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Brooks Robinson in 1970 World Series..

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LOOKING BACK AT THE 1914 "MIRACLE" BOSTON BRAVES ...
THE GREATEST COMEBACK IN MLB HISTORY ... 110 YEARS AGO
The players had two more practices at spring training, leaving some of the men stiff and sore. There was more batting practice and manager George Stallings had each pitcher take a turn throwing batting practice. Catcher Hank Gowdy said that some of the young pitchers had good stuff.
After trying out with the Columbus Senators, Gowdy began his professional career in 1908 as a first baseman with Lancaster of the Ohio State League, remaining there for two seasons.
In 1911, John McGraw signed him for the New York Giants and gave him a seven-game tryout that September. With Fred Merkle firmly entrenched as the Giants' first baseman, McGraw advised Gowdy to take up catching if he hoped to remain in the major leagues. The following year he had appeared in only four games when the Giants traded him to the Braves.
Gowdy made the switch to catcher in 1912 but spent most of the season on the bench. In 1913 Stallings, sent him to Buffalo of the International League to hone his skills. There he batted .317, earning a late-season call-up.
In 1914 he became the Braves' regular catcher. He batted .243 during the season but became a star in the World Series against the A's.
In Game #1 Gowdy was 3-for-3 with a single, a double, and a triple. The Braves were down by two runs in Game #3 when Gowdy led off the tenth with a blast into the center-field bleachers. It was the only home run of the Series, and it ignited a rally that tied the score. Then in the 12th, he got his third hit and second double of the game, a bullet to left field to start the game-winning rally. In the Game #4 finale, he went 3-for-4, giving him a .545 average for the Series.
Later, Stallings would state that his mild-mannered backstop was his most valuable player during that season’s miracle run.

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Today In 1953: The Brooklyn #Dodgers open Holman Stadium, part of the historic "Dodgertown" spring training complex in Vero Beach, Florida!

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Wind-milling that sledgehammer in the on-deck circle, Willie Stargell, listed at 6'2", 190 lbs in his early years, looms so much larger in our memories.** While he wasn't the biggest man in baseball, he might have been the most powerful.
His feats of strength were legendary:
• He was the first player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium (with Mark McGwire, Mike Piazza and Giancarlo Stanton the only other players to replicate the feat) – and he did it twice.
• The Pirates called Three Rivers Stadium home for 30 years. In that time, six home runs made the right field upper deck. Stargell launched four of them.
• In the 61-year history of Forbes Field, 18 baseballs cleared the roof. Stargell hit seven of them. No one else had more than one.
• He hit the longest home run ever recorded at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia – nothing too unusual about that, as Stargell owned distance records all over the league. What is unusual is the fact that the Phillies commemorated the blast by marking the landing spot.
Yep. Mike Schmidt’s team commemorated a visiting player’s home run.

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Today In 1963: "Meet the Mets", the official song of the New York #Mets is introduced to the public for the first time!