Thursday, July 22, 2010

The Third Shoe Drops

Posted by el duque at 7:24 AM

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

Great Yankee.

9 comments:

Joe said...

fyi, he was 90.

July 22, 2010 at 9:46 AM
el duque said...

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

July 22, 2010 at 10:06 AM
Whitey Fraud said...

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.)

July 22, 2010 at 11:04 AM
alphonso is right said...

Sam Heck.

July 22, 2010 at 11:10 AM
Michael Bluth said...

Does anyone realize that Steinbrenners full name was George Michael?

July 22, 2010 at 4:52 PM
Joe De Pastry said...

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.

July 22, 2010 at 5:01 PM
JM said...

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.

July 22, 2010 at 10:35 PM
Anonymous said...

Buck Foston says,

R.I.P.
Ralphy boy!

July 23, 2010 at 4:44 PM
Joe De Pastry said...

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

July 23, 2010 at 6:15 PM

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