BATTER UP!

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Gret photos guys!
...any piks of Leo Durocher's brass knuckles?

 

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Great photos guys!
...any piks of Leo Durocher's brass knuckles?

"Buy now" this card and we'll included
this neat item that we are sure you will
treasure for a lifetime".


(Compliments from the "BFM")

 

[LizzieMaine]

Here's Lippy, fourth from left, during his 1946 trial for the brass-knuckle beating of a fan by the name of John Christian during a game at Ebbets Field the previous season. Christian, a recently-discharged veteran, was sitting in the upper deck over the Dodger dugout, obscenely heckling the Brooklyn players in a loud, booming voice. After a few innings of this, Durocher sent Joe Moore, the big slope-browed fellow at far right and a notorious "special security officer" at the ballpark, to fetch Mr. Christian down to a small room under the stands for a private discussion. According to Christian, Moore then held him while Durocher worked him over with knuckles. Christian received a broken jaw and cuts and contusions about the head, was refused medical treatment by the nurse on duty at the ballpark first aid office, and proceeded straight to the nearest police station to swear out a warrant for Durocher and Moore's arrest.

They were acquitted of all charges after legendary Dodger fan Hilda Chester testified on the witness stand that "Christian called me a c**ks*****r, and Leo came to my defense." Dodger fans contributed readily to a fund to pay Durocher's legal bills, but the ball club ended up having to pay over $6700 to settle a civil suit filed by Christian in the wake of the acquittal. Branch Rickey was not amused by this.

 

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"Buy now" this card and we'll included
this neat item that we are sure you will
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(Compliments from the "BFM")

A real Louisville slugger!!!

 

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Without a doubt he “packed a wallop”!

Life magazine ~ May 6, 1946 issue.

 

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I would have liked to have prosecuted Durocher for that felonious assault.

 

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I would have liked to have prosecuted Durocher for that felonious assault.

Stand in line and wait with the others.

Ty Cobb hearings are now in session!

 

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Both Durocher and Cobb were a bit distaff to normal, callous beyond cruelty.

 

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Both Durocher and Cobb were a bit distaff to normal, callous beyond cruelty.

No problemo !

Here comes da judge!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Although, to be fair to Cobb, many of the incidents which he supposedly committed were, in fact, made up out of whole cloth by Al Stump, the corrupt freelance writer who ghosted Cobb's 1961 autobiography, and wrote a second, even more scurrilous book in the 1990s. In addition to creating a great many fictitious incidents concerning Cobb, Stump also forged a blizzard of "Cobb memorabilia" which has infested the sports-collectible market for the past fifty years, including forged "Cobb diaries." The guy who forged Hitler's diary had nothing on Stump -- and Stump got away with it, with the forgeries not revealed until after his death.

One more interesting side note on the Durocher-Christian affair. It seems that Joe Moore's son-in-law was a Mafia figure named Thomas Eboli, aka Tommy Ryan -- a rising power in the Genovese crime family. Branch Rickey tried to get Moore to take the full blame for the beating in order to get Durocher off the hook, "for the good of the team," but Officer Moore invited Mr. Rickey to perform an impossible anatomical feat. Rickey, knowing he was completely out of his element in dealing with such colorful personalities, immediately pulled in his neck.

 

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Poor Ty, such a pleasant guy!

 

[LizzieMaine]

One strory that Stump indisputably didn't make up was the one about Cobb going into the stands in New York and beating up a fan who turned out to be an amputee. It happend on May 15, 1912 at Hilltop Park, the victim was a man named Claude Lucker, who had lost a hand in a factory accident, and Cobb drew a ten day suspension for the assault from league president Ban Johnson. The Tigers protested the suspension by staging a wildcat strike, refusing to play the scheduled May 15th game against the Athletics. Tiger management refused to forfeit the game, however, and at the last minute recruited a team of random amateurs from Philadelphia sandlots, suited them up, and sent them out to play. The A's pounded this "team," 24 to 2.

It didn't end there -- the Tigers refused to play the next game, as well, and this time management couldn't find any willing "substitute players," nor was Connie Mack willing to have his team participate in any such a farce as the previous day's game had been. With neither team willing to play, the game had to be cancelled. The entire Tiger team was then suspended and fined $50 for each day they refused to play -- which finally broke the strike.

Cobb wasn't the blood-soaked fiend he's often portrayed as, but he was no angel, either.

 

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"Unopened 1910 Sweet Caporal Cigarette Pack still has the factory sealed cellophane/wax paper wrapping."
T206 era Tobacco card.

 

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One strory that Stump indisputably didn't make up was the one about Cobb going into the stands in New York and beating up a fan who turned out to be an amputee. It happend on May 15, 1912 at Hilltop Park, the victim was a man named Claude Lucker, who had lost a hand in a factory accident, and Cobb drew a ten day suspension for the assault from league president Ban Johnson. The Tigers protested the suspension by staging a wildcat strike, refusing to play the scheduled May 15th game against the Athletics. Tiger management refused to forfeit the game, however, and at the last minute recruited a team of random amateurs from Philadelphia sandlots, suited them up, and sent them out to play. The A's pounded this "team," 24 to 2.

It didn't end there -- the Tigers refused to play the next game, as well, and this time management couldn't find any willing "substitute players," nor was Connie Mack willing to have his team participate in any such a farce as the previous day's game had been. With neither team willing to play, the game had to be cancelled. The entire Tiger team was then suspended and fined $50 for each day they refused to play -- which finally broke the strike.

Cobb wasn't the blood-soaked fiend he's often portrayed as, but he was no angel, either.

Once again, truth is stranger than fiction. If someone wrote all that ⇧ as a short story, you wouldn't believe it could really happen.

 

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Cuban Babe (Ruth): The Story of Seven Cubana Women in Professional ...

 

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I grabbed three Armour hot dogs downstairs a few minutes ago because of this thread.

 

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I grabbed three Armour hot dogs downstairs a few minutes ago because of this thread.

Girlfriend is traveling to see her parents and I am going to watch all three Yankee-Sox games Thursday-Saturday because of this thread and I made sure the cupboard is stocked with peanuts, Crackerjacks, ice-cream, soda and beer - my baseball go to snack eats.

 

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