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The Dodgers purchased 39-year-old Sal Maglie from the Cleveland Indians in mid-May 1956 and was named Game One starter in the World Series The 1956 World Series was the sixth between the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers in 10 years.1 The American League champion Yankees clinched the pennant on September 16 and finished the season with a record of 97-57 nine games ahead of the second-place Cleveland Indians The defending World Series champion Dodgers won a tight three-team pennant race in the National League They clinched the pennant on the final day of the season and finished with a record of 93-61 edging out the Milwaukee Braves by a game and the Cincinnati Reds by two The breezy early-autumn Wednesday afternoon featured a Game One matchup between a pair of veteran World Series hurlers Yankees manager Casey Stengel turned to Whitey Ford Given Ebbets Field’s short porch in left field and the Dodgers’ right-hander-dominated lineup starting the left-handed Ford seemed like a bit of a gamble The 28-year-old Ford went 19-6 during the regular season and led the American League in ERA (2.47) and winning percentage (.760) The Dodgers right-hander bounced back from a subpar 1955 season and went 13-5 with a 2.87 ERA after being acquired from the Cleveland Indians on May 15 The Yankees got off to a quick start in the top of the first After Hank Bauer opened the game by grounding out to third Enos Slaughter reached on an infield single who captured the circuit’s Triple Crown with a .353 batting average and later received the AL’s Most Valuable Player Award homered to deep right to give the Yankees an early 2-0 lead The home run was the first of three Mantle hit in the seven-game Series Maglie struck out Bill Skowron and Gil McDougald to end the inning After the game Maglie explained Mantle’s tremendous home run – some reports said it found its way on to Bedford Avenue beyond the right-field stands5 – to reporters. Maglie said, “I didn’t mean to get it that far over the plate. It was a slider and it broke right smack on his bat.”6 Ford pitched a one-two-three inning in the bottom of the first and Maglie followed suit in the top of the second The Dodgers evened the score in the bottom of the second Jackie Robinson hit a home run to deep left on Ford’s first pitch of the inning First baseman Gil Hodges followed with a single to center field and scored when right fielder Carl Furillo doubled to left-center Hodges scored in large part because Mantle who was not fully recovered from a groin injury was unable to get over and cut the ball off before it went to the wall Ford settled down and retired the next three batters to escape further damage The Yankees got one back in the top of the fourth when second baseman Billy Martin hit a one-out home run to left to make the score 5-3 Ford’s day ended when Stengel had seldom-used outfielder George Wilson pinch-hit for the Yankees ace Ford later dispelled any notions that his early exit might have been precipitated by an injury. “Just didn’t have it,” Ford explained to reporters. “No excuses of any kind. They hit me hard. I wasn’t getting the ball where I wanted it to go.”8 Ford bounced back three days later and threw a complete-game victory in Game Three at Yankee Stadium Right-hander Johnny Kucks came on to start the bottom of the fourth for the Yankees The 24-year-old enjoyed a career year in 1956 He was named to the American League All-Star team and finished with a record of 18-9 and a 3.85 ERA Roy Campanella greeted Kucks with a double to center and the Dodgers catcher scored when left fielder Sandy Amorós singled to center Maglie attempted to sacrifice Amorós to second but instead bunted into a 3-6-4 double play Jim Gilliam reached on an error by first baseman Skowron and stole second but the inning ended when Kucks struck out Reese looking Kucks retired the Dodgers in order in the bottom of the fifth and was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the top of the sixth pitched a scoreless sixth and seventh and right-hander Bob Turley pitched a one-two-three eighth for the Yankees Maglie continued to keep the Yankees off the scoreboard for the remainder of the game The 39-year-old “Barber” scattered four hits and three walks over his last five innings of work and got Mantle to ground into a 4-6-3 double play to end the game The time of the game was 2 hours and 32 minutes The story of the game was the pitching of Maglie. He masterfully worked his way out of “crisis after crisis”9 on his way to the complete-game victory Dodgers manager Walter Alston visited the mound and seriously considered pulling Maglie in the fifth he stayed with Maglie who gave up nine hits and three runs (all earned) while