IGT, 8/11, The Return of Hawkman

[Zvon]

Kid Kaboom, Kid Kaboom, don't you just love it?
Kid Kaboom, Kid Kaboom, don't ya just love it?
Kid Kaboom, Kid Kaboom-boom-boom.



I'm old

[Edgy MD]

Until something else works, I'm OK, with Kid Kaboom as a Flores nickname.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Ashie62 wrote: I hope JCL saw that..

I heard it on the radio all statically out in the boonies.

[Frayed Knot]

MFS62 wrote: Heard on WFAN that to make roster room for Hawkman, they "deactivated" Heffner, to send him back to NY for some medical tests. No DL yet.

"Deactivation" is this case meant demotion to the minors.
If the tests reveal an actual injury he'll be DL'd and the demotion will be rescinded but the Mets needed to do it in this order so as to get Niese back on the roster for yesterday.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That was a pretty swift descent from "No. 1 starter out of the ASB" to the minors for The Hef but you gotta admit he earned it.

[Edgy MD]

Look at these Mets, transacting like things matter and stuff.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Zvon wrote: Good game. It looks like we ruined any chance the Snakes had of catching L.A. Lets make it up to them by sweeping the Dodgers.

LOVE this one!

[Edgy MD]

Are those, in fact, Mets and not Giants climbing those steps?

[metirish]

Wanted to comment too on how much I like that picture. Hell of a long walk I imagine.

[Edgy MD]

I'm curious what he's hiding behind that big popup screen. He could have added the graphics on the face of the outfield wall, to the left and right of the windbreaker-clad coachie, but he added this architectural oddity. Unless that wall is really there.

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: I'm curious what he's hiding behind that big popup screen. He could have added the graphics on the face of the outfield wall, to the left and right of the windbreaker-clad coachie, but he added this architectural oddity.

Didn't the original logo have the little ny too?

[Zvon]

Good game. It looks like we ruined any chance the Snakes had of catching L.A. Lets make it up to them by sweeping the Dodgers. LOVE this one!

Me too.

Are those, in fact, Mets and not Giants climbing those steps?

Those are Giants and I'm glad you brought this up. I didn't realize that credit was mandatory.
So let me credit the photographer before he finds me. Thank you Hy Peskin!

Baseball: New York Giants vs Pittsburgh Pirates. Double header.
New York, NY 8/22/1954 MANDATORY CREDIT: Hy Peskin/Sports Illustrated SetNumber: X1617 F32

I'm curious what he's hiding behind that big popup screen. He could have added the graphics on the face of the outfield wall, to the left and right of the windbreaker-clad coachie, but he added this architectural oddity.

That was there. I pity the folks with seats behind that. But they couldn't have sat fans behind that, right?
A more familiar view of the same type of wall is also on the other side of the center field section.

Imagine being one of those two guys off to the right with that fantastic view of Willies catch.

Ceetar wrote: Didn't the original logo have the little ny too?

I believe it did. I used this as the source because it looked old like and painted on. I added the word WIN.

metirish wrote: Wanted to comment too on how much I like that picture. Hell of a long walk I imagine.

And this leads to a question I've been meaning to ask about this photo. There is an identical set of stairs on the other side of the monuments. Are those the correct stairs for the home team to exit through? Did those stairs lead to an area that branched off to the clubhouses, or were they direct to each clubhouse?

& thnx guys. I'm glad you dig that one.

[Zvon]

Found this in my Willie folder. Mays is almost all dressed as he exits the clubhouse (That might answer my question right there). You can see the back of the silly wall. Was that there just for the batters eye deal? If not what the hell was that there for?


OE: The pic must be slanted one way or the other. Did that cutout section of center run downhill?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Casey headed to Mets clubhouse, last home game, 1963




June 1, 1962, Giants at Mets


Pre-California Giants. The home clubhouse was still on the right field side of center.

[Edgy MD]

The whole outfield ran downhill. Leo Durocher said that from the dugout, all he saw was Mays' shoulders and head. And that was certainly an asset Mays used in playing shallow and going back on the ball.

Seems to be running particularly starkly downhill once you hit the well, though, yeah.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I wonder if these two pictures were taken on the same day, seconds apart?

[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I wonder if these two pictures were taken on the same day, seconds apart?

They were. I was able to match several of the fans at the edge of the wall.

[Edgy MD]

Great to see a chair, a hose, and other groundskeeping equipment under the stairs but technically in play.

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: Great to see a chair, a hose, and other groundskeeping equipment under the stairs but technically in play.

If you have to dig around back there, 475 feet from home plate, I think it's a safe bet the guy's scoring anyway. But if I was the home team I'd make sure there was a baseball right under the edge of the stairs for quick-grabbing purposes.

[Edgy MD]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: I wonder if these two pictures were taken on the same day, seconds apart? They were. I was able to match several of the fans at the edge of the wall.

Lady holding the hanky is the giveaway.

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Casey headed to Mets clubhouse, last home game, 1963 June 1, 1962, Giants at Mets Pre-California Giants. The home clubhouse was still on the right field side of center.

Oh, Giants were the visitors there in the Mays photo. Wow. Didn't realize that. So all indications are that I got the wrong stairs. Well, lets keep that to ourselves. Great pics batmags.

Edgy MD wrote: The whole outfield ran downhill. Leo Durocher said that from the dugout, all he saw was Mays' shoulders and head. And that was certainly an asset Mays used in playing shallow and going back on the ball. Seems to be running particularly starkly downhill once you hit the well, though, yeah.

I always thought what Leo said was exaggerated. I guess not. That's pretty crazy.

Edgy MD wrote: Great to see a chair, a hose, and other groundskeeping equipment under the stairs but technically in play. If you have to dig around back there, 475 feet from home plate, I think it's a safe bet the guy's scoring anyway. But if I was the home team I'd make sure there was a baseball right under the edge of the stairs for quick-grabbing purposes.

Brilliant! Reading up on the '69 World Series doing the fake baseball cards I ran into a story that says Hodges grabbed a scuffed ball from a knocked over ball bag in the dugout which he presented to the ump as the shoe polish ball. There are other alternate accounts. I wish Gil were still with us. Oh, the stories he could tell.