There is a 26-foot tall statue on the Sarasota, Florida marina named "Unconditional Surrender" modeled after the famous photograph.
Helluva player.Brooklyn Dodgers legend Don Newcombe has died at the age of 92. A hard-nosed righthander from New Jersey, Newcombe pitched a single season for the Newark Eagles of the Negro National League before joining the Brooklyn minor league system in 1946, helping the Nashua Dodgers tear up the New England League in 1946 and 47, before spending 1948 in the International League at Montreal. When he arrived at Brooklyn in 1949, he immediately established himself as one of the top power pitchers in the game, earning the National League Rookie of the Year award by running up a 32-scoreless-inning streak and helping to pitch the Dodgers to a pennant. Except for two prime years lost to military service during the Korean conflict, he remained a mainstay of the Dodger rotation for the rest of the team's days in Brooklyn. He was also one of the most outspoken players on the field when it came time for arguing with umpires, and once had the distinction of being thrown out of a game he wasn't even playing in.
He moved to Los Angeles with the club in 1958, but it was a difficult adjustment -- and an escalating alcohol habit didn't help. The Dodgers traded him to Cincinnati, who then passed him on to Cleveland, and he finally ended his pitching career in Japan, a hard-drinking shell of his former self. But he got his drinking under control, and returned to the Dodger organization in 1970 as an executive, and also contributed to the game in general as a crusader against substance abuse, helping many troubled players and former players to get their lives back under control.
Newk was also a lifetime .271 hitter who was often used as a pinch-hitter in the late innings of games when he wasn't pitching. Stick that in your DH rule.
A small consolation to watching so many of my baseball heroes passing away is watching their sons and now grandsons moving up the ranks.
Brooklyn Dodgers legend Don Newcombe has died at the age of 92. A hard-nosed righthander from New Jersey, Newcombe pitched a single season for the Newark Eagles of the Negro National League before joining the Brooklyn minor league system in 1946, helping the Nashua Dodgers tear up the New England League in 1946 and 47, before spending 1948 in the International League at Montreal. When he arrived at Brooklyn in 1949, he immediately established himself as one of the top power pitchers in the game, earning the National League Rookie of the Year award by running up a 32-scoreless-inning streak and helping to pitch the Dodgers to a pennant. Except for two prime years lost to military service during the Korean conflict, he remained a mainstay of the Dodger rotation for the rest of the team's days in Brooklyn. He was also one of the most outspoken players on the field when it came time for arguing with umpires, and once had the distinction of being thrown out of a game he wasn't even playing in.
He moved to Los Angeles with the club in 1958, but it was a difficult adjustment -- and an escalating alcohol habit didn't help. The Dodgers traded him to Cincinnati, who then passed him on to Cleveland, and he finally ended his pitching career in Japan, a hard-drinking shell of his former self. But he got his drinking under control, and returned to the Dodger organization in 1970 as an executive, and also contributed to the game in general as a crusader against substance abuse, helping many troubled players and former players to get their lives back under control.
Newk was also a lifetime .271 hitter who was often used as a pinch-hitter in the late innings of games when he wasn't pitching. Stick that in your DH rule.
I would probably qualify to most people as a conservative male and I will tell you that if a woman says no it means no.
Awwww, man!
