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dick deluxe

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Aug 26 09 6:46 PM

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Boy-I'm older than dirt! In digging through some old shots I found this classic of my bro, me and Dad and Grandpa outside of old Sportsman Park in St Louis in the summer of 1963.

The game was the Cardinals versus the Giants and dig some of the names on the field that day.....Juan Marichal pitching versus Curt Simmonds...Willie Mays, Willie McCovey (playing left!), Orlando Cepeda, Harvery Kuenn, rookie star Jim Ray Hart.....the Cards had Stan Musial (last season) on first, Mike Shannon at third, Dal Maxville at short, Curt Flood in center, Bill White at first, Tim McCarver catching.

Wow-seeing the game program gives me the chills....

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"playin' the blues without any shoes....."
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Aug 26 09 6:57 PM

I can't remember which was first but roughly about the same time I watched Dave Dravecky,then with the Padres,pitch a 1-0 victory against Pittsburgh and I also watched the Phils defeat the Dodgers though the thing I remember was Pedro Guerreo launching a ball over the center field femce.

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Aug 26 09 7:07 PM

I saw my first game a couple of weeks ago while on vacation in NYC. Yankees v Blue Jays. Nail biting game complete with a few home runs, Derek Jeter hitting a homer for the first score of the game. Blue Jays won it 5-4

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Aug 26 09 7:33 PM

My first game was shortly after the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. Dodger Stadium had not been built yet so they played in the LA Coliseum. We sat in center field and could actually yell out to Duke Snyder. I'm thinking it was 1959.

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Aug 26 09 7:56 PM

DD - at that same time my brother and I were going to lots of baseball games of the Tacoma Giants (Pacific Coast League)..... We watched a lot of those Giant players pass through Tacoma ----- Jimmy Ray Hart - all the Alou Brothers ....

Plus Tacoma had one of the All-time Coast League Players (he would go up to S.F. for a "cup of coffee" every fall)......DUSTY RHOADES.....

"I�m talkin� about: primal jankety-ass rattlin� and buzzin� raw music that sounds like they used some boxes and tubs for drums. No, it ain�t right. But the blues ain�t right. Never has been. Never will be!...." ----- Sherman

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Aug 26 09 10:15 PM

Bill Rigney got a kick out of that pic-he told me many hilarious stories of days in the Coast League and quite a few Dusty Rhoades stories-a west coast legend!

They did a Dodger game at the Coliseum this year to recreate the old days and it was great to watch on TV and I'm sure a kick to attend.

"playin' the blues without any shoes....."
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Aug 26 09 10:17 PM

DD ---- Here's another "Coast Leaguer" of renown ----- Gil Garrido!!! Fantastic Shortstop for the Tacoma Giants who could never make it @ S.F. because he couldn't HIT at the major league level.......I think he's in the PCL Hall of Fame...a wizard with the glove....

"I�m talkin� about: primal jankety-ass rattlin� and buzzin� raw music that sounds like they used some boxes and tubs for drums. No, it ain�t right. But the blues ain�t right. Never has been. Never will be!...." ----- Sherman

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Aug 26 09 11:24 PM

This is fun...a couple things...Dennis...Dusty Rhodes only made to the SF Giants for part of one year...his career ended in 1959.

Bill Rigney...his son, Tom, is a fabulous fiddle player that plays some blues on that thing! My sister is a Tom Rigney stalker.

Rigney in a Giants jersey.That is her photo.

My first game...1958, Seals Stadium, Giants and Dodgers. It was either their 2nd or 3rd game in San Francisco. My friend and I sat in the RF bleachers.

Reading Blues Boss' Pacific Coast League comments...those are the good old days!

The last season (1957) the San Francisco Seals my buddy and I went to over 50 games...the days of the Sunday doubleheader...and grandstand seats for kids...25 cents. The Seals won the PCL pennant that year as a farm team of the Boston Red Sox.
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Aug 26 09 11:34 PM

QUOTE (dick deluxe @ August 26, 2009 02:46 pm)

Boy-I'm older than dirt! In digging through some old shots I found this classic of my bro, me and Dad and Grandpa outside of old Sportsman Park in St Louis in the summer of 1963.

The game was the Cardinals versus the Giants and dig some of the names on the field that day.....Juan Marichal pitching versus Curt Simmonds...Willie Mays, Willie McCovey (playing left!), Orlando Cepeda, Harvery Kuenn, rookie star Jim Ray Hart.....the Cards had Stan Musial (last season) on first, Mike Shannon at third, Dal Maxville at short, Curt Flood in center, Bill White at first, Tim McCarver catching.

