Who the Hell is Harvey Kuenn Spinoff Thread

[MFS62]

For the posting of additional memories of ballplayers mentioned in the WTHIHK thread, without spoiling the flow of that thread.

Even when he first came up, Kuenn looked fat in his baseball card pictures.

Candelaria was from New York, was tall enough to be a basketball player, ugly enough to be a Randy Johnson stand-in, and married a woman much older than he was.

Bob Murphy was always careful to pronounce Red Schoendinst's last name with three syllables. (SHOW-en-dinst) rather than the two (SHANE-dinst) other announcers used.

My wife thought Steve Yeager was hot. When I was a kid, I liked Chuck Yeager.(still do)

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[DocTee]

Candelaria still holds the school's all-time rebound record at NYC's LaSalle High.

[Theoldmole]

The Kuenn for Colavito trade was the only time in baseball history that a batting champ was traded for a home run champ.

[Willets Point]

MFS62 wrote: When I was a kid, I liked Chuck Yeager.(still do)

Me too. I went through an obsession with aviation and space exploration history when I was in Junior High and must have read Yeager's biography 5 times.

[Theoldmole]

Red Schoendienst fought and beat tuberculosis to resume his big league career.

[MFS62]

Willets Point wrote: ="MFS62"] When I was a kid, I liked Chuck Yeager.(still do) Me too. I went through an obsession with aviation and space exploration history when I was in Junior High and must have read Yeager's biography 5 times.

On one wall of the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio, the names of hundreds of aviators are inscribed. But they have the pictures of only four in the center of that exhibit - Wilbur and Orville Wright, Amelia Erhardt(sp?) and Chuck Yeager. If you haven't been there, go. (Its at Wright Patterson AFB, admission free) Its ten times better than the Air Museum in DC. They have at least one of every aircraft that was operational in the Air Force (including all experimental planes) and the "enemies" of those that saw combat. (e.g.- A Bf-109 next to a Mustang and a MIG -15 next to an F-86) They also have every retired Air Force One, including the one that brought JFK's casket back to Washington.

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