Let's let Mel Allen get us all jazzed up for the All-Star Game ...
Actually, I won't see it tonight--(rich) 1977 me is going to the Nina Simone show. But I won't miss a play because, fortunately, Santa Claus brought me one of these for Christmas last year ...
10 Dec 1976, Fri The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) Newspapers.com
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I wonder if you are going to hang in with your Betamax or switch over to VHS like the majority of users?
ReplyDeleteThe main thing I'm going to do in the late 1970's is to get one of those big satellite dishes.
ReplyDeleteWe'll just have to wait and see what kind of deals Ward-Elkins has this and future Christmases.
ReplyDeleteThese are some All-Stars, boy.
ReplyDeleteNational League batting order:
ReplyDelete1. Joe Morgan, second base
2. Steve Garvey, first base
3. Dave Parker, right field
4. George Foster, center field
5. Greg Luzinski, left field
6. Ron Key, third base
7. Johnny Bench, catcher
8. Dave Concepcion, shortstop
9. Don Sutton, pitcher
Reserves: Willie Montanez, first baseman, Atlanta; Jerry Morales, Rick Reuschel, pitcher, and Manny Trillo, second baseman, Chicago; Ken Griffey, outfielder, Pete Rose, third baseman, and Tom Seaver, pitcher, Cincinnati; Juaquin Andujar, pitcher, Houston; Reggie Smith, outfielder, Los Angeles; Ellis Valentine, outfielder, Montreal; John Stearns, catcher, New York; Steve Carlton, pitcher, and Mike Schmidt, third baseman, Philadelphia; John Candelaria and Rich Gossage, pitchers, Pittsburgh; Ted Simmons, catcher, and Garry Templeton, St. Louis; Dave Winfield, outfielder, San Diego, and Gary Lavelle, pitcher, San Francisco.
ReplyDeleteAmerican League batting order:
ReplyDelete1. Rod Carew, first base
2. Willie Randolph, second base
3. George Brett, third base
4. Carl Yastrzemski, center field
5. Richie Zisk, left field
6. Reggie Jackson, right field
7. Carlton Fisk, catcher
8. Rick Burleson, shortstop
9. Jim Palmer, pitcher
Reserves: Ken Singleton, outfield, Baltimore; Bill Campbell, pitcher, Fred Lynn, outfield, George Scott, first base, and Jim Rice, outfield, Boston; Dave LaRoche, pitcher, California; Dennis Eckersley and Jim Kern, pitchers, Cleveland; Jason Thompson, first base, Detroit; Jim Slaton, pitcher, Milwaukee; Larry Hisle, outfield, and Butch Wynegar, catcher, Minnesota; Sparky Lyle, pitcher, Thurman Munson, catcher and Graig Nettles, third base, New York; Wayne Gross, third base, Oakland; Rupert Jones, outfield, Seattle; Bert Campaneris, shortstop, Texas, and Ron Fairly, first base, Toronto.
Managers are Sparky Anderson, with Tom Lasorda and Danny Ozark as coaches, for the National League and Billy Martin, with Alex Grammas and Bob Lemon as coaches, for the American League. Honorary captains are Willie Mays and Joe Dimaggio, and wow! Can't get much bigger than those guys.
ReplyDeleteHot and muggy in Yankee Stadium. It reached 102 degrees in New York on July 19, 1977, Joe Garagiola reports.
ReplyDeletePalmer has already pitched 188 innings for the Orioles in MLB77.
ReplyDeleteGaragiola says that Fisk told him before the game that calling an All-Star Game as a catcher "is just like on the playground, boys--one (finger) is a fastball, two's a curve."
ReplyDeleteCount goes full to the leadoff hitter, Cincinnati's Morgan. Then he does his familiar pump of his back left arm and golfs Palmer's low fastball into the right-field seats. It's 1-0, National League.
ReplyDeleteOh, that's right--this is the game where Jim Palmer got clobbered. It's now 5-0 in favor of the Nationals in the third inning, and Billy Martin has sent out Jim Kern to take over the pitching. Garagiola and Tony Kubek are in awe of the young, hard-throwing Indians pitcher, though Garagiola is concerned "some smart pitching coach is going to get ahold of him and turn him into a 12-game winner by telling him to throw more off-speed stuff." There was a flurry of Jim Kern excitement that pushed through the baseball-card boys of my neighborhood, and I can't help but think this Jim Kern appearance in the All-Star Game was the source of that.
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