I just love You Tube videos of cute kids. Exspecially when those cute kids are mine. Here is Puppy on her way to Dog Day (Where people bring their dogs to the game) at a White Sox game. Too Precious.
Andy Pafko played outfield for the Cubs from 1943 to 1951 when he was moved to Brooklyn Dodgers midseason. Pafko was an all star 4 consecutive years (1947 to 1950). Pafko batted .294 as a Cub over 9 seasons and hit 126 of his 213 MLB homers with Chicago. This places him 16th all time in Cubs Home run hitters. After the Cubs Pafko played with Jackie Robinson in Milwaukee and Hank Aaron In Milwaukee.
On September 23,1935 Bob O'Farrell played the last of his 1,492 major league ball games. 666 of these were played with the Cubs in 2 stints on the northside. He played from 1915 to 1925 with the Cubs and again in 1934. O'Farrell was replaced by Gabby Hartnett as the starting catcher for the Cubs when he was out with an injury. O'Farrel was traded to the Cardinals in the middle of 1925 campaign. In 1926 O'Farrell won the NL MVP award for the Cards. As a Cub, O'Farrell excelled offensively and defensively and hit 27 of his 51 round trippers for the Cubbies.
I started this blog over 6 years ago and it has taken until now to get my 100th post. I know we are smack dab in the thick of Cubs homerun hitters. However I thought this would be a good time to play footage of Paul Konerko getting a hit on Paul Konerko Bobble head day at US cellular field, I am doing the announcing and the camera work.
A baseball game can take 3-4 hours to complete. But if all you are interested is watching all the outs it can take 5-10 minutes. 3-5 minutes if you are just looking for all the outs on one side. When would you want to do that? When you want to relive a no hitter. You tube is your friend when it comes to finding those.
on April 18,2007 Mark Buehrle (see B is for Buehrle from earlier this month) pitched a no hitter for the Chicago White Sox against the Texas Ranger. This means in his 9 innings of work no one got on base with a hit. Former Sox player Sammy Sosa did get a walk and you can watch what Buerhle did to him.
A no hitter when no one gets on base for any reason is called a perfect game Buerhle got one of those also. It was 2 years later July 23, 2009 against the Tampa Bay Rays. Since it is technically a no hitter and since I am not doing P is for Perfect Game I'll show you that one as well. You'd be Wise to watch the 9th inning of this one.
