L.M., P-City, TONY and RAFI are the only losers readers visiting this crappy website that still care about beisbol so this post is for them. No brokeback, of course.
What is all of this noise about concerning JOHN JORDAN ‘BUCK’ O’NEIL and his omission from the Major League Basebal Hall of Fame. BUCK must have one of the best rabbis on his home team, because I have never seen the New York Times fellate a Black man this much since they pulled their silver spoons out for MALCOLM GLADWELL’s ballsachs. Although, since MALCOLM is a tragic mulatto I guess that doesn’t really count as Black then does it?
All this liberal boohooing and handwringing is coming from the very same sportswriters that have elected NOT to vote BUCK into baseball’s prestigious Hall of Fame. Well if all of you sage and just writers really wanted this old codger to be able to smell the roses while he was still breathing you would have voted for him. No sense in giving a Black any credit while they are alive anyhoo I guess. Just look at how 3-6-MAFIA acted.
GEORGE VECSEY waxed poetically about how the sky would have opened up and baseball might have finally exorcised all of the ghosts of greatness overlooked and most times outright denied.
GEORGE needs to stop smoking that WHITNEY HOUSTON, or to keep things in a baseball perspective, stop sniffing my man DWIGHT GOODEN’s white pudding. BUCK O’NEIL is a pioneer that’s for sure, and there are many other Negro Leaguers that played the greatest pasttime with verve and skill. The Hall of Fame should recognize all of the Negro League players. For a select few of them skin color was the least of their disabilities.
RONNY ‘TURKEY LEG’ JENKINS
RONALD JENKINS was from a small Tennessee coal mining town. At the age of 16 he lost part of his left leg in a mule cart accident, but that didn’t deter him from pursuing his dream of playing baseball. He fashioned a prosthetic limb for himself made with scrap wood from the dining room table in his parents’ house. He promised his parents that one day he would return to them with a new table so that they wouldn’t have to eat dinner sitting on the floor any longer.
RONNY was well known for his grace in the outfield, but it was his world class speed that would make him a Hall of Fame caliber Negro Leaguer. RONNY set records in the league for stolen bases during 4 consecutive seasons. He averaged more than 3 steals per game in three of those years. It wasn’t unreasonable for RONNY to score from first on an infield ground ball to the pitcher. RONNY would swipe third so often it was renamed ‘Turkey base’
Much fuss was made of the incident where RONNY’s prosthetic leg failed during a game and he had the wherewithall to hop all the way to home plate. RONNY played for the Detroit Stars for twelve years and he came to be regarded as one of the clutch players in the league. RONNY’s smooth style on the field was complemented by his grace off the field. After his retirement he became a local celebrity in the Detroit swingdancing scene.
GMAO
WordPress ate my previous comment . . . Shit.
I just wanted to write that this quick history lesson is amazing. I’m working up a quick post on it right now. Blind, crippled and Black . . . Damn if these guys didn’t have it just “a little” tougher than Buck . . . However, his endurance of liberal blather is Hall of Fame caliber still.
Also, damn if you haven’t been hitting them out of the park lately Dallas. Unlike the shitty Royals, I’ll still go to the games but only for the beer. They lower the prices to 9 bucks for cup in the embarrasing month of September when we offically go 100 games back.
LOL. Great post.
Remember that snl fake documentary on the negro leagues with christopher guest and billy crystal in makeup?
“Beisbol be berry berry good to me”
they dont make ’em like this anymore. its too bad the number of black baseball players is steadily on the decline.
yeah alex but some dope players are holding it down… most of them are on my fantasy team
ryan howard, howie kendrick, jimmy rollins, dmitri young, corey patterson, milton bradley… i cornered the market on black hitters this year.
sadly i don’t have carl crawford…
but yeah there are other guys out there too including some good bats.
pitchers on the other hand… i think you can count all the black pitchers in baseball on one hand. dontrelle willis, darren oliver, tom gordon…. there’s probably a few others but thats all that comes to mind at the moment.
where have you gone bob gibson? a nation turns it’s lonely eyes to you. a woo-woo-woo. a woo-woo yeah.
Ronnie: is that Peg Leg Bates? I read about him (if in fact it is him)