Baseball Passings, 2008

[Guest Edgy DC]

Seeing the byline "John Heyman, Sports Illustrated" is about as telling as it gets. It's like Ted McGinley took up sportswriting.

Check out how the energy stored in his coiled up left arm has warped the time-space continuum around the ball.

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[Guest Edgy DC]

Roe is an interesting case. A weak 1954 ended his career right before the gilded year of 1955. I wonder if he retired outright or lost his job in camp. Maybe it was Koufax --- a similar model then at 19 of a hard-throwing wild lefty --- who knocked Roe off the roster, the Dodgers forced to carry him under bonus baby rules.

[Met Hunter]

I remember as a kid seeing a picture in a yearbook of the A's scoreboard. It read: The Oakland A's colors are California Gold, Kelly Green, and Vida Blue.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

At some point in the early 90s I guess they started phasing out action covers in favor of portraits, and as you said trying to cram the entire table of contents onto the cover. The whole thing became less about moments athletes provided us and more about marketing of their personailities.

[G-Fafif]

Finley wanted Vida to change his name to True, Vida has said. "The newspaper boys will call you True Blue."

Because Vida wasn't an interesting enough name.

[Benjamin Grimm]

And Vida said he'd do it only if Finley changed his name to "True O. Finley."

[G-Fafif]

Or perhaps True Lee Insane.