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loved Ken Burns series' which showed the true love of baseball the players had in the late 40s and 50s. I guess they were a part of our greatest generation. I'll recap what I have said in the past. I loved pitchers that would go 9 innings, I loved the art of the bunt, I love the home run from true sluggers who hit the ball out of the humongous parks without fences that were brought in to pad their stats and put fans in the current stands. The stands were filled in the old days with no gimmics needed. I loved the gloves that looked like mops that showed the players' ability to catch the ball, get in front of grounders, necessarily catch the ball with two hands whenever possible. I like Aaron Judge as a player but his dropping the fly ball in the World Series this year while using one hand was fitting. I loved it when a star was a guy who hit 300 but wasn't a superstar unless he hit the 300 with 40 homers and 100 rbi's too. And in 154 games. And it should still be rbi's, not rbi.

Pitchers I remember or heard of and were the best:
Bob Feller, Warren Spahn, Lew Burdette, Sandy Koufax, Don Newcome, Johnny Sain, Whitey Ford, Lefty Gomez, Juan Marichial, and later Seaver, Maddox, Carlton all the great old guys before that time. All the great home commentators and trying to listen to their great voices and descriptions on radios that were fading in and out.

I remember the great World Series, or have heard of them. The famed Dodgers/Yankees clashes before I was familiar with the game. Personally I remember the Milwaukee Braves against the Yankees in 1957 and 1958 with the Yankees being better but the Braves winning in 1957 and Gil McDougald with the aforementioned mop for a glove leaping as what seemed to be as high as Michael Jordan did later, for a great catch on a line drive seemingly going over his head and coming down with it to preserve the win for the Yankees in 1958. He had to use one hand on that one.