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Month: March 2016

  • The old Jose Lima Casa Olé TV spots

    My two years of living in Houston collided with Jose Lima‘s years with the Astros. Imagine my surprise when I saw Lima Time on TV promoting a local Mexican restaurant. Thanks yet again to the wonder of YouTube, we can watch them again. Still hard to believe he passed away so young.

  • Video: Sparky’s Hall of Fame induction speech

    Tooling around YouTube I got sucked into a Sparky Anderson search-fest. Here’s his Hall of Fame induction speech from 2000.

  • Video: 1989 NBC interview with Sparky

    This is right after Sparky came back from his leave of absence. Interesting, he makes no bones about the Tigers not developing young players — not since Kirk Gibson. Of course that’s why Sparky was saddled with such mediocre teams for his last seven years in Detroit.

  • March 10, 1983: George Kell elected to Hall of Fame

    From Baseball Reference: The Special Veterans Committee announces the election of Walter Alston and George Kell to the Hall of Fame. Alston managed the Dodgers in Brooklyn and Los Angeles to four World Series championships, while always working under one-year contracts. Kell, a standout third baseman primarily for the Detroit Tigers, batted over .300 nine…