OT: Did you catch the pilot episode of Pitch

[peterb69]

I'm curious to know who Tom C played against in the Big East that is now in the Hall of Fame. My guess is that it's Biggio but he played at the end of the 80's.

[btcarfagno]

Originally Posted by peterb69

I'm curious to know who Tom C played against in the Big East that is now in the Hall of Fame. My guess is that it's Biggio but he played at the end of the 80's.

Correct. Both he and Mo Vaughan and John Valentin. Actually the best hitter on the team was Martese Robinson. I actually played them when I was 16. Their field at Seton Hall back then was horrible and flooded easily. That day my American Legion team was practicing on our field in South Orange when this bus pulled up and about 12 members of the Seton Hall team got out. They ended up scrimmaging us. Robinson and Valentin were not there but Biggio and Vaughan were. I struck out Biggio but Vaughan hit a ball so hard off me that I ducked (cowered more like)...didn't get up until it sailed over the center field fence some 400 feet away. Lucky I didn't soil myself.

Tom C

[btcarfagno]

By the way...the same field I played and practiced on in South Orange...the one I scrimmaged the Seton Hall team on...had played host some 58 years earlier to Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, as shown on this signed ball.



Pretty neat.

Tom C