20 January 2014

The Mechanical Man

"You gotta have drawn breath at the same time as Charlie Gehringer to drink here."


A while ago for some reason---okay, it was when Dustin Pedroia signed his seven-year extension with the Red Sox---I was looking up how many second basemen actually stick at that position very late in their careers.  The list is astonishingly short:  Rogers Hornsby, Joe Morgan, a handful of other guys, all of whom you've heard of.  And there's Gehringer... you really forget how long he was that astonishingly good he was at a very, very hard position to play for long. 

Anyway, just me being mawkish about old ballplayers. 

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