HOF Don Sutton. He was a good guy.
Random fact: Sutton was on the 1984 Brewers. With his death, every 1984 major league team has at least one deceased player. Ugh.
HOF Don Sutton. He was a good guy.
Random fact: Sutton was on the 1984 Brewers. With his death, every 1984 major league team has at least one deceased player. Ugh.
Last edited by getfoul; 01-19-2021 at 05:18 PM.
marcshoe (01-19-2021)
Ken Rosenthal @Ken_Rosenthal
RIP Don Sutton. Great pitcher, great personality. Condolences to Daron and the entire family.
Daron Sutton @lifeisgreatsut
Saddened to share that my dad passed away in his sleep last night. He worked as hard as anyone I’ve ever known and he treated those he encountered with great respect...and he took me to work a lot. For all these things, I am very grateful. Rest In Peace.
Last edited by Ron Madden; 01-19-2021 at 05:50 PM.
50YrRedsFan (01-19-2021),HokieRed (01-19-2021),RED VAN HOT (01-19-2021)
His last career game was against the Reds at Riverfront, a game I was at with my dad. Bo Diaz and Paul O’Neill were the last 2 to homer off him.
...the 2-2 to Woodsen and here it comes...and it is swung on and missed! And Tom Browning has pitched a perfect game! Twenty-seven outs in a row, and he is being mobbed by his teammates, just to the thirdbase side of the mound.
cumberlandreds (01-21-2021),KeefeCato (01-20-2021)
The 2021 Field of Dreams Team signs their first big-name player, a HOF right-handed pitcher for the top of their rotation.
Transactions
Signed RHP Don Sutton.
Roster
RHP Don Sutton
RHP Tom Acker
LHP Tommy Lasorda
2B Pedro Gonzalez
Last edited by Big Klu; 01-19-2021 at 10:57 PM.
Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman. Damn glad to meet ya.
I read once that Don come from very humble beginnings. House he grew up in had dirt floors.
Like anyone here who grew up watching the big red machine you respected but hated all Dodgers.
I grew to like Sutton after he bashed Garvey in the papers.
Really liked him on those Brewers teams. Those teams were fun to watch in the 80s.
RIP Don 2021 is shaping up like it is going to suck like 2020 did.
Big Klu (01-20-2021),RED VAN HOT (01-20-2021)
That was one heck of a team stacked with hall of famers last year. No offence but here is hoping the 2021 team has added it's final member.Originally Posted by Big Klu
Big Klu (01-20-2021),cumberlandreds (01-21-2021),Ron Madden (01-20-2021),WrongVerb (01-20-2021)
Don Sutton reportedly only lost one game while a high school pitcher in Clio, Alabama. Although he struck out 14 batters in a game against Foley High School, he lost to Foley's ace southpaw, who struck out 16. Although the Foley pitcher had contract offers from the Pirates, Astros and Yankees he never played pro baseball, opting instead to stick with football-He was Ken Stabler.
It would have been great to have attended the Sutton-Stabler pitching duel.
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
Big Klu (01-20-2021),cumberlandreds (01-21-2021),RED VAN HOT (01-20-2021),Revering4Blue (01-22-2021),RichRed (01-20-2021),Ron Madden (01-20-2021)
"I can make all the stadiums rock."
-Air Supply
Big Klu (01-20-2021),cumberlandreds (01-21-2021)
I read a couple of stories on Don Sutton. One I had heard of before, the other was news to me.
First the story I had forgotten. In the late 1970s Sutton and Steve Garvey reportedly got in a fight after Sutton told the media that Reggie Smith was the Dodgers best player but he didn't get the attention because he didn't smile all the time like Garvey [Sutton was correct].
The new story was a report that the A's almost signed Sutton during the same era [mid 1960s] that A's owner Charles O. Finley was signing Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Vida Blue, "Blue Moon" Odom, et al, as young pitchers. Whitey Herzog was trying to get Finley to sign Sutton but Finley balked at Sutton's demand for a $ 16,000 signing bonus. Knowing that Finley loved, and had created, nicknames, Herzog asked Sutton if he had a nickname, hoping that would get Finley to approve the signing. Sutton replied that Herzog could tell Finley that his nickname was "*****face" and he still wanted the $ 16,000. Finley still didn't approve.
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
Chip R (01-22-2021),cumberlandreds (01-21-2021),Revering4Blue (01-22-2021),RichRed (01-21-2021),Ron Madden (01-21-2021)
Outstanding pitcher for the Dodgers and other teams. He was a model of consistency which got him into the HOF. He was the starting pitcher for the Dodgers in the July 1,1973 game that started the Reds comeback that season. Hal King homered off him on the 9th for the walk off win. RIP Don Sutton.
Reds Fan Since 1971
Revering4Blue (01-22-2021),Roy Tucker (01-21-2021)
1/20/2020...ex Giant: Mike Sadek, age 74. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...ies-74-illness
Attachment 16908
cumberlandreds (01-21-2021)
The 2021 Field of Dreams Team signs a veteran backup catcher.
Transactions
Signed C Mike Sadek.
Roster
RHP Don Sutton
RHP Tom Acker
LHP Tommy Lasorda
C Mike Sadek
2B Pedro Gonzalez
Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman. Damn glad to meet ya.
Damn, Hank Aaron. Maybe the greatest combination of player/person in baseball history.
"I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great." - Joe Posnanski
Revering4Blue (01-22-2021),UKFlounder (01-22-2021)
April 6, 2020 - Al Kaline
Aug. 31, 2020 - Tom Seaver
Sept. 6, 2020 - Lou Brock
Oct. 2, 2020 - Bob Gibson
Oct. 8, 2020 - Whitey Ford
Oct. 11, 2020 - Lou Brock
Dec. 26, 2020 - Phil Niekro
Jan. 7, 2021 - Tommy Lasorda
Jan. 19, 2021 - Don Sutton
Jan. 21, 2021 - Hank Aaron
He's one of the few men I'll pour one out for.
He's also the owner of my favorite statistic of all time: 3016
Three thousand and sixteen hits is the number of hits Hank Aaron has IF you take away all his home runs.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
cumberlandreds (01-22-2021),UKFlounder (01-22-2021)
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