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| From | "jimsouls" <JIMSOULS@aol.com> |
| Subject | Re: What is Your Favorite Song of 2008 |
| Date | Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:28:47 -0000 |
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Rose did not reach base in the 1980 All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium.
He hit a triple in the 1976 game at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia,
but LaSorda hadn't begun his managerial career yet. It might be that
Rose was playing third and Tommy was coaching third for the Dodgers in
an effort to "fire the team up" (he did that a few times).
My favorite Pete Rose on-field story involves Morganna, baseball's
generously endowed Kissing Bandit. At a 1972 game in Cincinnati, she
satisfied a bet with a friend by bolting onto the field and kissing
Rose. Pete supposedly responded by blurting expletives at her.
In telling the story years later, Morganna said "I tell people my
career started with a bet and Pete's ended with one."
Ah, Morganna. Now there's someone whose bust belongs in Cooperstown.
No one brought more onto the playing field than her - and this was in
the pre-steroids era!
Jim McGuinness
NP: Chuck Brodsky, "The Baseball Ballads"
--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, "Joe Field" <joe@...> wrote:
>
> Little baseball history: the All-Star Game, sometimes know as the
"Midsummer
> Classic", pits the "best" players of the American League against the
"best"
> players from the National League.
>
> The tradition is for the manager of the previous season's World
Series teams
> to manage the All-Star Game the following summer. In 1979, the World
Series
> pitted Chuck Tanner's "We Are Fam-uh-lee" Pittsburgh Pirates against
Earl
> Weaver's Baltimore Orioles.
>
> In 1980, those two managers were mangers for the All-Star Game,
played in,
> get this--- Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. As is the custom, the
All-Star
> manager asks the local manager to be one of his coaches. Tommy
LaSorda was
> then manager of the Dodgers and Pete Rose was on the National League
roster
> of All-Stars.
>
> So it's likely at that game that LaSorda was coaching third base and
Pete
> Rose made it all the way around to third to get that lovely line
from Tommy
> LaSagne.
>
> Now you know the rest of the story.
>
> Joe Field
> Flying Colors Comics <http://flyingcolorscomics.com>
> Concord CA
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Marty Rudnick <mrudnick@...> wrote:
>
> > All-star game?
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >
> > On Jan 19, 2009, at 3:11 PM, bucholtzc@... wrote:
> >
> > "A tangent but reminds me of years ago seeing a clip of Tommy Lasorda
> >> coaching third and talking to Pete Rose who had hit a triple."
> >>
> >> Third base coaches are on the field when their team is batting
-when did
> >> Pete Rose play for the Dodgers? :) (This was probably 1977-79,
when Rose
> >> played third base for the Reds...)
> >>
> >> --Chris
> >>
> >> NP: San Francisco Seals, "Meet Doc Ellis"
> >>
> >
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