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Jim Koenigsberger
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Jim Koenigsberger
@Jimfrombaseball
Coach, Mentor, Motivator, Teacher. Master Coach, USA Baseball, SportAus, UK Coaching, Stanford Med, FSU Med School, BSAC Fellow, Proudly Nick`s Dad.
St. Catharines, Ontario
Joined May 2016
Ted Williams, one of the greatest natural hitters of all time, was retired and giving some tips to the rookies at the Red Sox spring training camp. One of them asked how to tell apart a curveball from a slider when they were coming in. Williams replied "Oh! That's easy. If it's
- "I have long been in sympathy with the Negro struggle for total citizenship, therefore I would find an appearance of any sort before a segregated house completely incompatible with my moral concepts...indeed repugnant." Dan Blocker telegram to the Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi,
- Bob Uecker once went to the mound to talk to Bob Gibson. Gibson barked, "What are you doing out here?" Uecker replied, “Oh, nothing, just going out to talk to Curt Flood in center." Cardinals management had this picture retaken because Gibson and Uecker were holding hands with
- According to Buck O'Neill and Monte Irvin, players in the Negro Leagues were given the equivalent of a dollar a day. When Babe Ruth would barnstorm with them, he'd bring in $1500 a game to be distributed to the teams. Ruth was a longtime advocate of integrating baseball
- Bob Uecker once went to the mound to talk to Bob Gibson, & Gibson barked, “What are you doing out here?” Uecker replied, “Oh, nothing, just going out to talk to Curt Flood in center.” `64 Champion St. Louis Cardinals team photo had to be retaken because in the first attempt,
- “He’s listed as day to day, but then again, aren’t we all?” Vin Scully
- “Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery & all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered" Babe Ruth
- A reporter asked Rickey Henderson if Ken Caminiti’s estimate that 50% of Major League players were taking steroids was accurate. His response was, "Well, Rickey’s not one of them, so that’s 49 percent right there."
- “He’s listed as day to day, but then again, aren’t we all?” Vin Scully
- “I can’t say that I was a big Rush fan before… But I’m a Rush fan now!” Bob Kendrick President, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum,`08, Geddy Lee donated over 600 baseballs autographed by black stars, including Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Josh Gibson. Donated to the Negro League
- Story by Mark Grace.... Rick Sutcliffe gave up back-to-back HR`s in Cincinnati. And in Cincinnati, they shoot off fireworks after a Red hits a HR. Sutcliffe was pretty intense on the day he pitched. So Eric Davis takes him deep & Paul O'Neill takes him deep right after that. So
- "Satchel Paige had a very, very good fastball... but the first time I faced Satchel, he threw me a little breaking ball, just to see what I could do, and I hit it off the top of the fence. I got a double. When I got to second, Satchel told the third baseman, 'Let me know when
- “Ted Williams got hit on one of his first missions. He was streaming smoke & fire from the engine, which in a Panther usually signalled an explosion that would blow the tail off. He bellied in at 150 mph or more, slid up the runway for 2000 feet, came to a stop, jumped out of the
