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On December 27 in Baseball History...​
  • 1919 - One day after secretly working out a deal with the Yankees to sell Babe Ruth to the Yankees, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces that Boston will deal any player except Harry Hooper. Hooper will be sent to the White Sox after the 1920 season.

  • 1981 - Fernando Valenzuela becomes the fifth Los Angeles Dodger to become Southern California Athlete of the Year honors. It winds up an autumn of awards for Valenzuela, who won both the Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards -- the first NL pitcher to do so -- and also earned a World Series ring with the Dodgers.

  • 1984 - Free agent pitcher Ed Whitson, who went 14-8 for the NL champion Padres, begins a nightmarish association with the Yankees by signing a five-year $4.4 million contract. By the middle of his second year with the club, he gets so rattled in New York that he can only pitch on the road. The Yankees ship him back to San Diego, where he has four solid years.

  • 1994 - The Chiba Lotte Marines announced that Julio Franco, Pete Incaviglia and Eric Hillman had been signed to contracts. They would play for fellow American Bobby Valentine, the 1st American manager in professional Japanese baseball.
 
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mad4vols said:
Did you ever run the Thanksgiving Day predict your time race on Cherokee Blvd? Did it several times in the 70’s? I forget the distance but you weren’t allowed to wear a watch, who ever got closest to their predicted time at the finish won, my sister won it one year.
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no
i usually had choice of taking thanksgiving week or holidays
chose holidays
 
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ArdentVol said:
vance, his dad
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I know Vance well, but I didn’t know his father. Vance pitched to me when I played pee wee at the polo field. He later pitched to my kids at Lakeshore Park in KYS. Vance is a great guy and has the world’s highest ERA. He really tries hard to get the ball to hit the bat. @Volprofch05 - if you’re kids are playing baseball, I recommend KYS at Lakeshore Park, and particularly what’s known as Vance pitch.

Scroll down for a write up and video when Vance was inducted into the Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame: Meet the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame class of 2022
 
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@1RBFjr said:
I know Vance well, but I didn’t know his father. Vance pitched to me when I played pee wee at the polo field. He later pitched to my kids at Lakeshore Park in KYS. Vance is a great guy and has the world’s highest ERA. He really tries hard to get the ball to hit the bat. @Volprofch05 - if you’re kids are playing baseball, I recommend KYS at Lakeshore Park, and particularly what’s known as Vance pitch.

Scroll down for a write up and video when Vance was inducted into the Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame: Meet the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame class of 2022
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Thanks for the suggestion! We do get out to lakeshore park quite a bit to hit the playground or walk along the water and I had noted that they have nice fields there.
 
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@1RBFjr said:
I know Vance well, but I didn’t know his father. Vance pitched to me when I played pee wee at the polo field. He later pitched to my kids at Lakeshore Park in KYS. Vance is a great guy and has the world’s highest ERA. He really tries hard to get the ball to hit the bat. @Volprofch05 - if you’re kids are playing baseball, I recommend KYS at Lakeshore Park, and particularly what’s known as Vancepitch.

Scroll down for a write up and video when Vance was inducted into the Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame: Meet the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame class of 2022
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extra like for HOF story
Vance and I were on same LL team
his Dad was very active in LL while I lived in Kville
my brother coached and remained active in Sequoyah LL in 70s an possibly longer
Vance actually was pretty good LL pitcher if I recall, so I enjoyed hearing about your experience with him
think my dad knew Hoyt C.
remember Willie Poplar well. Think I may have been on basketball floor a couple of times against him
 
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ArdentVol said:
extra like for HOF story
Vance and I were on same LL team
his Dad was very active in LL while I lived in Kville
my brother coached and remained active in Sequoyah LL in 70s an possibly longer
Vance actually was pretty good LL pitcher if I recall, so I enjoyed hearing about your experience with him
think my dad knew Hoyt C.
remember Willie Poplar well. Think I may have been on basketball floor a couple of times against him
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Man, you guys had some good ones! My little league coach at Christenberry would show up drunk most of the time and would constantly hit on the moms!
One dad got in a fight with him and pulled his kid off the team.
On most occasions a couple of the dads would handle practice or games.😂
Now my football coach was a different story!
He was like the Bill Parcells of pee wee football!
 
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