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[GeoPoto]

Originally Posted by Roland 49

The well-known catcher "Strike" González

I don't know if "Strike" Gonzalez is 4-time World Series winner Mike Gonzalez. But here is Mike Gonzalez with Hank Thompson and Herberto Blanco.

Mike Gonzalez was the third base coach (for the last time) in the bottom of the eighth inning of the seventh and deciding game of the 1946 World Series when he may have attempted to stop Enos Slaughter's "Mad Dash". If Gonzalez put up a stop sign, Slaughter ignored it, as he scored the winning run and "dashed" into baseball history.

Gonzalez is also credited with coining a succinct and lasting piece of baseball terminology. Asked by the Giants to scout a winter league player, González judged that the player was outstanding defensively but a liability as a batter. He wired back a four-word scouting report: "Good field, no hit." That phrase is still in use today.

In 1947, Henry Thompson was the first black player to play for the St. Louis Browns. Herberto Blanco was a good example of a "Good field, no hit" player.

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[Jason19th]

Originally Posted by GeoPoto

I don't know if "Strike" Gonzalez is 4-time World Series winner Mike Gonzalez. But here is Mike Gonzalez with Hank Thompson and Herberto Blanco.

Mike Gonzalez was the third base coach (for the last time) in the bottom of the eighth inning of the seventh and deciding game of the 1946 World Series when he may have attempted to stop Enos Slaughter's "Mad Dash". If Gonzalez put up a stop sign, Slaughter ignored it, as he scored the winning run and "dashed" into baseball history.

Gonzalez is also credited with coining a succinct and lasting piece of baseball terminology. Asked by the Giants to scout a winter league player, González judged that the player was outstanding defensively but a liability as a batter. He wired back a four-word scouting report: "Good field, no hit." That phrase is still in use today.

In 1947, Henry Thompson was the first black player to play for the St. Louis Browns. Herberto Blanco was a good example of a "Good field, no hit" player.

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No Strike Gonzales and Mike Gonzales are two different people. Since they were both catchers of the same era they are often confused in American Stories about Cuban baseball. There is an oft repeated story that John McGraw said that he would pay 100000 for Mike Gonzales if he were white. This led to the belief that Mike somehow snuck across the color line. While McGraw did make the statement he was talking about Strike who was a dark skinned black man

[Roland 49]

When I published my last message there were 3 messages: from Travis, from George and from Jason and that was very good, thanks to the 3, because with their opinions we can all know stories and anecdotes, for example George's photo I have not found it seen, I waited until today for more people to publish, but it was not like that, now I will give an explanation of what I know, McGbraw said the following: "If I could paint them even with lime, and they would be worth 100, 000 dollars" that said it In the presence of some people and next to them were Mendez and Strike, and he pointed to both of them, (in Cuba, cal as it is white, is used to paint mainly the ceilings, not the meaning in English, the translator put lime) by Strike I can say that he was considered the best Cuban catcher of all time, he was inseparable from Méndez but also from Bombin Luque and the Almendares pitchers

[GeoPoto]

This is a 1947 photograph of Brooklyn Dodgers star Pete Reiser in full uniform and taking a few hacks in the batting cage before a spring training game in Cuba.

Harold P. "Pete" Reiser. "Pistol Pete". Outfielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1940-1942 and 1946-1948 and for the Cleveland Indians in 1952. 786 hits and 58 home runs in 10 MLB seasons. Phenomenal talent cut down by injuries resulting from reckless play, including MLB-record 11 times taken off the field on a stretcher. 3-time All-Star. 1963 World Series champion. 1941 NL Batting champion. 2-time NL stolen base leader. His best season was 1941 for the Brooklyn Dodgers as he posted a .406 OBP with 117 runs scored in 601 plate appearances.

The reverse of the photograph has a caption: International News Photos. Pete Packs a Wallop. Havana, Cuba . . . . . . During a warm-up game at the Dodger camp, Pete Reiser is shown winding up to hit one in the bleachers (he hopes). Catcher is Homer Howell. The Brooklyn team opens a three-day exhibition series against the Boston Braves here tonight. D.2.28.47.

Homer "Dixie" Howell had a "small" MLB career with 224 hits across 8 seasons, but he was a 1955 World Series champion and played a larger role in MLB history. In 1946, he had just returned from the war and was playing for the Montreal Royals. The 1946 Royals, led by second baseman Jackie Robinson, won the league championship and the Junior World Series, but are famous as the first racially integrated team in "organized baseball" since the 1880s. Howell witnessed Robinson's constant battle against intimidation—especially in the form of brushback pitches.

"I was with Jackie on Montreal", Howell told Roger Kahn in 1953. "The way he was thrown at that year was unbelievable. Unbelievable and disgraceful."

"You never saw anything like it", Howell said in a Los Angeles Times interview published eight months before his 1990 death. "Every time he came up, he'd go down!"

According to Robinson biographer Arnold Rampersad, Howell was one of two Southern-born Montreal players (with Marv Rackley) who personally wished Robinson well on his promotion to the parent Dodgers in April 1947, breaking the baseball color line.

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[Roland 49]

George, Reiser played many times in Cuba in the American Series of La Tropical, now you will see something from the 1941 and 1942 Programs where Reiser's name appears, I took a picture of the programs with my phone, maybe they don't look good.

[GeoPoto]

Outstanding, Rolando! Heckuva "Probable Lineup".