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Post by friar82 on Oct 15, 2020 18:28:14 GMT -5
The Big Red Machine: Bench, Rose, Morgan, Perez, Conception, Griffey...
As a Pirate Fan, I respected - but despised the early/mid-70s Reds. They were a frequent burr in the saddle.
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Post by petert on Oct 16, 2020 13:25:42 GMT -5
George Foster...they also had a great defensive center fielder
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Post by friar82 on Oct 16, 2020 19:54:38 GMT -5
George Foster... great set of sideburns!
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Post by thumper on Oct 17, 2020 8:20:17 GMT -5
George Foster... great set of sideburns! In January 2000, I participated in the Red Sox Fantasy Baseball Camp. Won a contest with WEEI (but that's another story). In the dugout at 7:30 a.m. each day, we played double-headers 4 out of 5 days (I was starting pitcher the first 3 games and relieved in the fourth ... my arm was falling off). The Camp was a reunion of the Reds - Red Sox '75 World Series. Everybody was there from both teams as well as other major leaguers, Greg Luzinski, Jim Palmer, Frank and Brooks Robinson and many others. Morgan and Tiant were nice guys. Became friendly with Jim Rice and Bernie Carbo was my team's manager. Cut TV commercials (WEEI commitments with Bill Lee). I could go on and on. Including Kenny Rogers flying in on a helicopter and singing his "The Greatest". Best guys - Jim Rice and Pete Rose. Biggest schmucks - Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski. Everyone showed up for the Celebrity Golf Tournament. The big thing everyone talked about was the question of who could hit the golf ball the farthest, Jim Rice or George Foster. They both were unbelievable. But my team won the tournament by 5 shots in a Scramble. We had Bill "Soup" Campbell (relief pitcher who played for the Sox from '77 - '81), a young bar owner from Cincinnati who drove two of the par 4's, my buddy and myself. Foster didn't believe us. Great memories. PIZZA, SODA, GRINDERS!!!
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Post by petert on Oct 17, 2020 8:34:57 GMT -5
Ceasar Geronimo ...beleive he was the Red's defensive center fielder.
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Post by Cteve on Oct 19, 2020 11:03:20 GMT -5
Doc through Lou should be considered a PC/FOP having mention school many times. A giant.
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Post by dex on Oct 29, 2020 10:15:13 GMT -5
A great Friar fan and benefactor for over 60 years will be sorely missed. NARRAGANSETT GOODRICH, DONALD LEO 79, of Narragansett, RI, passed away in his home surrounded by family on October 25, 2020. The loving husband of Joan Verardo, the proud father of seven children, and grandfather of eight, he dedicated his life to his family and was an inspiration to them all. Donald was born the second of five children on July 29, 1941 in Boston to the late Claire (DeSalvo) and Leo Goodrich and grew up in Milton. He attended Mission High School, where he was a four-year starter for the varsity football team, and was a graduate of Providence College. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his six children, Mark Goodrich of Weston, FL; Catherine Goodrich Miller and her husband Jeff Miller of Washington, DC; Jennifer Goodrich Coia and her husband Arthur E. Coia II of Providence, RI; Sarah Verardo and her husband Courtney Harris of Providence, RI; Laura Verardo-Goodrich and her husband Jason Kopelman of Brooklyn, NY and Emily Verardo-Goodrich of Providence, RI. Donald was preceded in death by his beloved son William “Billy” Goodrich. Donald also leaves behind his four siblings, Lee Mahoney, Annmarie Eddy, Paul Goodrich and Billy Goodrich all of Massachusetts. Donald loved his grandchildren greatly, and his memory will always be with them. He leaves Scarlett Goodrich; Kaitlin, Maddie and Will Miller; Caroline and AJ Coia; and Boden and Jude Harris. To his family, Donald is remembered as a caring, attentive husband and father whose love will forever live on in their hearts. Donald co-founded the Goodrich-Blessing Agency where he worked for over 40 years. A passionate reader and traveler, he was an active leader in many local organizations. He served as the Chairman of the Narragansett Planning Board for 30 years and the Narragansett Zoning Board for 10 years. He was honored by the town in 2012 for his years of service with the declaration of “Donald Goodrich Day.” A “Golden Friar” and “Bronze Torchbearer”, Donald was an active Providence College alum and Friar Fanatic. A longtime season ticket holder, he often traveled with the team to cheer on his Friars all over the country. He was a recipient of the Duffy Dwyer Fan of the Year Award, but Donald also proudly supported the Hoyas in honor of his five daughters, who are all Georgetown graduates. Due to COVID-19, the funeral and burial will be private. A livestream will be available on Friday, October 30 at 11AM at livestream.com/stm/. In 2021, a memorial mass in his memory will be held at the Saint Dominick’s Chapel at PC. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to Providence College Friars Forever Athletic Fund, 1 Cunningham Square, Providence, RI 02918 or Crossroads, 160 Broad Street, Providence, RI 02903. Visit NardolilloFH.com for online condolences.
