The Signs They Are a Changing 1960-69 League - Playing

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Re: 1960-69 League - DRAFTING!

PostFri Feb 08, 2013 11:02 am

wont be able to get in until this afternoon around 5
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Re: 1960-69 League - DRAFTING!

PostFri Feb 08, 2013 11:03 am

LMBombers wrote:Lets get loaded before we draft again. You can take that any way you wish. ;)

:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: 1960-69 League - DRAFTING!

PostFri Feb 08, 2013 11:06 am

He suffered a heart attack at his Redmond, Washington home on January 26, 1981, and died at the age of 42. He is buried in an unmarked grave at Sunset Hills Memorial Park, Bellevue, Washington (Gethsemane Section, Grave 85).

In a May 2007 article titled "Baseball, Partying, and Alcohol Abuse," Oyler's former Detroit roommate, Denny McLain claimed that Oyler was "an alcoholic" who "died prematurely."[13] One of the authoritative histories of the team also reports that many of the 1968 Tigers drank "a lot," that Oyler was "later in AA" and that "alcohol may have adversely affected (Oyler's) career." (Patrick Harrigan, "The Detroit Tigers: Club and Community 1945-1995" (Univ. Toronto Press 1997), p. 145.)


That's from Wikipedia, which as far as I now is all verified information! ;)
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Re: 1960-69 League - DRAFTING!

PostFri Feb 08, 2013 11:14 am

While we're waiting to get "loaded", here is some more Jim Lefebvre trivia.

He appeared as a henchman in some Batman episodes and also appeared in a Gilligan's Island episode.

Just looking at the '65 numbers, I would say Joe Morgan was more deserving of the Rookie of the Year however.
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Re: 1960-69 League - DRAFTING!

PostFri Feb 08, 2013 11:20 am

krazykat wrote:While we're waiting to get "loaded", here is some more Jim Lefebvre trivia.

He appeared as a henchman in some Batman episodes and also appeared in a Gilligan's Island episode.

Just looking at the '65 numbers, I would say Joe Morgan was more deserving of the Rookie of the Year however.



Yeah back in the day, those LA athletes were always mixing with the Hollywood crowd, getting in cameo appearances in a lot of tv shows. The earliest I remember are Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax on the Donna Reed Show.
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Re: 1960-69 League - DRAFTING!

PostFri Feb 08, 2013 11:33 am

If the west teams get their teams ready to load into the league we can make a run at it after rjnewman enters his team.
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Re: 1960-69 League - DRAFTING!

PostFri Feb 08, 2013 11:44 am

I remember Bob Gibson on Gentle Ben! And maybe Drysdale too?
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Re: 1960-69 League - DRAFTING!

PostFri Feb 08, 2013 11:55 am

Bob ("what do you want") Gibson on "Gentle" Ben??? Now that's an oxymoron!
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Re: 1960-69 League - DRAFTING!

PostFri Feb 08, 2013 12:00 pm

Musial6 wrote:Bob ("what do you want") Gibson on "Gentle" Ben??? Now that's an oxymoron!


So what's the story here?
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Re: 1960-69 League - DRAFTING!

PostFri Feb 08, 2013 12:04 pm

Well, just that Bob Gibson was always a surly character, and him being on a show titled Gentle Ben sounded like a contradiction. Wasn't Gentle Ben about a bear??
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