It was one in a million.
Babe Ruth, pointing at the bleachers.
"Win one for the Gipp"
"THIS IS WHAT WE TRAINED FOR" (as they run up the tunnel with Lou Gehrig, in his prime... Yankee Stadium)
"Cinderella Story"
"Hoosiers", the movie.
NOW - Watch and learn youngsters.... baseball is a terrible, violent pastime for a True Fan.
My mother DIED in 2009 at age 92, but never once - not ONCE saw her beloved Cubs in the World Series. That was the most painful thing I've ever experienced as a fan... and if you've never seen an old man cry till his granddaughter calls the doctor....
You aren't old enough to know the glory - that is "The American Pasttime"
Here it is: CAUTION - TRIGGER WARNING - VIOLENT BIRD DEATH (pitched ball)
Direct link to original narrative play-by-play compilation: https://youtu.be/J2E2cLwlZxU
PEOPLE - IN A COVID, FAN-FREE MOMENT, THIS SUMMER.... DURING A FEATURELESS BORING NON-SEASON, IT JUST HAPPENED AGAIN.
Now, as the only video is terrible due to no professional camera angles, allow me to offer the play by play.
"The Twin's pitcher readies himself, he's young... without a crowd he's not exhibiting the nervous twitch that we've all learned means that nasty breaking knuckler he's paid 11 million a year to throw."
"I'm calling it John" (Voice of Howard Cosell, freshly reanimated from his immaculate corpse, and on his way to the Vatican for ordination as a Catholic "incorruptible" Saint of the Glorious Diamond in the Sun).
Jesus is a football fan, but The Lord Above, below and beneath the emerald dirt, the field of honor.... GOD is a baseball fan.
The American game.
The windup..... THE PITCH...…. THE CROWD SCREAMS!!!!!!
Howard you Jewish BASTARD you CALLED IT!! (Being retired now from the press box for 51 years, cancel culture is not an issue for "Johnnie Boy" Hubertz of the McMillan Park Jim Kelley Wildcat squad.
Sweating like a 6th grader, 10 year old Johnnie jumps to his FEET. OMG.
I was there you see - and so you were.
The pitch was in Minneapolis, just a couple of weeks ago.
The pitcher was named Floyd.
The God Damned bird that finally made the fatal mistake we've waited 139 years for (founding year, Ku Klux Klan/John Birch Society)
The God Damned bird THIS time, was a white is right bastard named JIM CROW.
PEACE FOR GEORGE.
