Why is Phil Rizzuto in the HOF?

tedzan · #1 04-19-2016, 08:44 AM

Joe and Dan

Thanks for the kind words. When you get to be my age, it's amazing how the memory of those years are clear in your mind. The mind regresses back to your youth.

Joe....are you old enough to remember Olympic Park in Irvington ?

TED Z
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vintagesportscollector · #2 04-19-2016, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by tedzan

Joe and Dan

Thanks for the kind words. When you get to be my age, it's amazing how the memory of those years are clear in your mind. The mind regresses back to your youth.

Joe....are you old enough to remember Olympic Park in Irvington ?

TED Z
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HA!...I was going to ask you about Olympic Park too Ted, how ironic. No, it closed in '65, right before I was born. My father (probably your age) remembers it well. Chancellor Ave and 42nd street

. When I was at a garage sale two years ago I picked up this ticket for ten cents.

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Peter_Spaeth · #3 04-19-2016, 11:31 AM

If someone mentioned this already sorry to repeat, but he should be in for the middle section of Paradise by the Dashboard Light alone.

glynparson · #4 04-19-2016, 11:40 AM

IMHO some things/people are bigger than numbers or stats. Phil Rizzuto is one of those players. I have no problem with putting a very good player who was a great ambassador for the game into the hall of fame. Oh yeah he was also one hell of a winner on the field.

Peter_Spaeth · #5 04-19-2016, 11:41 AM

It's hard for me to see why Rizzuto should be in, but not Wills.

Interesting old column from the NY Times.
The author did not talk to Ted it appears.

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/15/sp...me-432087.html

bbcard1 · #6 04-19-2016, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

It's hard for me to see why Rizzuto should be in, but not Wills.

Interesting old column from the NY Times.
The author did not talk to Ted it appears.

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/15/sp...me-432087.html

The difference of being someone who is liked and popular with the media and someone who is perceived if not in fact a little bit of a dick. I met Maury a couple of times including interviewing him and found him to be a nice well mannered man. There are those who knock his career stats, but he was also a revolutionary and that should account for something.

Peter_Spaeth · #7 04-19-2016, 04:38 PM

One of the most amazing stats I have seen is stolen base leaders for 1962. In the NL, Wills led with 104. Aparicio led the AL with 31.

Yoda · #8 04-19-2016, 11:41 AM

Ted, I am embarrassed to say that I have forgotten Ms. Rizutto's first name, but it would have been in the mid 60's when I was going to Union College in Schenectady, NY and she was attending Skidmore in nearby Saratoga Springs. We didn't go out for long, but I remember her as a sultry Italian beauty.

vintagewhitesox · #9 04-20-2016, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

If someone mentioned this already sorry to repeat, but he should be in for the middle section of Paradise by the Dashboard Light alone.

And Seinfeld

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