NY Yankees and SF Giants

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NY Yankees will be at ATT Park 6/22, 6/23, 6/24 this weekend.

On the date we are going, Sunday, June 24, 2007 its going to be Giants vs. New York 1962 World Series Reunion. Both teams are going to wear their old team’s uniforms from 1962.

The last time the New York Yankees played the San Francisco Giants here in San Francisco was at candle Stick Park in 1962 at the World Series.


Everyone who is still alive who played in that game is being ask to show up to the 1962 World Series Reunion.

This should be a very good game and a good series.

1962 World Series Games – Please see the link below for the players who played and the stats of the game.

GO GIANTS

NY Yankees

1962 World Series - NYY vs. SFG - Baseball-Reference.com

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I was 1 then, Yes I remember it well.

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GO GIANTS

NY Yankees

Enjoy the game ....BEAT THEM YANKS!!

Sue

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That sounds like fun! Go Giants!! That day we'll be in Tampa Bay to see them play the Dodgers...not quite as exciting, but just about any major league game is good..
Connie

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1951 World Series!

In 1951 I was 11 years old and a NY Giant's Fan. This was before the Braves came to Milwaukee and I became a Brave's Fan (of course I am now a Brewer's Fan).

Dave Koslo was born in my home town of Menasha, WI, a city of 10,000 at that time. Therefore I was a NY Giants Fan.

Dave Koslo was a left handed pitcher for the NY Giants and winner of the first game in the 1951 world Series.

Dave Koslo | BaseballLibrary.com


Read about the 1951 World Series here.

1951 World Series by Baseball Almanac

Several new rookies on the scene included a young switch-hitter named Mickey Mantle and a phenomenal fielder named Willie Mays. The nineteen year-old Mantle was called up to the big leagues from the Yankees Kansas City franchise and hit thirteen home runs in ninety-six games. Mays had been called up in late May by the Giants from their Minneapolis team (where he was batting .477) and the twenty-year old responded with twenty homers of his own. It seems fitting that in their first year of professional play, both future Hall of Famers found themselves competing against one another in the biggest game of the year; the 1951 World Series.

The Giants had steamrolled their way to the Fall Classic and were determined to dethrone their world champion, cross-town rivals. Manager Leo Durocher's team had rallied to win the National League pennant after trailing the Brooklyn Dodgers by 13½ games. Beginning August 12, the Giants won sixteen consecutive outings and thirty-seven of their last forty-four to forge a tie for the top of the National League with Brooklyn. They went on to beat the Dodgers in a best-of-three playoff, ending with the infamous Thomson three-run homer off Ralph Branca that gave the Giants a 5-4 victory in the third game at the Polo Grounds. With Brooklyn out of the way, the Bronx was next and the Giants wanted to prove that the last team standing was truly "New York's baseball team".


Things continued to go the Giants way as they went on to shock the Yankees in a 5-1 Series opening triumph. Dave Koslo held the Yankees to just seven-hits and Alvin Dark came up big with a three-run homer.


Walt

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That sounds like fun! Go Giants!! That day we'll be in Tampa Bay to see them play the Dodgers...not quite as exciting, but just about any major league game is good..
Connie

May the Devil Rays Knock the Dodgers down a few notches…


Devil Rays
Dodgers

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Ken,

How low can you go? I would love to see the Dodgers fight for the cellar with your Giants. Your subversive agent (Schmidt) that the Giants planted has worked brilliantly.....$47 million and three years sunk for the Dodgers.

Now the Dodgers can nose dive and join your club at the bottom until you can get the Barroid show over with and start playing real baseball again.

Hey...the Angels have helped...we are 5 wins and 1 loss vs. our carpetbagger neighbors a few miles north.

Go Padres.


Dodgers RHP Jason Schmidt has season-ending surgery

June 21, 2007

TORONTO (AP) -- Jason Schmidt had season-ending shoulder surgery on Wednesday and the Los Angeles Dodgers' right-hander is not expected to return until spring training next year.

"We knew he hadn't been throwing well," general manager Ned Colletti said. "It's been a concern for a few starts. Obviously it's a disappointment. We'll just have to figure out how to make it better."