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Post by friar82 on Oct 31, 2020 8:19:22 GMT -5
This week marked the passing of Travis Roy (BU Hockey Player who was paralyzed playing in his very first, college shift 25-years ago), as well as Sean Connery of James Bond fame.
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Post by dex on Nov 1, 2020 9:35:11 GMT -5
Opinion/Patinkin: Sean Connery's Bond lives on for boys of the 1960s Mark Patinkin The Providence Journal
I am not sure how I ended up in journalism, since my firm career plan at age 11 was to join Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
A key motivation was to one day lie in wait in a hotel room corner while a Russian assassin fires bullets into my rigged bed, then smile as he whirls, aims and squeezes the trigger my way.
Click.
“That’s a Smith & Wesson,” I will say suavely. “And you’ve had your six.”
At which point I'll dispatch him with my Walther PPK.
Just like Sean Connery did in “Dr. No” in 1962.
"Dr. No" — the first of 27 Bond films. And six lead actors.
But for those of us of a certain age, there was only one Bond.
Almost 60 years later, Sean Connery just took his leave, but he's surely now in the Monte Carlo casino high above.
Playing baccarat in a tuxedo.
Having his usual martini, shaken not stirred.
More:Sean Connery, famed for playing James Bond, dies at 90
It is hard to overstate the effect Sean Connery’s Bond had on many 11-year-old boys in the 1960s.
As well as those 10 and 12 and 16.
And even beyond, because without naming names, Connery as Bond still has a place in the imagination of at least one 67-year-old I know.
And also my brother Douglas, who, at close to that same age, just texted me this:
“Look at it this way — a double-0 position just opened up.”
I cannot deny there are still nights, while driving home, when my Honda transforms into an Aston Martin being chased by North Koreans, whom I handle with Q’s hidden switch spraying oil out of my taillights Or times while shaving when, as a Smersh agent bursts in, I flip him into the full bathtub, knock a space heater in the water and fry him in a boiling flash.
“Shocking,” I mentally say as I continue shaving. “Positively shocking.”
Connery’s Bond films arrived at a time when cowboy shows like “Bonanza,” “Gunsmoke” and “The Lone Ranger” were a key male aspiration on television’s three main channels.
It says something that Connery had such impact that it broke up the cowboy party with a wave of copycats like “I Spy,” “The Avengers” and “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”
I liked the way John Wayne had tough lines like, “Fill your hand, Pilgrim” in duels, but Bond’s tuxedoed combat was just … cooler.
Sean Connery, of course, wanted to be known as more than Bond, and indeed, he was a legendary actor with dozens of roles, ranging from “The Hunt for Red October” to an Oscar-winning portrayal of an Irish cop in “The Untouchables.”
But it was those gifts that balanced his Bond role with both a seriousness and whimsy that made it an iconic film character.
Which is why still today, on beaches, I am not just sedately soaking sun. Mentally, I am firing a spear-gun into the stomach of another would-be assassin behind a palm tree, then observing, “I think he got the point.”
I never wanted to grow up to be Roger Moore’s 007.
And I no longer want to be childhood archetypes like Superman and Batman.
