Bobby Shantz
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2022 5:50 pm
I'm currently participating in a 60s Mystery League, and Shantz is my ace reliever.
I researched him today and found some fascinating tidbits about him..
1) He's still alive. Today, 2/15, he's 96 years 142 days old.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/play ... bo01.shtml
2) He was vertically challenged, as he was only 5 foot 6-1/2 inches tall.
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/bobby-shantz/
3) He was pitching for the Yankees in that pivotal 1960 World Series Game 7 in the 8th inning when Tony Kubek was hit in the throat by the bad hop ground ball that would likely have been a double play otherwise and gotten the Yankees out of the inning. Instead, it lead to a 5 run inning for the Pirates, and they went from a 7-4 deficit to a 9-7 lead. Shantz could have ended up being the winning pitcher if not for that bad luck.
I'm thinking about creating a special ATG set of 1949 - 1964 players (covering the years that he played). I was going to give the league the name of "Ready to Take a Shantz Again". Any interest??
I researched him today and found some fascinating tidbits about him..
1) He's still alive. Today, 2/15, he's 96 years 142 days old.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/play ... bo01.shtml
2) He was vertically challenged, as he was only 5 foot 6-1/2 inches tall.
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/bobby-shantz/
3) He was pitching for the Yankees in that pivotal 1960 World Series Game 7 in the 8th inning when Tony Kubek was hit in the throat by the bad hop ground ball that would likely have been a double play otherwise and gotten the Yankees out of the inning. Instead, it lead to a 5 run inning for the Pirates, and they went from a 7-4 deficit to a 9-7 lead. Shantz could have ended up being the winning pitcher if not for that bad luck.
I'm thinking about creating a special ATG set of 1949 - 1964 players (covering the years that he played). I was going to give the league the name of "Ready to Take a Shantz Again". Any interest??