checking up on UMDB memories

[Guest iramets]

The other day, I read someone's memory on UMDB of a specific game (specific inning, in fact) played in 1968 that I, too, had a sharp memory of, and so I compared my memories to others' here, and I thought this could be interesting, although perhaps it would be rude and contentious on the UMDB site itself. So I'm proposing a game here: go to the UMDB memories site, and find a game that you remember differently, and check out the box score, newspaper accounts, etc. against the memories that people record. It doesn't even have to be from the UMDB: books on the famous relief job Nolan Ryan did in the 1969 NLCS differ on the pitches he threw to strike out Rico Carty.( Some say slider, some say fast ball, and I think some get the count wrong.)

Anything you can do to substantiate with facts a distorted memory of events would go here. it will give you an excuse to go through the memories section, and see if your memory agrees with others'.

Or you could just get a life.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I don't think there's anything wrong with correcting the record in the memories at UMDB, as long as we have something like a source. I think the purpose those memories are, as much as anything, for enhancing the record, not for distorting it or venting or advocating releases.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I agree. If your memory is different from someone else's, there's no reason not to post your own thoughts, especially if you have facts to back them up.
I do generally edit out nasty responses to other posters (and I do see quite a bit of them) mainly because I don't want conversations to develop; it's really not the point of that feature of the site.

[Guest iramets]

Yes, I think we could post there without being contentious or having conversations devolving out of it, but I think that site is not, as Yancy says, about conversation or disagreement. I'm imagining some corrections having an air of challenge to them: I felt that I was being a little snooty and snotty, for example, informing Joel that he couldn't have seen a three run hr hit by someone who had only 1 rbi that day. I could see Joel responding to that fact with a defensive comment, or a challenge to some perceived error in my comment, and then we'd be off. Just though that doing it offsite might result in fewer editing choices for Yancy, is all.

[metirish]

I like nothing more than a former Met players name popping up one day in a thread and then going to read the memories of him,all the better if it's a little known player(to me at least),for me that's what makes UMDB such a great source.

[MFS62]

Here's a memory jogger.
I noticed this in the UMDB:

]October 10, 1963 Mets drafted Jack Fisher from the San Francisco Giants .

I remember that was a "Special Draft" by MLB to help the Mets and Colt45's get more competitive. But I recall that on that day, the Mets also drafted a first baseman who had torn up the California League - hit over .340 with 45 doubles and 100+ RBI. Of course, he never made it to the majors (or the 40 man roster). But can anyone here please provide that player's name?

Later

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Bill Haas.

[MFS62]

Thank you.

Later

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Wow, seven birthdays today:

Born on this date:

* Bob Miller (1939)
* Dal Maxvill (1939)
* Jerry Morales (1949)
* Jeff McKnight (1963)
* Kevin Tapani (1964)
* John Valentin (1967)
* Shawn Estes (1973)