OT: Today in 1979...RIP Pops!

[HOF Coach]

 

[McKee Place]

Very dramatic game and HR.

Funny how dark that stadium appeared, at least on TV

 

[FreeportPanther]

It looked like he didn't even swing at that ball, just dropped the bat on it and followed through.
One strong man!

 

[jtownknowitall]

Yesterday in 1979!

 

[wbrpanther]

Yesterday in 1979!

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[wbrpanther]

Very dramatic game and HR.

Funny how dark that stadium appeared, at least on TV

That stadium was a classic dump.

 

[HOF Coach]

That stadium was a classic dump.

Very true and it contributed to the Irsay's reasons for sneaking the Colts out of Baltimore and moving them to Indianapolis.

 

[paulbl99]

Memorial was a dump.
But the Os changed baseball stadiums with Camden and ended the cookie cutter ...best thing to happen to baseball in half a century.

 

[mbe 34]

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Thanks
Stargell was my all time favorite Pirate.
I got a big picture of him and Clemente in my man cave
What a magical year for Pittsburgh fans.
We were the center of the sports universe.

Hail to Pitt !

 

[paulbl99]

He could hit some “prodigious blasts”

there was no doubt about it....

 

[fairgambit]

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Willie was a class act. I met him once (spoke for maybe 2 or 3 minutes) and he could not have been nicer. I got a personal autograph which I hope I still have. I put it away years ago and when I did, I said to myself, "I'll put it here so I can remember exactly where it is." Of course, I haven't got a clue now.

 

[PittFan540]

As Bob Prince used to say, Chicken on the Hill with Will!

 

[McKee Place]

Willie the prime guy of course but lots of unexpected guys contributed in that series ... Manny Sanguillen, Jim Rooker, Jim Bibby. I think Phil Garner hit .500 or something crazy.

 

[Somerset Panther]

He could hit some “prodigious blasts”

there was no doubt about it....

He was a man with Popeye forearms. Saw him hit a walk off over the right field roof at Forbes circa 1969-70. Then not long after that hit a bomb going oppo over the huge scoreboard in left. That was a feat. It was 365 down the line!! Wow.

 

[paulbl99]

He was a man with Popeye forearms. Saw him hit a walk off over the right field roof at Forbes circa 1969-70. Then not long after that hit a bomb going oppo over the huge scoreboard in left. That was a feat. It was 365 down the line!! Wow.

Saw McCovey and Pops clear the roof...Those were a couple blasts.

When listening to the radio,when you heard that loud hard crack you knew you could kiss it goodbye

 

[Fk_Pitt]

Willie was a class act. I met him once (spoke for maybe 2 or 3 minutes) and he could not have been nicer. I got a personal autograph which I hope I still have. I put it away years ago and when I did, I said to myself, "I'll put it here so I can remember exactly where it is." Of course, I haven't got a clue now.

That’s good to hear. People in the media say that Pops knew how to play the game and was a real jerk when the cameras and tape recorders weren’t rolling. And of course, there’s the other thing...that he was nicknamed Pops for being the guy that introduced and provided the pills for the players.

 

[pitts36]

As a young boy living in Baltimore that series made me a Pirate fan for life , as for Stargell me and my dad met him at a topps in sports banquet in 1980 and he refused to sign a ball for me and as a young fan and that sucked .