But a part of me still sees Connery’s Bond as a model of Hemingway-esque grace under pressure, with humor added in.
In short, Sean Connery was, and still is in many minds, the coolest guy in the room.
And then there was Miss Moneypenny.
The Bond girls in Connery’s movies, though alluring, were stereotyped, but not Moneypenny.
She was his boss M’s proper secretary, with whom Connery carried on an unrequited flirtation.
“Moneypenny," Connery says in their first moment in "Dr. No," "what gives?"
"I do,” she says, “given an ounce of encouragement."
But she had enough propriety to hold back. Paradoxically, that made her Connery’s longest relationship in the films, outlasting his Bond girl flings.
"Flattery will get you nowhere," she told him at one point. "But don't stop trying."
He didn’t, and yet the two understood that if things went too far, it would jeopardize what they had, and both valued it too much to mess it up.
I like to think that even more than his Bond girls, Connery is up there now with Moneypenny.
Some might feel this column reflects a less-than-mature fixation with a role that in the end was that of a sophisticated stunt player.
But there are few celebrity deaths that prompt childhood friends to wistfully text one another.
And observe the end of an era.
Connery’s passing is one.
Many legends live on in the heart.
Sean Connery as Bond will forever live on in our reveries.
— Mark Patinkin is a Journal columnist
mpatinki@providencejournal.com
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Post by friar82 on Nov 8, 2020 16:32:37 GMT -5
The Answer Is: A brave fighter of cancer to the end...
The Question: Who is Alex Trebek. RIP
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Post by dex on Nov 9, 2020 11:38:55 GMT -5
Alex Trebek, long-running ‘Jeopardy!’ host, dies at 80
By Lynn Elber
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Alex Trebek, who presided over the beloved quiz show “Jeopardy!” for more than 30 years with dapper charm and a touch of schoolmaster strictness, died Sunday. He was 80.
Trebek, who announced in 2019 that he had advanced pancreatic cancer, died at his Los Angeles home, surrounded by family and friends, “Jeopardy!” studio Sony said.
The Canadian-born host, who made a point of informing fans about his health directly, spoke in a calm, even tone as he revealed his illness and hope for a cure in a video posted March 6, 2019.
In the video, Trebek said he was joining the 50,000 other Americans who receive such a diagnosis each year and that he recognized that the prognosis was not encouraging.
But Trebek said he intended to fight it and keep working, even joking that he needed to beat the disease because his “Jeopardy!” contract ran for three more years. Less than a week later, he opened the show with a message acknowledging the outpouring of kind words and prayers he’d received.
“Thanks to the — believe it or not — hundreds of thousands of people who have sent in tweets, texts, emails, cards and letters wishing me well,” Trebek said. “I’m a lucky guy.”
Messages of grief and respect from former contestants, celebrities and the wider public quickly followed news of his loss.
“Alex wasn’t just the best ever at what he did. He was also a lovely and deeply decent man, and I’m grateful for every minute I got to spend with him,” tweeted “Jeopardy!” champion Ken Jennings. “Thinking today about his family and his Jeopardy! family — which, in a way, included millions of us.”
“It was one of the great privileges of my life to spend time with this courageous man while he fought the battle of his life. You will never be replaced in our hearts, Alex,” James Holzhauer, another “Jeopardy!” star, posted on Twitter.
John Legend tweeted that he was “obsessed with Jeopardy as a nerdy kid growing up in Ohio. I’ve loved and revered Alex Trebek since I can remember. What an iconic career.”
“Jeopardy!” bills itself as “America’s favorite quiz show” and captivated the public with a unique format in which contestants were told the answers and had to provide the questions on a variety of subjects, including movies, politics, history and popular culture.
They would answer by saying “What is ... ?” or “Who is .... ?”
Trebek, who became its host in 1984, was a master of the format, engaging in friendly banter with contestants, appearing genuinely pleased when they answered correctly and, at the same time, moving the game along in a brisk nononsense fashion whenever people struggled for answers.
