2007-12-13 13:55:36 · 6 answers · asked by Michael A 6 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Yep. I remember Yogi was a bad ball hitter. Didn't matter where you threw it, Yogi would hit it. Stephen, I don't know. Seems the Wee Willie Keelers have it and I remember that name too. O f course I also remember "Harry the Hat Walker." It's kinda like when my hero Mickey Mantle had been out partying all night long and was throwing up in a bucket before the game. No way he was going to play. He was lucky he even found the ball park. Comes later innings and Casey tells him to get a bat. "The Mick" could hardly see and he didn't feel so good. Walks out to the plate, sweat pouring off him, so sick he needed immediate medical attention and wacks the ball out of the park. He barely makes it around the bases and collapses (sits down on the dug-out bench). Fans are cheering and hollering and The Mick turns to a team mate and says, "They don't know hard that really was." From Jim Bouton's "Ball Four", I think. Those ball players didn't know what a steroid was. They where just
2007-12-13 16:57:37 · update #1
good. They played on natural ability.
2007-12-13 16:59:27 · update #2
"They don't know how hard that really was." Sorry Mick, if I didn't get it right.
2007-12-13 17:23:52 · update #3
I've usually seen it attributed to Wee Willie Keeler.
2007-12-13 14:00:07 · answer #1 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Wee Willie Keeler
2007-12-13 22:03:09 · answer #2 · answered by wmwiv 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wee Willie Keeler of the old Baltimore Orioles and New York Highlanders/Yankees.
2007-12-13 22:05:53 · answer #3 · answered by mattapan26 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Harry "the Hat" Walker...From listening to Angel Reports during the 1980's I remember that he was brought in to give personal batting lessons to Dick Schofield and Gary Pettis during spring training in 1984.
2007-12-14 00:00:11 · answer #4 · answered by stephen 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea, but my guess would be the commentator for the Dodgers, Bin Scully.
2007-12-13 22:06:07 · answer #5 · answered by Compton,CA 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably Yogi Berra. He had all sorts of silly sayings with the Yanks.
2007-12-13 21:59:51 · answer #6 · answered by securesafe_man 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