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Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean (January 16, 1910 – July 17, 1974), also known as Jerome Herman Dean, was an American professional baseball player.[1] He played in Major League Baseball as a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Browns. A brash and colorful personality, Dean was the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in one season.[2] After his playing career, he became a popular television sports commentator. Dean was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953.[3] When the Cardinals reopened the team Hall of Fame in 2014, Dean was inducted among the inaugural class.
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The boys in the neighborhood would gather at this ones friend house on Saturday afternoon and listen and watch the game of the week, with Dizzy and PeeWee Reese!! You have to remember that baseball on TV was still a work in progress!! But we loved it! Oh to be a kid again and watch all my baseball heros of the era!!
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Maj Marty Hogan, I can remember watching the Game of the Week on CBS with my father. Dizzy Dean and Buddy Blattner called the games. Dean was hilarious!
SSG William Jones CPO Charles Helms
SSG William Jones CPO Charles Helms
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LTC Stephen C.
I guess I’m just older than you both, SSG William Jones and CPO Charles Helms! Buddy Blattner actually preceded Pee Wee Reese as Dizzy Dean’s broadcast partner!
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SSG William Jones
In 81 days, I will enter into my 71st year on Planet Earth. My age causes a few recall issues! Are you older than that? If you are, we both have learned that "gettin' old ain't fer sissies!!!"
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Maj Marty Hogan
Loved to watch Ol' Diz cohost the Game of the Week with Pee Wee Reese. Loved to hear him say "He SLUD into second..." and break out in singing "Wabash Cannonball". He promoted Falstaff Beer throughout the broadcast. Love the rivalry between him and Paul... and the time he took a throw square in the forehead to break up a double play. The old Gas House Gang was terrific!
Loved to watch Ol' Diz cohost the Game of the Week with Pee Wee Reese. Loved to hear him say "He SLUD into second..." and break out in singing "Wabash Cannonball". He promoted Falstaff Beer throughout the broadcast. Love the rivalry between him and Paul... and the time he took a throw square in the forehead to break up a double play. The old Gas House Gang was terrific!
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LTC Stephen C.
Used to see Pee Wee Reese frequently in Louisville, SSG William Jones, and actually met him once in the early eighties. Hillerich & Bradsby located their offices in the same building as my employer (I lived in Cincinnati, but we had offices in every city). I actually met him in the elevator! He looked more like this when we met though.
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SSG William Jones
LTC Stephen C.
I'm a lifelong native Kentuckian but never got to meet PeeWee. Met Mantle (got his autograph), Yogi (he stepped on my foot), and a score of others when at a Yanks-Orioles game years ago. A while back, I had my picture taken with Bobby Richardson, while he was speaking at 1st Baptist Church in Clarksville, TN.
I'm a lifelong native Kentuckian but never got to meet PeeWee. Met Mantle (got his autograph), Yogi (he stepped on my foot), and a score of others when at a Yanks-Orioles game years ago. A while back, I had my picture taken with Bobby Richardson, while he was speaking at 1st Baptist Church in Clarksville, TN.
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LTC Stephen C.
SSG William Jones, I also met Johnny Bench in an elevator! However, that time I was in Carew Tower in Cincinnati.
I met never Bobby Richardson, but I did meet Bucky Showalter in Nashville at a speaking engagement (c. 1998-1999). Got an autographed Arizona Diamondbacks hat (similar to the one shown) from him, back when their uniforms were colorful and unique.
My father played in the same baseball league as Yogi Berra, just before each entered the Navy during WWII (my father enlisted in the V-12 program on 1JUL43). They were in the Piedmont League and Dad played for the Roanoke Red Sox and Yogi played for the Norfolk Tars. They never met.
I met never Bobby Richardson, but I did meet Bucky Showalter in Nashville at a speaking engagement (c. 1998-1999). Got an autographed Arizona Diamondbacks hat (similar to the one shown) from him, back when their uniforms were colorful and unique.
My father played in the same baseball league as Yogi Berra, just before each entered the Navy during WWII (my father enlisted in the V-12 program on 1JUL43). They were in the Piedmont League and Dad played for the Roanoke Red Sox and Yogi played for the Norfolk Tars. They never met.
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