He never pretended to know the answers himself if he really didn’t, deferring to the show’s experts to decide whether a somewhat
This May 5, 2019, photo shows Alex Trebek gestures while presenting an award at the 46th annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Pasadena, Calif. “Jeopardy!” host Trebek died Sunday after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly two years. [INVISION VIA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS / CHRIS PIZZELLO]
vague answer had come close enough to be counted as correct.
“I try not to take myself too seriously,” he told an interviewer in 2004. “I don’t want to come off as a pompous ass and indicate that I know everything when I don’t.”
The show was the brainstorm of Julann Griffin, wife of the late talk show host-entrepreneur Merv Griffin, who said she suggested to him one day that he create a game show where people were given the answers.
“Jeopardy!” debuted on NBC in 1964 with Art Fleming as emcee and was an immediate hit. It lasted until 1975, then was revived in syndication with Trebek.
Long identified by a full head of hair and trim mustache (though in 2001 he startled viewers by shaving his mustache, “completely on a whim”), Trebek was more than qualified for the job, having started his game show career on “Reach for the Top” in his native country.
Moving to the U.S. in 1973, he appeared on “The Wizard of Odds,” “High Rollers,” “The $128,000 Question” and “Double Dare.” Even during his run on “Jeopardy!”, Trebek worked on other shows. In the early 1990s, he was the host of three — “Jeopardy!”, “To Tell the Truth” and “Classic Concentration.”
“Jeopardy!” made him famous. He won five Emmys as its host, including one last June, and received stars on both the Hollywood and Canadian walks of fame. In 2012, the show won a prestigious Peabody Award.
He taped his daily “Jeopardy!” shows at a frenetic pace, recording as many as 10 episodes (two weeks’ worth) in just two days. After what was described as a mild heart attack in 2007, he was back at work in just a month.
He posted a video in January 2018 announcing he’d undergone surgery for blood clots on the brain that followed a fall he’d taken. The show was on hiatus during his recovery.
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Post by dex on Nov 11, 2020 9:15:37 GMT -5
Rest In Peace Tommy "Gunner" Heinsohn as another hero of my childhood now belongs to the ages.
Tommy Heinsohn, Mr. Celtic, dies at 86
By Bill Doyle
The Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Bill Russell won more championships. Bob Cousy was more iconic. John Havlicek scored more points. Larry Bird had a better shooting range.
But no legend was associated with the Boston Celtics longer than Tommy Heinsohn. After graduating as the all-time leading scorer at Holy Cross in 1956, the 6-foot-7 forward played nine seasons for the Celtics, coached them for another nine and spent more than 40 years broadcasting their games on television and radio.
Celtics fans everywhere are mourning the death of Heinsohn, 86. Heinsohn had been in poor health recently, had undergone multiple surgeries for blood clots and had lost a great deal of weight. He didn’t broadcast Celtics games when they resumed play this season after being sidelined for months by the pandemic.
Heinsohn won eight NBA championships as a player and two as a coach. He was a Celtics broadcaster for the franchise’s other seven titles.
Cousy, 92, starred at Holy Cross before Heinsohn, won six NBA championships with him in Boston and broadcast Celtics games with him for years.
Celtics broadcasters Tommy Heinsohn, left, and Mike Gorman speak on camera before a game on March 16, 2011. Heinsohn, who died on Tuesday, spent more than 60 years with the Boston Celtics as a player, coach and broadcaster. [AP, FILE / ELISE AMENDOLA] [ELISE AMENDOLA, AP]
“Too often we’re searching for positive things to say about people who pass away,” Cousy said on Tuesday from his home in Worcester. “In Tommy’s case, it’s easy to find positive
things. But I think I would probably say he symbolizes our dynasty years perhaps better than any high profile Celtic that you would think of, including Russell, myself, Bird, Havlicek. He’s had more to do with the Celtics than any of us over the years.”
Cousy called Heinsohn the “most underrated power forward perhaps in the history of the league,” and berated “the fool” who left him off the NBA’s all-time top 50 team.
