YakyuNightOwl
@RuthODay @YusufToropov @tabletopmania @stlcolorbaseball @ted_duffield @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices A quartet of leagues in four different countries. Fields belongs in the Hall.
@YusufToropov @stlcolorbaseball @RuthODay @tabletopmania @ted_duffield @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices No worries at all. Credit to Professor Dexter Thomas for putting it all together from the shreds and fragments found by baseball historians.
@YusufToropov @stlcolorbaseball @RuthODay @tabletopmania @ted_duffield @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices This was the first time a Black player was on a team in Japan with another Black player. Jimmy Bonner broke the color barrier in Japan in 1936.
@YusufToropov @RuthODay @tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices Right? Two legendary Negro Leagues stars on a team without a home field, have a MLB stadium that opened in 1960 in common, and it still isn't their home ballpark.
They were about a year apart in the Bay Area as well. Hank left to play in another league. Just like the Clowns.
@RuthODay @YusufToropov @tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices Aaron and Stone both started at Candlestick Park.
How about "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" by San Francisco's own Vince Guaraldi?
Everyone who got on that mound was casting their fate to the wind.
Vince wrote soundtracks for the "Peanuts" shows, so this comes back around to the Clowns and "Peanuts" Davis.
@RuthODay @YusufToropov @tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices Here's a bigger hint, during Aaron's last game in the park, he scuffled for two errors with the glove, but hit a two-run jack. It was September of 1974.
Like their careers with the Clowns, they would not cross paths.
@RuthODay @YusufToropov @tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices Another good guess, but not in Washington, D.C.
@RuthODay @YusufToropov @tabletopmania @ted_duffield @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices I'll give everyone a big hint.