I turned on the
start of the Bulls-Celtics’ game last night to catch Rajon Rondo in street
clothes, by which I mean matching purplish shirt, tie, pants and short-sleeved
(!) sports’ jacket. That’s what happens
when you suffer a broken thumb, I guess.
Somehow, the Bulls managed to play worse than Rondo looked, losing to
Boston by a score of 104-87.
Late in the
third quarter, my thoughts drifted over to baseball, as they are wont to do,
and I got to wondering why Don Drysdale is in the Hall of Fame but Billy Pierce
isn’t. The 6’5” Drysdale had a 14-year
career during which he went 209-166 with a 2.95 ERA to go with 167 complete
games, 49 shutouts and a 3-3 record in the World Series. That compares to the 5’10” Pierce, who over
18 seasons (including the 10 innings he pitched as an 18-year old for the
Tigers in 1945) went 211-169 with a 3.27 ERA in addition to 193 complete games,
38 shutouts and a 1-1 World Series record.
Again, I ask: Why Drysdale and
not Pierce?
There can't be any dots to connect from Brooklyn to Los Angles back to
Cooperstown. Right?
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