Thursday, July 22, 2010

The Third Shoe Drops

Ralph Houk, the first Yankee manager I ever knew, the Major, died yesterday at age 80.

Great Yankee.

9 comments:

  1. Whoops. At least I didn't call him Ralph Heck (former NYGiants linebacker)

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  2. The Colonel: A great man and a true Yankee.

    I'll be flying at half mast today in his honour.

    (Alphonso will be flying three sheets to the wind, I'm sure. And Frankenburger doesn't give a sheet, as usual.)

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  3. Sam Heck.

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  4. Does anyone realize that Steinbrenners full name was George Michael?

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  5. Houk was cool.
    But I hated it when the players started talking about how much they preferred him to Casey Stengel. I grew up watching Casey winning World Series almost every year, so I thought that really sucked.

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  6. The Major won in '61 and '62, won the pennant in '63, got kicked upstairs and fired Yogi in '64, lost the Series. Then the Yankees sucked.

    Really, come on. What is it that managers get paid for? When they have a great team, they win. When they have a bad team, they lose.

    Somebody point out the difference the manager made. Please. I want to believe.

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  7. Buck Foston says,

    R.I.P.
    Ralphy boy!

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  8. Billy Martin always made a difference.
    Any team that hired him got better at first, then got worse.
    You could look it up.

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