Roundball wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 2:00 pm
gofurman wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 4:15 am
purplehorse123 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 12:07 am
I assume 2nd baseman from Yankees who I met at a camp & played ping pong with him.
purplehorse123,
This guy? YES he was a 2nd baseman.. that's awesome !
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NEW YORK -- It’s been 61 years since former Yankees second baseman Bobby Richardson had a World Series for the ages. Yes, when people think of the 1960 Fall Classic, they think of Bill Mazeroski’s Game 7 homer -- the first series-clinching walk-off HR in MLB history -- that gave the Pirates their first championship since '25. But Richardson was the man, and MVP, of that seven-game series, the only player in baseball history to win the award on the losing team.
Richardson set the record for the most RBIs in the series with 12, which still stands today. Former Yankees public relations director Marty Appel calls him every October to tell him that the record is still intact.
“Appel knows that in Sumter, South Carolina, we don’t always follow [the record] really close,” the 86-year-old Richardson said via telephone. “So he makes sure I know.”
Richardson said he sometimes runs into Pirates fans while vacationing on Pawleys Island in South Carolina, and they will tell him that Mazeroski was the MVP.
“It’s nothing personal. They are good baseball fans," Richardson said. "The average person doesn’t realize [what I did]."
Speaking of. Bobby Richardson. “Baseball Great Bobby Richardson Deserving of Highest Honor.”
https://www.newsmax.com/amp/vanhipp/ger ... d/1202344/
Roundball, THANK YOU !
I hadn't seen this. Ya'll ought to read his book, I think it is "Impact Player". didn't mean to high jack the thread but as
we agree, sometimes the best guy isn't on the winning team !
"Richardson turns 90 this year, and was recently the subject of SC ETV’s documentary, "Graceball: The Bobby Richardson Story."
That documentary underscores how the holder of several World Series records will be remembered "most for the grace and decency he showed while using baseball as a platform to spread goodwill."
An eight time All Star, he won five straight Gold Glove Awards and three World Series titles. The Yankee’s original "Mr. October," Bobby Richardson was the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the 1960 World Series, becoming the only player in baseball history to be named World Series MVP despite his team not winning the series.
His record of most RBIs (Run Batted Ins) in a World Series still stands.
No one has collected more hits in a World Series than Richardson.
He still holds the record for having played in 30 consecutive World Series games.
It’s his life off the field, though, which has served as an example to generations of young people in America. A strong Christian, Bobby was heavily involved in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes both during and after his baseball career.
Additionally, he served as president of Baseball Chapel for 10 years, following his playing career. He also appeared at five Billy Graham Crusades and served on the President’s Council for Physical Fitness.
More recently, he’s even helped to start the Richardson Medical Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to assisting children with unmet medical needs."
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This is the guy you would want your son to emulate. I have met him several times and he is amazing. No showboating etc... And he was surrounded by the all-time best and yet many of them say he was both the best on the field and CLEARLY off the field "Former Yankee Bobby Richardson played alongside Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford, Joe Pepitone, and Yogi Berra during one of the most prolific dynasties in baseball history, and he remains to this day the only player from the losing team ever to be named World Series MVP.
Great man
