I'm friends with the guys down at Hollywood Collectibles...when I was there today they told me that they kept having to give Dontrelle cough drops...he wasn't feeling well...I'm not sure if anyone knew this or said it but I figured I'd post it...

I'm friends with the guys down at Hollywood Collectibles...when I was there today they told me that they kept having to give Dontrelle cough drops...he wasn't feeling well...I'm not sure if anyone knew this or said it but I figured I'd post it...

when , yesterday ?

hasnt been said... thanks mk

No problem...

 

 

He told me this today...

Yea, I was at the signing the other day....and when i went up to shake his hand he seemed kind of sick....juss the look of him.

 

prob. nothing to be concerned about

he probably caught it in chi town since it was supposedly cold there that night.

he probably caught it in chi town since it was supposedly cold there that night.

LOL

NO we cant make Xcuses 4 the D.train he just got D-Railed lol.....

NO we cant make Xcuses 4 the D.train he just got D-Railed lol.....

hey Odom, nice signature! This one is much better than the ones before You can also include Cool Papa Bell, Turkey Stearnes, Cristobal Torriente and Martin Dihigo. All those were also much better, but I guess we would never know...

wow you know ya s*** to... lol im only 18, but unlike these youngsters today i actaully gave up the time to watch important Doucumentreys on these guys...

 

Cool papa would have prob stole a 150 bases...

 

with the list you named ya those guys were great as well...

 

cant 4 get about Satchel Page oldest rookie to eva play didnt he lead the indians to the 48 series???? he would have prob been the best pitcher eva if we had seen em at 21 years old and not 42..... he was dominating people at 42 man!!!!!

 

AMAZING.....

 

reason i pick Josh was well u know Bonds came out a week ago Disrespecting da Babe...

supposedly Josh Gibson hit one out of Yankee Stadium

i heard that too Ramp..... Sad thing is we just wont eva know man.....

 

Bonds will break Ruths Record in 2 years Arrons record in 3 years if he can keep at pace of what he is doing now, and lookin at his work ethic he most likely will...

 

than A.rod will break Bonds record, and Puljos will break A.rods record..... lol its a cycle that wont end.....

 

there are some real Baseball Studs out there, yo you went to HR Derby i bet you enjoyed watching Puljos MOON SHOTS

yea, Pujols was incredible, as was Giambi....

 

Rondell White was hitting the ball the furthest in BP though

rondell?? huh, i wouldnt have guessed that, cool

hey Odom, nice signature! This one is much better than the ones before You can also include Cool Papa Bell, Turkey Stearnes, Cristobal Torriente and Martin Dihigo. All those were also much better, but I guess we would never know...

the all negro league days.

 

 

you can throw Luis Tiant Sr. in there too (by all accounts a better pitcher than his son) and Jose de la Caridad Mendez "the black diamond", this guy pitched a couple of shutouts against the yankees, strking out Ruth and Gherig.

cant 4 get about Satchel Page oldest rookie to eva play didnt he lead the indians to the 48 series???? he would have prob been the best pitcher eva if we had seen em at 21 years old and not 42..... he was dominating people at 42 man!!!!!

Not only that. Did you know he was the starting pitcher for the first Miami Marlins in the 50's? Yes, there was a team named Miami Marlins that played, I believe, in AAA at the Bobby Maduro Stadium (named after the Cuban owner and also the person who built the stadium) or Miami Stadium as it was known later. Satchel Paige was like 50 and he kept winning games... The stadium existed until a few years ago, but it was abandoned and without maintenance. The current Marlins were going to buy it to transform it into a training facility, but this was in 1999-2000 when they had even less money than today and the asking price was too much for them. Even though by standards that's what you would pay today for a stadium in such a bad shape. The Miami Marlins existed only for three years I think and were later moved to Puerto Rico...

 

you can throw Luis Tiant Sr. in there too (by all accounts a better pitcher than his son) and Jose de la Caridad Mendez "the black diamond", this guy pitched a couple of shutouts against the yankees, strking out Ruth and Gherig.

 

You can throw a lot of people there too. The vast majority of players in the negro leagues (such an infamous name btw) played in Cuba during those years simply because they were not allowed to play in MLB and Cuba never objected. So, for almost every black American star you can mention, you can also find his stats when they played in Cuba. BTW, Jose de la Caridad Mendez was 44 and 2 in a one year tour of the States... thought that would be worth mentioning.

 

And keeping it up with history, I am including a few facts. If you guys are interested, you can go to the Negro League Baseball Player Association web page to check all these players. Some of these went on to become major leaguers.

 

MARTIN DIHIGO

May 24, 1905- May 20, 1971

 

 

"Dihigo was the best all around baseball player I've ever seen," Baseball Hall of Fame member Buck Leonard.

 

The Polo Grounds hosted the Negro League's New York Cubans, whose roster included the most versatile player to ever play in the Negro Leagues, Martin Dihigo (#17). The tall, lanky Cuban-born Dihigo was a star in many positions. "He was the only guy I ever saw, who could play all nine positions, manage, run and switch-hit." said Johnny Mize, the Hall of Fame first baseman who finished his career with the Yankees and once played for a team Dihigo managed in the Dominican Republic Winter League in 1943.

