Guess who.
They are all strong single-moment identities in baseball. They each defy any strongest to weakest rating against each other because it all depends upon one’s personal fan perspective . Some are joyful. Some are painful. Again, depending upon your own fan perspective.
Here are The Pecan Park Eagle’s list of our favorite baseball people who are always referenced to one event in their baseball lives. Each of the dead from this list – and all of the living that shall later follow – receive a headline and/or first paragraph obituary reference to the single memory that never dies in the collective consciousness of fans when their name comes to mind.
If we have to explain why each is tied to a certain memory, we will be forced to question either your age or the depth of your baseball fandom status:
The Pecan Park Eagle’s Ten Strongest One-Moment Baseball Memory Group (in chronological order)
- Fred Merkle (1908)
- Joe Jackson (1919)
- Ray Chapman (1920)
- Grover Cleveland Alexander (1926)
- Jackie Robinson (1947)
- Eddie Gaedel (1951)
- Bobby Thomson (1951)
- Don Larsen (1956)
- Bill Mazeroski (1960)
- Bill Buckner (1986)
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Random Thought. We went to see “Spectre”, the new James Bond movie last night. Loved it, but I also came home with this realization: If the Brits had been armed with James Bond and the “OO” whatever spy program during the Revolutionary War, there might never have been a United States of America.
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Have a Happy and Pleasant Fall Tuesday in Houston – or Wherever You Are, Everybody!
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