Tuesday, March 07, 2006
R.I.P. Kirby Puckett
Not much to say that Bat-Girl doesn't say here.
What a fun ballplayer he was to watch.
In the 1991 World Series against the Braves, with the Twins facing a Game 6 that they had to wing, Puckett told his teammates in the clubhouse, "Climb on my back, boys. I don't know who's going to take care of Game 7, but I got this one."
He proceeded to single, steal a base, triple, bring in a run with a sacrifice fly, and score a run. He saved a run with a wall-crashing catch in the third.
And then, in the 11th, his home run prompted Jack Buck's "We'll see you tomorrow night!"
What a ballplayer.
What a fun ballplayer he was to watch.
In the 1991 World Series against the Braves, with the Twins facing a Game 6 that they had to wing, Puckett told his teammates in the clubhouse, "Climb on my back, boys. I don't know who's going to take care of Game 7, but I got this one."
He proceeded to single, steal a base, triple, bring in a run with a sacrifice fly, and score a run. He saved a run with a wall-crashing catch in the third.
And then, in the 11th, his home run prompted Jack Buck's "We'll see you tomorrow night!"
What a ballplayer.
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Monday, March 06, 2006
And we won't see you tomorrow night
I've been to Minneapolis once, over Labor Day weekend in 1996. Many of the city buses were carrying an ad that said, simply, "Thanks, Kirby!" It was a couple of months after he'd officially retired.
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