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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