Schmidt, who signed a $47 million, three-year contract as a free agent during the offseason, went 1-4 with a 6.31 ERA in six starts.

"With all due respect, he hasn't thrown well," Colletti said. "It's not as if he was on his way to a Cy Young season and suddenly we lost him. We need to fill the innings and we need to fill them with quality innings."

Dodgers trainer Stan Conte said Schmidt had surgery to repair an inflamed bursa, a torn labrum and a frayed biceps tendon in his right shoulder. Both the labrum tear and the frayed tendon were unexpected.

Conte said the torn labrum is the most serious aspect of the surgery, performed in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening.

"The rehab has to go slower," Conte explained. "It has to attach back to the bone and that takes some time. The whole process is slowed down."

The bursa is a pad that decreases friction between a tendon and a bone, Conte said.

"You have a bunch of them in your shoulder," he explained. "There's one that sits on top of your shoulder. When it gets inflamed, it's hard to raise your arm all the way up."

Schmidt will begin exercises to build up strength and range of motion as soon as he is able.

"We hope that he'll be throwing in spring training," Conte said. "We're about an hour and half out of surgery. We're going to have to see how the rehab process goes and everything else. Based on other guys going through similar procedures, we think he'll be OK in spring training."

"We probably won't see him actually throwing a ball for three to four months, depending on how the rehab goes," Conte added.

Conte said there's no way to tell when Schmidt suffered the injury. Colletti insisted there was no sign of any damage when the Dodgers inspected Schmidt in the offseason before making their contract offer.

"If I had any inkling that this was what was going to be happening in the middle of June, I doubt if we would have gone forward with that," Colletti said.

Schmidt was placed on the disabled list in April because of bursitis in his shoulder after going 1-2 with a 7.36 ERA in his first three starts.

Following a 45-game absence, Schmidt returned June 5 and threw six shutout innings in San Diego, consistently reaching 89 mph and topping out at 91 mph.

But the 34-year-old didn't perform nearly as well in his last two starts, and his velocity was down. He allowed three runs and five hits in 4 2-3 innings against the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday, walking four and striking out two.

Schmidt acknowledged after Saturday's game that he was still not at full strength.

"I just haven't felt like myself," he said.

Conte said Schmidt's labrum tear could have contributed to his lack of velocity.

"When you take your arm back in the cocking position, if the labrum is not stable back there, it prevents you from getting all the way back," Conte said. "We think this is one of the main reasons. The bursa being inflamed and scarred down, too, was another reason. We think this explains why he was having problems and why he couldn't seem to get going."

This is the second time in his career that Schmidt has undergone season ending shoulder surgery. He was sidelined for the final six weeks of the 2000 season after surgery to repair a partially torn rotator cuff and a frayed labrum.

Schmidt was placed on the disabled list Monday and utilityman Marlon Anderson was activated from the disabled list to take his place on the roster.

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Ken,

How low can you go? I would love to see the Dodgers fight for the cellar with your Giants.

How low will I go?
Pretty low when it comes to the Dodgers

Maybe we are in the cellar right now but remember there are still 90 games left in the season, which means we are only half way.

Anything can happen; it’s not over intel its over.

GO GIANTS

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My broom is on loan to the Colorado Rockies.

Great sweep, guys.............. thanks !

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My broom is on loan to the Colorado Rockies.

Great sweep, guys.............. thanks !

poor Roger....not! Back to double digits behind the sox...yeah!
Connie

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A friend of mine owns season tickets and he can’t use them for Saturdays game, so he gave them to us. So we will be there Saturday and Sunday YAHOO!! Saturday they are giving away N.Y. Giants hats. My friend says he just wants one and he’s going to give us the other one.

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Nice.

Have fun this weekend.

Go Giants.

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poor Roger....not! Back to double digits behind the sox...yeah!
Connie

WAY TO GO ROCKIES!!

I root for two teams ~~ the Red Sox and whoever plays the Yankees!!

Sue

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Saturday they are giving away N.Y. Giants hats.
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N.Y. Giants hats. 1st 20,000 fans

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N.Y. Giants hats. 1st 20,000 fans

Looks like a NY hat to me.