So here's what we're going to do. I'm going to share reasons TO be an #Oakland#Athletics fan in 2024, because that's what the Good Lord GAVE ME! The choice of living in POSSIBILITY!
Esteury Ruiz missed a month of play in '23, had an OBP of just .309, and STILL led the league in SBs (67). Rickey is a mentor. Watch out!
Detroit cruised to the easy win at the Coyle, as Fred Hutchinson picked up his 12th win and Cool Papa Bell went 4-6 with 3 RBI. Tigers aim for three out of four on the road tomorrow.
Today's #1947League game brought to you by @YakyuNightOwl, Vince Guaraldi, and a tune that captures, in 189 perfect seconds, the full range of human joy and wonder.
Thanks to Charles Schulz, Guaraldi's trio was surely the only jazz combo to make huge inroads into the elementary-school set.
Our #1947League hero, Cool Papa Bell, really did once score from first on a bunt. He also appears to have scored from second on a sac fly...multiple times.
But was he faster than the speed of light? What's the truth behind the story of him flicking a lightswitch and being in bed before the room went dark? One guess.
This doesn't so much debunk one man's speed as shine a light on another man's (often-overlooked) gift for marketing and narrative. Two geniuses, but the real genius in this particular story is Satchel Paige.
That whole damn article about Cool Papa Bell is amazing, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. Here is the link again if you want to do a deeper dive: