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Post by ZbiSal on Oct 1, 2023 6:57:01 GMT -5
Another question about baseball and horse.
There is a short story about a horse playing for major league team. Name a title and an author of this story.
BAMN
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Post by my2cents on Oct 1, 2023 7:39:22 GMT -5
Hal Higdon The Horse That Played Center Field
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Post by ZbiSal on Oct 1, 2023 8:00:46 GMT -5
Hal Higdon The Horse That Played Center Field Sorry, not this. I ask about short story. I lack the information how long short story should be, but "The Horse That Played Center Field" is, in my humble opinion, too long to be short story. I forgot to mention that horse in question played for a team that really existed, not a fictious one, like New York Goats.
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Post by Lefteroo on Oct 1, 2023 11:51:19 GMT -5
Mark Twain the author?
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Post by ZbiSal on Oct 1, 2023 12:08:09 GMT -5
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Post by my2cents on Oct 1, 2023 13:32:55 GMT -5
Hal Higdon The Horse That Played Center Field Sorry, not this. I ask about short story. I lack the information how long short story should be, but "The Horse That Played Center Field" is, in my humble opinion, too long to be short story. I forgot to mention that horse in question played for a team that really existed, not a fictious one, like New York Goats. 128 pages in big type probably qualifies ( typically under 20,000 words)
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Post by my2cents on Oct 1, 2023 13:39:37 GMT -5
Schramm, Wilbur. "My Kingdom for Jones."
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Post by ZbiSal on Oct 2, 2023 1:43:58 GMT -5
Schramm, Wilbur. "My Kingdom for Jones." That's it. Once again quick and correct answer. My congratulations. "My Kingdom for Jones" Wilbur Schramm, short story, Appeared in "The Saturday Evening Post", Nov. 25, 1944. About a horse playing briefly third base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. They tried the horse at second and short, but he was a little slow on the pivot when compared with men like Napoleon Lajoie. Then they tried him at third base and knew that was the right, the inevitable, place. He was a Great Wall of China. He was a flash of brown lightning. In fact, he covered half the shortstop's territory and two-thirds of left field, and even came behind the plate to help the catcher with foul tips.
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Post by ZbiSal on Oct 2, 2023 6:36:37 GMT -5
About horses in the majors ...
Dale Mohorcic "Horse" Lou Gehrig "Iron Horse" Angel Pagan "Crazy Horse" Lou Meyers "Crazy Horse" Yasiel Puig "Wild Horse" Neill Sheridan "Wild Horse" Michael Chavis "Ice Horse" Alex Colome "The Horse" Matt Cain "The Horse" Tyler Glasnow "Mini Horse" John Orsino "Horse" Pepper Martin "The Wild Horse of the Osage" Bob Lee "Horse" Harry Anderson "Harry the Horse" Harry Danning "Harry the Horse" Joe Sargent "Horse Belly" Chief Yellowhorse Hanson Horsey Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn Old Hoss Twineham Joe Ardner "Old Hoss" Riggs Stephenson "Old Hoss" Horace Clarke "Hoss" Steve Korcheck "Hoss" Art Hoelskoetter "Hoss" Weldon Bowlin "Hoss" Pony Sager Jimmy Ryan "Pony" Sandy Alomar Sr. "Iron Pony" Colt Hynes Colt Morton Ray Fosse "Marion Mule" Frank Lary "Mule" Dick Dietz "Mule" Cliff Fannin "Mule" Milt Watson "Mule" Charlie Peete "Mule" Joe Sprinz "Mule" Mule Haas Mule Watson
Honorable mention:
Mule Suttles - Negro leaguer and Hall of Famer Yellowhorse Morris - Negro leaguer Hoss Walker - Negro leaguer Roberto Clemente - horse Roberto, named after him, owned by Pittsburgh Pirates owner John Galbreath, won Epsom Derby, most prestigious race in England, in 1972.
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Post by my2cents on Oct 2, 2023 9:00:21 GMT -5
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Post by ZbiSal on Oct 3, 2023 6:33:22 GMT -5
I've found an ad of donkey baseball game here. Something real bizarre.
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Post by Lefteroo on Oct 3, 2023 11:27:18 GMT -5
I remember seeing film clips (newsreel-esque) of donkey baseball on some sports shows when I was a kid. I remember a player riding his donkey to third base, and the narrator said, "Slide, you jackass, slide!"
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Post by my2cents on Oct 3, 2023 12:54:07 GMT -5
I remember seeing film clips (newsreel-esque) of donkey baseball on some sports shows when I was a kid. I remember a player riding his donkey to third base, and the narrator said, "Slide, you jackass, slide!" How come the software did change that to jacka$$?
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Post by Lefteroo on Oct 3, 2023 13:17:37 GMT -5
Maybe it realized I was referring to a donkey?
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