Trains and baseball

[wanswheel]

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=yogi&oq=yogi&gs_l=news-cc.3..43j0l9j43i53.118868.120328.0.121258.4.4.0.0.0.0.115.351.3j1.4.0...0.0...1ac.1.GffYxj2zNf0#hl=en&gl=us&authuser=0&tbm=nws&q=%22yogi+berra%22

[BaltACD]

dakotafred

wanswheel

Yogi Berra rode some trains.  NY Times article about the good old days…

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/sports/10anderson.html?_r=0

 

 

 

 

A few last leaves like Yogi have a lot to remember for all of us. Those train rides from the eastern U.S. to the then-outpost of MLB, in St. Louis, probably took more out of the players than modern plane rides to the West Coast.

 

For one thing, there was time for a lot of drinking. The Cleveland Indians were a team that was well-known for lifting a few -- a reason even advanced for their failure to catch the Yankees so often in the first half of the 1950s.

 

In the 1990s, former Indians 3rd-sacker Al Rosen -- then GM of the Giants -- made gentle fun of all the modern emphasis on weight-lifting. Indians teammate Bob Lemon, a Hall of Famer, "never lifted anything heavier than a cocktail glass," Rosen said.

 

Conditioning was 12 oz curls!

And the schedule back then had may fewer night games and the frequency of a day game after a night game was also much lower.

[dakotafred]

wanswheel

Yogi Berra rode some trains.  NY Times article about the good old days…

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/sports/10anderson.html?_r=0

 

A few last leaves like Yogi have a lot to remember for all of us. Those train rides from the eastern U.S. to the then-outpost of MLB, in St. Louis, probably took more out of the players than modern plane rides to the West Coast.

 

For one thing, there was time for a lot of drinking. The Cleveland Indians were a team that was well-known for lifting a few -- a reason even advanced for their failure to catch the Yankees so often in the first half of the 1950s.

 

In the 1990s, former Indians 3rd-sacker Al Rosen -- then GM of the Giants -- made gentle fun of all the modern emphasis on weight-lifting. Indians teammate Bob Lemon, a Hall of Famer, "never lifted anything heavier than a cocktail glass," Rosen said.

[tomikawaTT]

Deggesty

"When the train arrived at Grand Central in midmorning, the writers bought their papers and yes, their articles had been published. Tossed to a telegrapher from a train that never stopped. You can’t do that on a jet."

True.  Today they could type it on a laptop, tablet or smartphone, upload to their blogsite and it would be, "Published," before they got the finger off the ENTER button.

Even on a jet.

Chuck

[Deggesty]

"When the train arrived at Grand Central in midmorning, the writers bought their papers and yes, their articles had been published. Tossed to a telegrapher from a train that never stopped. You can’t do that on a jet."

[wanswheel]

Yogi Berra rode some trains.  NY Times article about the good old days…

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/sports/10anderson.html?_r=0

[rdamon]

Nice ... Maybe they will put it in Atlanta as well.

[oltmannd]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/03/26/nationals-unveil-new-train-themed-scoreboard-on-club-level/

I like it!