Wyc Grousbeck, Steve Pagliuca and the Celtics ownership group issued this statement on Tuesday: “This is a devastating loss. Tommy was the ultimate Celtic. For the past 18 years, our ownership group has relied hugely on Tommy’s advice and insights and have reveled in his hundreds of stories about Red Auerbach, Bill Russell, and how the Celtics became a dynasty. He will be remembered forever.”
During Celtics broadcasts, Heinsohn was known for awarding “Tommy Points” to players who hustled, and for criticizing referees who made calls against the Celtics, often shouting, “Give me a break.”
“His blood ran green,” Cousy said. “If you ever heard him do a game, you knew where his loyalties were. Whether you agreed with him or not, you had to respect the fact that he loved the Celtics so dearly.”
Cousy said Heinsohn sounded weak when they spoke on the telephone three weeks ago, but he felt encouraged when Heinsohn told him he planned to have lunch with him in Worcester.
Heinsohn’s former Holy Cross and Celtics teammate Togo Palazzi said in 2017 that the Celtics should erect a statue to salute Heinsohn.
“He’s Mr. Celtic,” Palazzi said then. “They should name the Garden after him, he’s been there for 60 years. He’s been a player, he’s been a coach, he’s been a TV announcer. He’s even been sent to lottery meetings by the Celtics.”
Heinsohn was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player and later as a coach. Holy Cross retired his No. 24 and the Celtics retired his No. 15.
Heinsohn was voted NBA Rookie of the Year in 1957 when Russell, who won 11 NBA titles in his
HEINSOHN from page B1 to B3 13 Celtics seasons, was also a rookie. Heinsohn was an All-Star six times.
“Besides that,” Cousy said, “he was a fun guy to sit around and have a beer with.”
Heinsohn played only nine years before retiring.
“We used to needle him all the time because of his smoking,” Cousy said a few years ago. “We used to tell him, ‘Tommy, if you just ran as fast on the court as you do from the court to the locker room at halftime to light up your cigarette, you’d be all-world.’ ” Heinsohn announced Celtics games on the radio before joining Mike Gorman on Celtics television broadcasts in 1981. They became the longest-running broadcast duo in sports. In recent years, Heinsohn provided color commentary at home games, but no longer traveled to road games. He remained involved, however, by offering commentary in the NBC Sports Boston studio. Heinsohn missed several games last year because of sleep apnea.
Thomas “Tommy” William Heinsohn was born Aug. 26, 1934, in Jersey City, New Jersey. After starring at St. Michael’s High School in Union City, N.J., he attended Holy Cross on a basketball scholarship and helped the Crusaders win the 1954 NIT championship his sophomore year under coach Butch Sheary.
The multi-talented Heinsohn was also an accomplished artist with several public showings of his paintings.
Heinsohn scored 1,789 points in his college career, which was the most in HC history when he graduated and which is tied with Chris Potter for fifth today.
Heinsohn learned a lot about coaching from Sheary and legendary Celtics coach Red Auerbach. He became only the fourth person to be inducted into the hall as a player and coach, joining his former Celtics teammate Bill Sharman, John Wooden and Lenny Wilkens.
The Celtics chose Heinsohn as a territorial draft pick and the following season he played in the All-Star Game, was named Rookie of the Year and won the first of his eight NBA championships as a player. Only Russell (11) and Sam Jones (10) have won more.
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Post by dex on Nov 11, 2020 9:18:58 GMT -5
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Post by dex on Nov 14, 2020 11:48:00 GMT -5
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Post by johnnypc on Nov 14, 2020 13:49:55 GMT -5
I met Paul Horning about 10 years ago as I was walking through the clubhouse at Saratoga racetrack.He was sitting at a table with another man right next to the elevator on the patio. As I walked by, I gave him a nod by did not say anything to him. To my surprise he jumped up extended his hand and said Paul Hornung, nice to meet you. I told him a few my of relatives graduate from Notre Dame and how much I enjoyed watching him play..He was probably about 75 years ol when I met him. What I could not believe how big he was for a back He was probably 6'4 and looked like he could still play from the chest up. He had a pretty good sized gut. He was very gracious and gregarious. I have always wonder why he jumped up extended his hand, introduced himself and spoke to me for a few minutes.
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