Baseball, trivia , stories from the moon

Date:   7/21/2006 8:03:13 PM ( 18 y ago)

Was this really said?

good one, but did Alvin Dark really say that? or was that a fable? because we know that Gaylord Perry hit that homerun against their state rivals. the la dodgers on the same day that we landed a spacecraft on the moon


In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.


"They'll put a man on the Moon before he hits a homerun" — Giants manager Alvin Dark in 1964, about his feeble-hitting pitcher Gaylord Perry.

Perry would collect his first homer on July 20, 1969, minutes after Apollo 11's lunar module touched down on the Moon.

Pitchers may not remember every home run they give up, but they certainly remember every one they hit. Usually this requires only a very short memory.

Gaylord Perry's first major league home run was a historic one. He was with Alvin Dark's San Francisco Giants in 1968. "I was taking batting practice one afternoon and I was just hitting line drives, I mean line drives. Harry Jupiter, a sportswriter, was watching me and said to Alvin, 'You know, that guy has some power.'

"Alvin laughed. 'Let me tell you something,' he said. There'll be a man on the moon before he hits a home run.'

"So a year later I was pitching against the Dodgers when we got the news that Neil Armstrong had stepped on to the surface of the moon. I came to bat about twenty minutes after that, against Claude Osteen — and hit my first major league home run."
It was at a time when cubs third baseman ron santo , who now has no legs, was clicking his heels from third base to left field after every cubs home win..

the cubs would enjoy a 9 1/2 game lead over the second place team as late as august 9, 1969.. the cubs would be leading in a crucial game when the cubs pitcher dick selma? decked Tommie Agee, agee brushed mimself off and went on a one man rampage, the Cubs would not know what happened. That 9 1/2 game lead would dissappear and the New York Mets would complete a replay of the miracle of coogans bluff

A black cat would jump out of the stands at shea stadium and walk back and forth across the cubs dugout.

a few weeks later a new your daily news headline would say..."look who's number one"

 

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