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This game had to be one of my favorites games
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Bob4Health
Aug 14, 2018, 4:26:34 PM8/14/18
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Who remembers this game?
Who watched it?
I did.
This had to be the greatest battery in MLB history.
And we got to see them play for the METs for one game together.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN196505050.shtml
Who watched it?
I did.
This had to be the greatest battery in MLB history.
And we got to see them play for the METs for one game together.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN196505050.shtml
Bob4Health
Aug 14, 2018, 4:45:58 PM8/14/18
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Here are Berra's comments on this.
“Hitting is timing and pitching is upsetting time,” he said. National League hitters were upset by Spahn nearly every time they faced him.
His last season, 1965, was split between the New York Mets and the San Francisco Giants. Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra came out of retirement briefly and caught one game pitched by Spahn, whose nickname was ‘Hooks,’ not because of his curveball, but because of his beak-like nose.
After the game in which he caught Spahn, who was 44 to Berra’s 40, Berra said, “I don’t think we were the oldest pitcher-catcher battery of all time, but we were definitely the ugliest.”
The ugliest thing about Spahn to hitters was the assortment of pitches delivered at different speeds and different locations, never the same speed or the same location to any hitter during an at-bat.
“Hitting is timing and pitching is upsetting time,” he said. National League hitters were upset by Spahn nearly every time they faced him.
His last season, 1965, was split between the New York Mets and the San Francisco Giants. Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra came out of retirement briefly and caught one game pitched by Spahn, whose nickname was ‘Hooks,’ not because of his curveball, but because of his beak-like nose.
After the game in which he caught Spahn, who was 44 to Berra’s 40, Berra said, “I don’t think we were the oldest pitcher-catcher battery of all time, but we were definitely the ugliest.”
The ugliest thing about Spahn to hitters was the assortment of pitches delivered at different speeds and different locations, never the same speed or the same location to any hitter during an at-bat.
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