Do you do any baseball tributes?

[brickyardkennedy]

George Plimpton's "tribute" to Carl Hubbell. From Plimpton's book, "Out of My League":

"Carl Hubbell with his screwball was a particular hero. I'd read somewhere, that the effect of his screwball, delivered with a violent inward snap of the wrist, put such a strain over the years on his arm that when he stood relaxed, with his arms down at his sides, the palm of his pitching arm faced out. When I stood around at the age of eleven, having read this, I did the same - faced the palm out, hoping that it would be associated with screwball pitching, and not with a malformation of the arm, which is what it looked like. One day my father finally said: 'What's wrong with your arm, son? You fall out of a window?'
'Well, that's from screwball pitching,' I said."

[cliftons8]

At Church picnics when I play the cake wheel, I always play #8 for Joe Morgan and #35 for Darrell Griffith.

Mike

[yoyot1]

I have two dogs, Satchel and Paige.

Very few people recognize the names.

[ChiefBenderForever]

Whenever I eat at Dennys I have a Grand Slam breakfeast.

[Hot Springs Bathers]

I had the chance to name our last cat after Casey Stengel, much like the "Old Perfessor" Casey lived to the ripe old age of 20. Ever since grade school I have always fought to wear the number 7, growing up in the 50s and 60s you can easily guess why. Although I was never much of a baseball player I still have several football jerseys from junior high years thru college with my number 7. I need to add that there was never much of a carry over value of the number to my meager talent level.

[steve B]

Not baseball, but a bicycle mechanic/technician guy I admired died a year or two ago. He was a big fan of the French language, and insisted derailleur wasn't actually french, but a made up english word. since he died I've tried to use his habit of spelling it derailler.

A purchsing guy I used to sell to used POs with a format of xxxxx-33. The company had insisted on a suffix to identify which person wrote which PO. He picked 33 for his to honor Larry Bird.

Steve B