Wow-seeing the game program gives me the chills....

Wow, what fantastic memories! Sportsman's Park!!!!!! Stan Musial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My first ballgame was also summer 1963, at Fenway Park in Boston, Red Sox vs. Cleveland Indians.

Jim "Mudcat" Grant pitched (before he got traded to the Twins), Tito Francona played (father of the current Sox manager), Joe Adcock wowed me in batting practice by launching a lot of shots over the Green Monster. And the Red Sox had Yaz, Dick "Dr. Strangeglove" Stuart at 1B, Dick Radatz and Bill Monbouquette pitching, and Frank Malzone at 3B.

I don't remember who won the game, but I'd give anything to have a time machine to experience that day all over again.

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Aug 27 09 2:20 AM

I remember my Daddy taking me to Candlestick as a little girl to see Willie Mays! Great memory.

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Aug 27 09 2:15 PM

QUOTE (BoogieKing @ August 26, 2009 11:24 pm)

This is fun...a couple things...Dennis...Dusty Rhodes only made to the SF Giants for part of one year...his career ended in 1959.

Bill Rigney...his son, Tom, is a fabulous fiddle player that plays some blues on that thing! My sister is a Tom Rigney stalker.

Rigney in a Giants jersey.That is her photo.

My first game...1958, Seals Stadium, Giants and Dodgers. It was either their 2nd or 3rd game in San Francisco. My friend and I sat in the RF bleachers.

Reading Blues Boss' Pacific Coast League comments...those are the good old days!

The last season (1957) the San Francisco Seals my buddy and I went to over 50 games...the days of the Sunday doubleheader...and grandstand seats for kids...25 cents. The Seals won the PCL pennant that year as a farm team of the Boston Red Sox.

Boogie King.......what great memories!!! My Dad used to drop my bother and I at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma, WA on a Sunday for the doubleheader!!! We'd have enough money for a hotdog...pop...maybe peanuts....and a DIME to call home when we needed a ride....

"I�m talkin� about: primal jankety-ass rattlin� and buzzin� raw music that sounds like they used some boxes and tubs for drums. No, it ain�t right. But the blues ain�t right. Never has been. Never will be!...." ----- Sherman

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Aug 27 09 3:48 PM

In 1947 my Uncle Jon-Jon took me to Yankee Stadium, the game was against The Detroit Tigers. Two things I recall are seeing Joe DiMaggio and Uncle Jon-Jon bought me a beer (I was 15 years old).

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Aug 27 09 4:00 PM

QUOTE (Sherman @ August 27, 2009 03:48 pm)

In 1947 my Uncle Jon-Jon took me to Yankee Stadium, the game was against The Detroit Tigers. Two things I recall are seeing Joe DiMaggio and Uncle Jon-Jon bought me a beer (I was 15 years old).

Sherm - my first game was a Pacific Coast League game at Sick Stadium in Seattle (The Rainiers).... Dad took my brother and I.... It was a big deal for us!!!

My Dad always said he was an "all-city 3rd baseman" ------ In a town of 500 people with one team!!!!

"I�m talkin� about: primal jankety-ass rattlin� and buzzin� raw music that sounds like they used some boxes and tubs for drums. No, it ain�t right. But the blues ain�t right. Never has been. Never will be!...." ----- Sherman

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Aug 27 09 8:09 PM

QUOTE (BoogieKing @ August 26, 2009 03:24 pm)

The last season (1957) the San Francisco Seals my buddy and I went to over 50 games...the days of the Sunday doubleheader...and grandstand seats for kids...25 cents. The Seals won the PCL pennant that year as a farm team of the Boston Red Sox.

Boogie King..

I, too, was one of the Christopher Milk kids.

I can't remember which was my first major league game that I went to. I do think that it was at the old Seals Stadium when the Giants moved to S.F..

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dick deluxe

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Aug 27 09 8:38 PM

Tom Rigney and I have been friends and musical colleagues for almost 30 years now. I played hundreds and hundreds of gigs in the Sundogs and recorded "Rigo" with him for the Takoma label many years ago.

In recent years Tom's band has included Danny Caron whom many here will recall as Charles Brown's musical director and guitarist.

Boogie King-if you've got "Rigo" at the station you might dig out the version of "Summertime" I arranged for the boys-a pretty cool recording.

I used to live down the street from the old Seals Stadium in SF-it's now a shopping center with a Safeway. The old bar across the street is still open and much the same as it was in the early 50's when young Bill Rigney and others on the team used to sneak across the street between innings sometimes to sneak a few shots!

