Baseball Notebook: Merry Christmas!!!...Cuddles Marshall Dies
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by Niteowl049
I want to thank all of the 15,636 visitors to Baseball Etcetera since May 20, 2006 when I first started keeping track of visitors via use of the Site Meter counter that was mentioned to me by one of the readers. The first post was in May of 2004 and archives are available of the days when the blog used to be a gigantic paragraph and now is in more readable form.
This has been an interesting year with the move from Pineville, Louisiana to Knoxville, Tennessee so there have been more gaps without any posts than usual. I am sorry this happened in the most exciting part of the baseball season.
Anyone wishing to comment is welcome. What I write is only my opinion and nothing more. I have been following baseball since the 1950's but that doesn't mean I know everything about baseball.
So if you don't agree or want to add to something I write you are welcome to make any comments you want as long as there is no vulgar language or flaming.
I want to extend best wishes for a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you and also to the readers of ArmchairGM.com and Jaythejoke.com where these posts are also published..
Recent Deaths of Baseball Players
Reader Ron Sayles has advised me of two recent deaths of baseball players. Cuddles Marshall died at the age of 82 in Saugus, California. He pitched for the New York Yankees and St. Louis Browns during his four year career and finished with a 7-7 record. He was awarded a World Series ring when the Yankees beat the Dodgers that year. He entered the record books by becoming the first Yankee pitcher to start a night game in Yankee Stadium in 1946.
He picked up the name Cuddles according to baseballlibrary.com because of his matinee idol looks as a rookie. On a sad note some workers at his home stole his World Series ring but 20 years later his daughter had it recast for him.
Jack Lamabe died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana last Friday at the age of 71. Lamabe was born in Farmingdale, New York on October 3, 1936. Lamabe had a 33-41 record in seven major league seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, Houston Astros, Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals, and Chicago Cubs. He was a member of the 1967 Cardinals who won the World Series that season.
After he retired from playing baseball he became the first full-time baseball manager for the LSU team and spent the rest of his life in Baton Rouge.
Clemens May be Telling the Truth
Roger Clemens may be telling the truth after all. I just can't see him making a statement like he did on the video unless he is telling the truth. If he is lying, it will ruin his credibility forever. Either he or Brian McNamee his former trainer is lying. It remains to be seen if Clemens can produce evidence to substantiate his words on the video. I do have a problem with Clemens firing McNamee as his trainer and wonder if McNamee isn't getting back at Clemens. I am sure the doors were closed if McNamee did inject him so there are no other witnesses and Clemens left no paper trail that I know of.
Either Clemens is telling the truth or he is setting himself up for a media blitz of stories about him lying to the baseball fans of America. Maybe Clemens knows there is no evidence to contradict his statements other than what McNamee has given to the Mitchell investigators.
Hopefully, time will tell who is telling the truth and who isn't but right now I still have to give Clemens benefit of the doubt since there is no smoking gun evidence out there right now except for the words of a possibly embittered McNamee.
