Tugboat Takes Out The Rooster

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1. 77yankees
   December 31st, 2012 | 2:20 pm
   

   Captain looks out of the base line there, so that should have been a DP, but that’s the way those games were back then – not for the faint of heart.

   That was from this game in a very big 4th inning: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS197806200.shtml

   Three and a half months before another Yankee SS would take Mike Torrez into the net at Fenway, Fred “Bleepin’” Stanley would hit one almost as important to the Yankees pennant chase.

2. Steve L.
   December 31st, 2012 | 3:09 pm
   

   @ 77yankees:
   Ah, the old days, where, if you could still supposedly reach the base with a hand, you could take a shot at breaking up the DP…

3. Raf
   December 31st, 2012 | 6:36 pm
   

   Such a different game nowadays. People’ll come up swinging if you try that, when before it was just part of the game.

   No entry on takeout slides would be complete without Willie & McRae
   http://sports.cbsimg.net/images//visual/whatshot/mcrae.gif

   Hey, Buster Olney’s good for something after all!
   https://twitter.com/Buster_ESPN/status/258111900238352384

   http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/slideshow-10-great-photos-old-school-takeouts-181646439–mlb.html

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