian beat by a good 99 years.
blast21dave - January 20, 2012
Re: Gholson's column
He is apparently the Texas cousin of the LA Times’ Bill Plaschke, who also subscribes to the same “one sentence equals one paragraph” style that every 3rd-grader facing an essay embraces. Combine that with the My Weekly Reader typeface and we see a minuscule idea turned into a contractually-obligated sports column.
I figure the low literacy rate in his subscriber base ultimately works in his favor.
Otherwise, he states as a fact that the TV contract for the Rangers begins paying out in the 2014 season. Everything I have read to date says it doesn’t kick in until 2015.
Of course, he still believes the deal is paying the Rangers $3B, a myth that was put to bed a year ago when it was clarified that the deal pays about $1.6B, with escalator clauses which could raise the payout. But, hey, it’s just a newspaper in Wichita Falls; who needs facts or accuracy, much less literary style?
George Kaplan - January 20, 2012
Reading that article was torturous
I was unaware that a gig as your high school newspaper’s sports correspondent was enough to get a job at a real paper in Wichita.
I don’t think we’d even let that article fly as a fanpost on HH
BruinHalo - January 20, 2012 via mobile
I remembered a moment from J-school college days this morning
One of the members of the class (someone who became famous in sports, not for his writing) tried to pawn off a Plaschke-esque trifle which had the unmistakable rhythm of
The instructor put this up on the overhead projector (I am reaaaaaaly dating myself with this story) and informed the class, “There is more whitespace on this page than at a Klan rally.”
George Kaplan - January 20, 2012
He's also looking forward to a hell of a final homestand
He has us playing games in Arlington from September 28 through September 230.
Stirrups - January 20, 2012 via iPhone app
To support our team
We need to mass migrate
eyespy - January 20, 2012
I cant believe he wrote this with a straight face:
“I respect the baseball opinion of Bobby Valentine more than anyone.”
ItCouldHappen - January 20, 2012
He is an awful writer
My journalism teacher used his articles as a teaching point on how not to write.
Schultzy - January 21, 2012
I love Halos Heaven
this post is brought to you by a six pack of Leinenhbrugh and four remaining Heineken cans… jus sayin…. and LCD Soundsystem, 9:40 at night in South Korea.
That’s an aamazing post about the MiLB btw.
BrentSchmidt - January 20, 2012
+1 on the LCD Soundsystem!
5thStarter - January 20, 2012
GO NIners
F-you New York
DAD OF VLAD - January 20, 2012
F-you niners
Go RAMS…. in the draft!
BruinHalo - January 20, 2012
Already bought my Super Bowl tickets
number 6 here we come
DAD OF VLAD - January 20, 2012
Did you really? That is awesome. Also brave
hauldog - January 20, 2012
no but i will buy a new tv for the SB
so i can watch my NINERS in 32’ HD glory
DAD OF VLAD - January 20, 2012
32 feet?! Damn, DOV, that's ballin'.
5thStarter - January 20, 2012
my couch is 6 feet away from the tv
do you think that is too big?
DAD OF VLAD - January 20, 2012
Not at all. Just wear sunglasses.
5thStarter - January 20, 2012
reminds me of that great scene in Spinal Tap
ItCouldHappen - January 20, 2012
GO Niners
hauldog - January 20, 2012
This is for you DOV
Ashkon – Niners in Paris
hauldog - January 20, 2012
saw it and hate it
stupid playoff songs
DAD OF VLAD - January 21, 2012
How is that Rev and Wi make even slow news days interesting?
5thStarter - January 20, 2012
37??
Time flies..thanks for the memories David
YOUknowulovetheIE - January 20, 2012 via mobile
Hell, the NFL actually does this, except they black out their own broadcasts.
Suboptimal - January 20, 2012
From the Department of "Some Things Never Change"
In the Oxnard paper, page 3, in the recap of the WS game between the NY Giants and the Boston Red Sox, we get this gem:
“Nearly a thousand people were camped out on the Polo grounds throughout the night in an endeavor to get a good seat. 300 Boston rooters secured seats together, but only after a stiff scrap with Ban Johnson [stirrups note – Ban Johnson founded the AL and was League President at the time]. Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston hearing that Johnson was to fail to “come through” with the block of seats sent hte following telegram:
Unless these 300 Red Sox rooters are given seats for the first game, I will prevent the world’s series games in Boston by revoking the charter of the Boston team." The bluff worked.
Stirrups - January 20, 2012
nice find
eyespy - January 20, 2012
I love the line
Called out by the greater umpire
ItCouldHappen - January 20, 2012
That dude could write
I enjoyed reading that.
eyespy - January 20, 2012
That whole paper is an ode to language.
You can find that flower even in the ads.
Stirrups - January 20, 2012
Denizen of Cardinals blog Viva El Birdos here
Just wanted to pass along this picture meme to you guys. You need it more than we do now.
(Here’s a slightly higher-res version.)
You may need to change the shade of red a bit, though.
mojowo11 - January 20, 2012
all red is angels red
DAD OF VLAD - January 20, 2012
Long live the meme! Long live the meme!
BruinHalo - January 20, 2012 via mobile
Why, thank you, mojowo11!
cath619 - January 21, 2012
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