 

Known as "El Maestro" in Mexico and "El Immortal" in Cuba, Dihigo began his U.S. career as an 18-year-old second baseman for the Cuban Stars. After five years he moved on to the Homestead Grays, and had short stints with the Philadelphia Hilldales, the Baltimore Black Sox, and the New York Cubans.

 

He was a superb pitcher who dominated on the mound. In fact, Dihigo is credited with the first no-hitter in Mexican League history and when he wasn't pitching he regularly started in the outfield or infield and batted near the clean-up spot.

 

But in the decades before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier after World War II, Dihigo could not play in the major leagues. Instead, he played in the Negro leagues, mostly for the New York Cubans (his eventual ticket to Cooperstown) when he wasn't playing in Cuba or elsewhere in Latin America.

Dihigo was arguably the greatest Cuban ballplayer of all time. His speed, size, and strong throwing arm made him one of the most versatile players in baseball history. During his 30-year career, Dihigo played every position on the field. Sometimes more than one in the same game. Among Cuban-born players, only Cristobal Torriente was considered his peer at the plate.

 

To appreciate how gifted Dihigo was, in 1938 in the Mexican League his .387 average won the batting title and as a pitcher he was 18-2 with an 0.90 earned run average.

 

In a classic moment that same year, Dihigo met Satchel Paige in a much-anticipated pitching match-up that has become a Mexican League legend. Paige, hindered by a sore arm and relying on underhand and trick pitches, battled Dihigo for six scoreless innings. In the seventh, Paige's control faltered. After two walks and a single loaded the bases, he threw a wild pitch, giving Dihigo's team the lead. Paige left for a pinch hitter, and his team later tied the game, 1-1. Dihigo took matters into his own hands in the ninth and homered to win the game.

 

At 6-foot-4 and 195 pounds, Dihigo was a tall, fun-loving goofy man. Once, while safely on third base, he screamed at the pitcher, "You balked! You balked!" He continued to holler as he strolled toward home. Everyone stared as if Dihigo had suddenly gone mad. But when he crossed the plate and walked slyly into the dugout, the fans laughed and cheered.

 

Dihigo played sparingly as player-manager for the New York Cubans in 1945 and continued to play and manage in Cuba and Mexico until the early 1950s, when he returned to Cuba to stay.

 

Martin Dihigo, "El Maestro", served as the Minister of Sports in Cuba, until his death at age 65 in 1971. Dihigo, baseball's magic man is buried in Cienfuegos, Cuba. A manager's dream, an opponent's nightmare, he remains today one of few players in baseball history who could do it all.

 

Dihigo finished his career winning three Negro League home run crowns and tied Josh Gibson for another. As a pitcher, he racked up more than 200 wins in American and Mexican ball.

 

Martin Dihigo is the only man to ever be elected in to the Cuban, Mexican, and United States Baseball Halls of Fame.

 

JOSH GIBSON

 

Born: Dec. 21, 1911

Died: January 20, 1947

 

Position: Catcher.

Teams: Pittsburgh Crawfords 1927-29, 1932-36;

Homestead Grays 1930-31, 1937-46.

 

Elected to Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.

 

Among the biggest draws in the Negro Leagues, popular Josh Gibson is generally considered one of the most prodigious power hitters in the history of professional baseball. Josh led the Negro National League in home runs for 10 consecutive years; credited with 75 home runs in 1931.

 

Belting home runs of more than 500 feet was not unusual for Gibson. One homer in Monessen, Pa., reportedly was measured at 575 feet. The Sporting News of June 3, 1967 credits Gibson with a home run in a Negro League game at Yankee Stadium that struck two feet from the top of the wall circling the center field bleachers, about 580 feet from home plate.

 

Although it has never been conclusively proven, Chicago American Giants infielder Jack Marshall said Gibson slugged one over the third deck next to the left field bullpen in 1934 for the only fair ball hit out of the House That Ruth Built.

 

Even his death has been clouded with myth. Gibson, it was said, believed he was going to die and gathered his family around his bedside. He even sent his brother out to gather up his trophies. While talking and laughing he supposedly raised his head, spoke incoherently, then laid down and died. The true story was not as sentimental or dramatic. Gibson suffered a stroke in a movie theater and was taken unconscious to his mother's house where he died a few hours later.

 

Teammate and friend Jimmie Crutchfield often said that Gibson died of a broken heart at not having made the white major leagues. Gibson himself might have disagreed, though at times his depressed mental state threw him into fits of rage and rambling outbursts.

 

Like most of his teammates, Gibson generally accepted his fate and did not speak out about the injustice of baseball's color bar. That Jackie Robinson broke into the major leagues only a few months after Gibson's death.

supposedly Josh Gibson hit one out of Yankee Stadium

Bernie Williams hit one out Yankee stadium.

Bernie Williams hit one out Yankee stadium.

that was in batting practice

The Miami Marlins started as a farm system of the Brooklyn Dodgers (hence the loyalty in the area to the Dodgers in past decades) in the 1920's as an A club of the Florida State League. Upon the creation of the Florida Marlins, the club was relocated to Fort Myers in 1990 and renamed the Miracle.