Analyzing Our National Pastime
“It’s like the Kennedy assassination. Everyone I see comes up and tells me where they were and what they were doing when Gibson hit that home run.” The famous home run hit by Dodgers’ Kirk Gibson in the 1988 WS was off of Hall of Famer Eckersley and Dennis is yet to live it down.
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“Anybody who can’t tell the difference between a ball hitting wood an a ball hitting concrete must be blind.” Yogi arguing with an ump about a ball being fair after it hit a concrete outfield wall, but Berra thought it was a homer because it hit a wooden barricade beyond the wall, indicating it as a home run.
“Trying to hit him was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.” The man they called “Pops” explaining how hard it was to hit Sandy Koufax. Even a Hall of Fame slugger like him described the task as next to impossible.