tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post8396643007344077514..comments2024-03-18T20:39:01.965-07:00Comments on Raising Matt Cain: Dusty Rhodes, RIPM.C. O'Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258035192484655635noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post-41998965869558961062009-06-19T14:49:14.909-07:002009-06-19T14:49:14.909-07:00Check out the 2.381 OPS for the '54 Series.
H...Check out the <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rhodedu01.shtml" rel="nofollow">2.381 OPS</a> for the '54 Series.<br /><br />His real name was <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rhodedu01.shtml" rel="nofollow">James Lamar</a>, though I suppose any fellow in that Runyonesque era with a last name of "Rhodes" would be tagged with "Dusty."M.C. O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12258035192484655635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post-80132920714173366632009-06-19T12:43:49.207-07:002009-06-19T12:43:49.207-07:00"After his baseball career ended, Rhodes retu..."After his baseball career ended, Rhodes returned to New York, where he worked on a tugboat in New York Harbor. Tugs there flew their flags at half mast in his memory Thursday, his family said."Brother Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18162500140573910451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post-64897074202871956122009-06-19T11:07:59.444-07:002009-06-19T11:07:59.444-07:00Please see the obit in the NY Times by Bruce Weber...Please see the obit in the NY Times by Bruce Weber: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/sports/baseball/19rhodes.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries<br />He begins with this doubly sad sentence: "Dusty Rhodes, whose pinch-hitting heroics led the New York Giants to win the 1954 World Series, a championship the Giants, who moved to San Francisco four years later, have yet to repeat, died Wednesday in Las Vegas."Zonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post-21391727648846058102009-06-19T10:58:11.968-07:002009-06-19T10:58:11.968-07:00The Fresno Grizzlies visit Raley Field Wed July 1 ...The Fresno Grizzlies visit Raley Field Wed July 1 thru Fri 7/3 then again for a 5 game(!) series Aug. 26 thru 30.<br />Mark your calendars.Brother Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18162500140573910451noreply@blogger.com