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As one who has spent his career studying the history of American poetry, I applaud you! You missed your calling in philosophy! 🧐
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Obscure today,
I led my leagues in many things, And after my heyday I even snagged a couple of rings. At my best I was more than fit for the Hall, At my worst, I could still tell a strike from a ball. |
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I want to say Dinneen, particularly because of that last line, but I don't know what the couple of rings refer to. I had to look it up, but he has just the one World Series title, and that was during his heyday it seems. Maybe he married twice? Or do I just have the wrong guy?
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Sherry Magee?
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Magee was all NL. Didn't Ed Walsh umpire briefly?
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Peter: He also had a great American Association career after MLB.
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Eddie Rommel? He led the AL in eight categories between 1921 and 1928, was on the A's World Series winning teams of 1929 and 1930 even though he didn't play in the 1930 Series, had Hall Of Fame worthy years in 1922 and 1925, and then was an umpire for twenty plus years.
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One minor correction that I hope has not been confusing.
The subject played in more than one league but was only a league leader in one. |
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Cliff,
That is a brilliant deduction, well done! My guy is someone else but Cliff is a winner in my book. Another clue, this one a giveaway: Why not more stories? I led the NL in eight categories! My league record stood for 34 years. In deserted West Side bars one still hears: 147 in 11! |
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I didn't guess the right guy and I'm not a good riddler, so I will defer again.
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That's quite a compliment. Thank you.
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"I nearly left my heart at the edgewater, but not in San Francisco
I both got the lead out and got to lead off thereafter and remain winless in the Fall." Extra credit for the one word clue that could replace the paragraph above.
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RAUCOUS SPORTS CARD FORUM MEMBER AND MONSTER FATHER. GOOD FOR THE HOBBY AND THE FORUM WITH A VAULT IN AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION FILLED WITH WORTHLESS NON-FUNGIBLES 274/1000 Monster Number Last edited by frankbmd; 02-22-2018 at 12:34 PM. |
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Edgewater between US and Canada...where he literally left his heart. Got the "lead out" by taking out a razor on the train, then "lead off" the bridge after getting kicked off the train. Then went over the "Fall" (Niagara Falls), although I'd say the falls defeated him on that one. ETA - Ok well Charlie probably got that one, but his was morbid also!
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Natural?
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Waitkus right, but natural wrong.
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Wrong
Wrong As one of the Phillies in 1950 he was one of the Whiz Kids who were swept the Yankees in the World Series in 1950 so he never won a game in the fall. Since he was the only Phillie that was shot, an appropriate unique clue for this thread would have been WHIZBANG. ![]() ![]() The next clue belongs to Mr. Allen. ![]() Tim still has an unsolved poem as well.
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RAUCOUS SPORTS CARD FORUM MEMBER AND MONSTER FATHER. GOOD FOR THE HOBBY AND THE FORUM WITH A VAULT IN AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION FILLED WITH WORTHLESS NON-FUNGIBLES 274/1000 Monster Number Last edited by frankbmd; 02-22-2018 at 07:32 PM. |
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That is clever, Frank.
I hate to tell you, though: you seem to be living in an alternate (and preferable) universe in which the Whiz Kids swept the Yankees in 1950, when in ours, they were swept BY the Yankees. Wishful thinking, I guess... Tim |
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) I will then step back in and furnish the next question. Until then, good luck to everyone trying to figure out the tough one from Tim!
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