Can you imagine the uproar today if anything of that kind were to happen?????

"playin' the blues without any shoes....."
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Aug 27 09 10:47 PM

July 29, 1967 Red Sox vs Twins at Fenway in a twi-night doubleheader. I was 9 years old and went with my father, two uncles, and my brother. I remember when I got out of the car, I caused my Uncle Gordy to spill his beer in his lap, so when he entered the park it looked bad. I recall the Petrocelli and Oliva homeruns in the first game but not much of the Twin's fireworks in the second game(Oliva again, Killebrew, Bob Allison(2), and Ted Uhlaender) which means we probably left early. My brother who was about 28 at the time would have been the designated driver and he was about 6'1" and admitted to weighing about 275 so he wasn't the best fit for those old Fenway seats.
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Tom Rushen

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Aug 27 09 11:13 PM

Wow, Stewball, I should have known that there was a website with vintage box scores! Thanks!

I found my first ballgame, August 18, 1963, Cleveland at Boston, Mudcat Grant vs. Dave Morehead...

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BO...196308180.shtml

A Sunday afternoon ballgame, the weather was beautifully sunny, and attendance at Fenway was only 14,572!!!! (Those were different times for fan interest in the Red Sox...)

When I was a kid, we went to Fenway once a year, but the only other game I remember clearly was a rain-shortened 5 and half inning game on Sunday, August 22, 1965, Detroit Tigers in town, Joe Sparma vs. Dennis Bennett. Attendance on that soggy Sunday? A laughably small 7,272.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BO...196508220.shtml

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Aug 28 09 3:40 AM

QUOTE (dick deluxe @ August 27, 2009 12:38 pm)

Tom Rigney and I have been friends and musical colleagues for almost 30 years now. I played hundreds and hundreds of gigs in the Sundogs and recorded "Rigo" with him for the Takoma label many years ago.

In recent years Tom's band has included Danny Caron whom many here will recall as Charles Brown's musical director and guitarist.

Boogie King-if you've got "Rigo" at the station you might dig out the version of "Summertime" I arranged for the boys-a pretty cool recording.

I used to live down the street from the old Seals Stadium in SF-it's now a shopping center with a Safeway. The old bar across the street is still open and much the same as it was in the early 50's when young Bill Rigney and others on the team used to sneak across the street between innings sometimes to sneak a few shots!

Can you imagine the uproar today if anything of that kind were to happen?????

I like a lot of Rigney's stuff and Danny Caron...they are both great players. I see the old Seals Stadium area every once in a while as my wife's Mom lives a couple blocks away. The old Hamm's Brewery that used to be behind it with the neon glass shaped sign that filled and emptied! We are into "priceless" now!

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Aug 28 09 2:52 PM

My "second round" of baseball was supporting the Seattle Mariners in the old Kingdome....

After my 2nd divorce - and spending way too much time standing at the end of the bar - a good buddy of mine who designed a uniform change for the Mariners took me to a bunch of games in the summer of '87...... Part of his "compensation package" for the work he did was 4 season tickets .... I'll be I went to 30-35 games that summer....... Don't remember much other than the fact that the Kingdome wasn't that great a place for baseball.....and how small the crowds were ----- they'd announce 9,950 or so, and that would include all season ticket holders, atleast half of which never showed.... So, you were watching a mediocre team, in a mediocre stadium that held 60,000+ with about 4,500 of your nearest and dearest friends.....

"I�m talkin� about: primal jankety-ass rattlin� and buzzin� raw music that sounds like they used some boxes and tubs for drums. No, it ain�t right. But the blues ain�t right. Never has been. Never will be!...." ----- Sherman

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dick deluxe

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Aug 28 09 6:17 PM

Great box score site! Here's the one I went to-my 8th Bday present (a few days late but...!)on July 7. I had forgotten Gibson had pitched-seeing both lineups really brings back the chills-Musial had 2 rbi's and he was pretty old by then!box score from 1963

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Aug 28 09 6:21 PM

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The old Hamm's Brewery that used to be behind it

Talk about memories-I lived off of 16th street which runs past Seals on and off for 3 decades. During the punk rock era we squatted for a few months in the Hamm's building in what were once the "Vats". We had the entire run of the building and it was a ton of crazy adventured often fueled by anything you can imagine. Later a rich heiress I knew rented a floor of the building and turned it into a big art studio/party pad-lots of wild parties......*sigh*.........

I did a few gigs with Flipper in the Vats-total chaos!!!!!!!!!!

"playin' the blues without any shoes....."
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