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Yanks exhibition vs Army baseball team Sat 30 March at WP.
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Posted: 1/16/2013 4:37 PM
Yanks exhibition vs Army baseball team Sat 30 March at WP.
Yanks open season Monday 1 April 1:05PM at home vs the hated Red Sox.
Last edited 1/16/2013 4:39 PM by plain
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Posted: 1/16/2013 5:25 PM
Yankees at Doubleday?? It's been a long time
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Posted: 1/16/2013 5:36 PM
Re: Yankees at Doubleday?? It's been a long time
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Posted: 1/16/2013 5:58 PM
Re: Yanks exhibition vs Army baseball team Sat 30 March at WP.
Prepare for endless whining from Rabble. This seems like nothing but a positive experience for Army's baseball team, but I'm sure Rab will find some way to complain about it just because it's the Yankees.
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Posted: 1/16/2013 6:15 PM
Re: Yanks exhibition vs Army baseball team Sat 30 March at WP.
GoBlackKnights85 wrote: Prepare for endless whining from Rabble. This seems like nothing but a positive experience for Army's baseball team, but I'm sure Rab will find some way to complain about it just because it's the Yankees. We played the Mets in an exhibition game my senior year, and as expected, the Mets starting lineup was replaced after a few innings. A young unknown pitcher named Tug McGraw pitched for the Mets, and one of my classmates got a homerun off him, which pleased the partisan crowd no end. |
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Posted: 1/16/2013 6:57 PM
What a kick for 1927 Cadets to face Ruth AND Gehrig,or for1966..
players to face Mickey Mantle.
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Posted: 1/16/2013 8:03 PM
Re: Yanks exhibition vs Army baseball team Sat 30 March at WP.
Oh no. I'm all for the Yankees coming to West Point for a game. I would suggest tho that the Dining Staff in Washinton Hall serves some tainted steak to all the Yankees so when the play the "World Champion" Boston Red Sox two days later, they will have all a bit of food poisioning and they will be so sick, they will lose to the Beantowners in a three game sweep! Couldn't be better!  Nothing but the worst for those overpayed and overhyped Yankees. Give Hal a double portion.  |
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Posted: 1/16/2013 8:13 PM
Re: What a kick for 1927 Cadets to face Ruth AND Gehrig,or
Well... All I can say about that is if I were a picher, I would have "beaned" him. If I were the base runner, "cleats high!!!" Kinda hard about that tho. Cleats high wouldn't have bothered the Mick. He was an outfielder. Actually it will be an honor to play the Yankees even tho the team is now a bit long in the tooth and ready for crutches and wheelchairs. |
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Posted: 1/16/2013 8:19 PM
Re: What a kick for 1927 Cadets to face Ruth AND Gehrig,or
Ruth? Gehrig? 1927 Yankees? Even those guys, whoever they were, were paid by Jacob Ruppert (How did he get his money? I don't know tho) and coached by some guy named Hiller Muggins. What the hell. The Brooklyn Dodgers would have beaten those bums in a 7 game set that year.  It just was... well... they didn't play them in a 7 game set that year. So there. |
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Posted: 1/16/2013 8:48 PM
Re: What a kick for 1927 Cadets to face Ruth AND Gehrig,or
They were called the Brooklyn Robins in 1927, and they went 65-88, so I don't think the Yankees dodged much of a bullet that season . |
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Posted: 1/16/2013 10:47 PM
RE: Yanks exhibition vs Army baseball team Sat 30 March at WP.
Babe Ruth came to West Point years after he retired. My Grandfather used to work there. He ate in the cadet mess hall with Babe & about a half dozen other people. He said Ruth was very down to earth in person.
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Posted: 1/17/2013 7:26 AM
RE: Yanks exhibition vs Army baseball team Sat 30 March at WP.
That's a great story.
The Babe was born with nothing and grew up in an orphanage. He knew that he was lucky to be blessed by the good Lord with his phenomenal talent and he never forgot where he came from. He always remembered his humble roots, and to the day he died he was donating money to charitable organizations and helping folks who didn't get the same breaks in life that he did. He was the sort of fellow who didn't consider himself better than anybody, and was a proponent of integrating baseball in an era when most white players and fans (and every team owner) was vehemently opposed to it. It doesn't surprise me that he'd hang out in the mess hall and shoot the breeze with the cadets like old friends (during the interwar era when sports stars didn't have any incentive for a photo op with the military, mind you). How many big time sports stars would come to West Point and pal around with the cadets without any cameras or press around today? Despite being a larger-than-life figure, the Bambino is a guy that today's pro athletes could learn a lesson in humility from.
Last edited 1/17/2013 7:27 AM by GoBlackKnights85
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Posted: 1/17/2013 9:32 AM
Great Ruth story: He roomed on the road with pitcher Waite Hoyt.
Hoyt said ''I didn't room with Babe, I roomed with his suitcases.''
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Posted: 1/17/2013 8:36 PM
Re: What a kick for 1927 Cadets to face Ruth AND Gehrig,or
They will always be known as the Dodger "BUMS" to me. I loved 'em.
Incidentally, back in the 1940's in the NY Daily News, they always refered to the Dodgers in their headline as --
THE FLOCK.
Now where they got that handle, I have no idea.
I do know reason for the name of the Dodgers. It was culled from the Brooklyn public who always were DODGING the trolley cars of that era as they walked the streets of Brooklyn.
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Posted: 1/17/2013 8:41 PM
RE: Yanks exhibition vs Army baseball team Sat 30 March at WP.
They don't make guys like the Babe anymore. But- Why oh why, did Boston ever trade him to the Yankees of all teams? |
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Posted: 1/17/2013 9:48 PM
Re: What a kick for 1927 Cadets to face Ruth AND Gehrig,or
I thought you were really a Dodger fan -- I guess not. When Brooklyn was managed by Wilbert Robinson, they were called the Robins - hence the nickname the Flock |
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Posted: 1/19/2013 1:36 PM
Re: Yanks exhibition vs Army baseball team Sat 30 March at WP.
Great Picture on the GAS website of classmate, friend & teammate Jerry Johnson (G-3 I think) & Bobby Murcer.
I think Jerry ended up as Regimental Commander.
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