Thursday, November 20, 2008

November 20
28 is Fred Lorenzen, 11 is Ned Jarrett. Tiny Lund won the race in an upset; he drove the #21 Woods Brothers car after Marvin Panch was burned while practicing in a Ford/Maserati for the sports car race. Lund ran to the burning car and pulled Panch out; Panch recommended Lund for the ride. Lund was later killed at Talladega in a wreck with J.D. McDuffie. Rumor had it that Lund took the webbing out of his helmet because his head was so big.

And this is what a batter faced when batting against Sandy Koufax. What made the picture unique was he only hit 2 homers in his career, and this was one of them. He pitched left and batted right; what kind of imbecile does that? Oh never mind......that's right.................... the Old Paratrooper tried that trick if I remember correctly.
Anyway, Koufax pitched in 397 games, won 165, saved 9 (believe it or not, he and Drysdale used to also pitch relief during their prime years in the early 60's), struck out 2396 in 2324 innings. He was a great all around athlete, but only hit 2 dingers in his 12 years in the majors.

CA pictures and videos coming up soon.

1 comment:

oldparatrooper said...

So what did I win from the previous post?
I am really disappointed that 007 did not submit an answer, especially when we always try to figure out his puzzle answers...I hope he has a good excuse.

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