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Rickey Henderson was once given a one million dollar check by the A's as a signing bonus. He had it framed and hung it on a wall in his home. At the end of the year the team's accounting department, while trying to balance the books, gave him a call to remind him that it needed to be cashed.
Did you know that I hate the St.Louis Cardinals more than any other professional sports team? If I ever win 400 million dollars I would buy the St.Louis Cardinals then move them to Butte Montana and fold the team up. Twice now the Cardinals have prevented the Brewers from winning the World Series, yes I am saying that if the Brewers would have beaten the Cardinals last year I believe the Brewers would have won the Series. I really wish Ill-will on that entire team!
Did you know that I hate the St.Louis Cardinals more than any other professional sports team? If I ever win 400 million dollars I would buy the St.Louis Cardinals then move them to Butte Montana and fold the team up. Twice now the Cardinals have prevented the Brewers from winning the World Series, yes I am saying that if the Brewers would have beaten the Cardinals last year I believe the Brewers would have won the Series. I really wish Ill-will on that entire team!
I hate Bud Selig more than you hate the Cardinals, and Selig has kept the Brewers from winning more World Series than the Cardinals have.
I bet you also hate Ron Guidry and Pat Burrell, who stopped them in the post season in '81 and '08.
By the way, don't forget it was the Cardinals in 1956 who eliminated the contending Milwaukee Braves on the last weekend of the season.
In Douglas Adams' "Hitchiker's Guide To the Galaxy", the Deep Thought super computer was constructed to detemine the answer to the "Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything."
By the way, don't forget it was the Cardinals in 1956 who eliminated the contending Milwaukee Braves on the last weekend of the season.
Ugh I didn't know that, make it stop! Yeah I think you're right that Selig probably cost the Brewers at least 5 World Series chances by not even fielding a MLB team some years.
1- He and Bump Wills are the only players to hit back to back inside the park home runs. (already mentioned, I know)
2-He was the last active player who played for the Washington Senators
3-He once played both games of a double header( June 25, 1976)and never had the ball hit to him. The weird part was he was playing short stop.
1- He and Bump Wills are the only players to hit back to back inside the park home runs. (already mentioned, I know)
2-He was the last active player who played for the Washington Senators
3-He once played both games of a double header( June 25, 1976)and never had the ball hit to him. The weird part was he was playing short stop.
He also has the longest palindromic name in MLB history, along with people like Eddie Kazak (not his birth name) and Dick and Robb Nen. I wonder why the younger didn't call himself Bob Nen.
Did you know that there have been only a few (I can think offhand of 3) pairs of players whose names are each other's backwards -- Reed/Deer, Redus/Suder, and Resop/Poser. But in the very tiny number of league executives, there was such a pair -- Warren Giles and Bud Selig.
In 2011, the LA Angels ranked fifth in MLB in total home attendance, with over 3-million. But played before the smallest crowds on the road, with 40% of all seats empty when the Angels were in town.
Only two players in the HoF were born in the Mountain Time Zone, and their names come back-to-back in an alphabetical list of HoF players. Killebrew and Kiner.
The Texas Rangers are only the third team since the 1920s to lose the World Series in back to back years to different teams. The Breaves in 91-2 and the Yankees in 63-4 are the only other teams to do that since the Giants accomplished it several times in the John McGraw era.
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