Alright, who’s next? The hits keep coming.Tim McCarver, big league catcher and broadcaster, dies at 81
Tim McCarver, the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who during 60 years in baseball won two World Series titles with the St. Louis Cardinals and had a long run as one of the country's most recognized, incisive and talkative television commentators, died Thursday. McCarver's death...www.yahoo.com
When I was a young boy and more of a baseball fan, I always liked him as a player.....
Except for the last 3-5 years of his broadcasting career. Must've been reading his own press clippings.
He caught the Greatest lefthander ever. Steve Lefty Carlton.Tim McCarver, big league catcher and broadcaster, dies at 81
Tim McCarver, the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who during 60 years in baseball won two World Series titles with the St. Louis Cardinals and had a long run as one of the country's most recognized, incisive and talkative television commentators, died Thursday. McCarver's death...
When I was a young boy and more of a baseball fan, I always liked him as a player.....
Too many good ones leaving us. How about a scumbag biting the dust! I will go for Putin or the moron from N. Korea...Alright, who’s next? The hits keep coming.
Before that McCarver was Bob Gibson's catcher in St. Louis. If I had to win one game, I'd take Gibby over Lefty every day of the week.
Sandy Koufax and Randy Johnson might disagee, Warren Spahn, too.
Surely, but Carlton in 1972 was as good as anyone ever got. I’m going to try to figure out which 1-0 game I saw him win that year, get back to you.
Branch Rickey once said that if he had to pick one player for a full 154-game season he’d pick Wagner. “But for the game today, Ty Cobb.” For the game today, I’d pick Gibson.
Probably because this incident says more about Sanders than it does about McCarver.
Another favorite McCarver story of mine was when he was younger, he went out to the mound to talk to Bob Gibson who then told him to get back behind the plate, and said the only thing you know about good pitching is that you can't hit it.
It absolutely does. I don’t dislike Sanders, but I can’t say I like him either. That incident was strange and awkward. Childish on Sanders end.
Yeah, Halberstam told this story in “October 1964.” Gibson hated having McCarver coming to the mound.
Didn’t like either of them so I was kind of glad they got into a childish little battle.
I look up the best single seasons by a MLB pitcher and the lists are obviously biased. Several of the top 10 had an ERA well over 2.0. Example in 2002 Randy Johnson was 24-5 with a 2.32 ERA.
Great story.
Sandy Koufax in his LAST year
Gibson had 28 complete games and 13 shutouts that year. Along with 268 strikeouts. I think that puts him ahead of the others. At least it does in my book.
If memory serves me, Gibson was so dominant that year MLB lowered the mound in response.
It wasn’t just Gibson. McLain won 31 games that year.
Only Gibson and McCarver are dead, but I get your point. There’s really nothing going on in football. Pitchers and catchers are reporting. What’s wrong with a little baseball nostalgia?
No doubt, Gibson was one of the all time greats. But Mickey Lolich never seems to get his due. He pitched the '68 game 7 WS on 2 days rest and out pitched Gibson in that game. Lolich gave up a total of 5 runs in 27 innings, as did Gibson, was 3-0, and the series MVP.