walking four and striking out 10 The Yankees left six of their nine stranded runners on base in the last five innings The victory was Maglie’s first in postseason play He had made starts in both the 1951 and 1954 World Series when he was a member of the New York Giants he was the loser in Game Four of the 1951 Series against the Yankees and had a no-decision in Game One of the 1954 Series against the Cleveland Indians Five days after this game, Maglie made his second start of the Series in Game Five at Yankee Stadium. He tossed another complete game, yielding only two runs on five hits.12 However authoring the only perfect game in World Series history as the Yankees went on to win the Series in seven games In addition to the sources cited in the Notes, the author consulted Baseball-Reference.com and Retrosheet.org 1 The Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers also met in the World Series in 1947 The Brooklyn ballclub won its only World Series in 1955 2 Dwight Eisenhower defeated Adlai Stevenson in a landslide election victory one month later 3 Marty Appel Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Greatest Character (New York: Doubleday 4 Dana Mozley “Ike Threw Curve Strike to Open Series: Campy,” New York Daily News 5 Jim McCulley 6 McCulley 7 Dick Young “Sal Shaves Yanks in Opener,” New York Daily News 8 McCulley 9 Young 10 McCulley 11 McCulley 12 Maglie was credited with a complete game despite being pinch-hit for in the top of the ninth inning by Dale Mitchell struck out to become the final out of Larsen’s perfect game If you can help us improve this game story, contact us Postseason · 1950s · Ebbets Field greatest games · Meet the Staff Board of Directors Annual Reports Inclusivity Statement Contact SABR Volume 10 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1128154 Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is the most common autoimmune bullous disease characterized by severe pruritus and skin blistering The loss of tolerance against Collagen XVII leading to production of IgG autoantibodies which mainly target the juxtamembranous extracellular non-collagenous 16th A (NC16A) domain of BP180 A complex inflammatory network is activated upon autoantibody binding to the basement membrane zone; this inflammatory loop involves the complement cascade and the release of several inflammatory cytokines chemokines and proteases from keratinocytes these events disrupt the integrity of the dermal-epidermal junction Recent advances have led to identify novel therapeutic targets for BP whose management is mainly based on the long-term use of topical and systemic corticosteroids targeting type-2 T-helper cell-associated cytokines such as Interleukin-4 and interleukin-13 has shown meaningful clinical efficacy in case series and studies; targeting IL-17 and IL-23 has also been tried owing to an important role of these cytokines in the chronic maintenance phase of BP we discuss the complex cytokine milieu that characterized BP inflammation which are currently investigated as present and future therapeutic targets for this life-threatening disease Bullous Pemphigoid encompasses a heterogeneous spectrum of manifestations. The classic type is characterized by diffuse tense blisters arising on a background of erythematous-edematous skin (5). Pruritus is always present and, in some patients, may precede for years the appearance of manifest lesions (6). Further, several non-bullous forms have been described (7) Pathogenically, IgG binding to either BP180 or BP230 activates a cascade of inflammatory mediators resulting in the loss of dermal-epidermal adhesion (18). The increasing knowledge of this complex inflammatory cascade is pivotal for developing new therapeutic strategies for the disease, as its therapeutic management is still largely based on long-term immunosuppressive treatments (10) the purpose of this review is to provide a concise overview of the cytokine milieu of BP with a special focus on molecules currently under-investigation as potential therapeutic targets supporting a positive feedback loop between activated Th2 cells and eosinophils Schematic representation of immune cells and molecules involved in the pathogenesis of bullous pemphigoid IgE attaching BP180 located in the dermal-epidermal junction Epidermal cells react by releasing interleukin (IL) 6 and 8 this process leads to the recruitment of immune cells (mast cells and eosinophils) which infiltrate the skin and release inflammatory interleukins (IL) and proteolytic enzymes T cells contribute to this inflammatory process by releasing interleukins at both peripheral (blood) and lesional (skin) level IL-31 are crucially involved in B cell proliferation antibody production and Ig-class switching while IL-17 support neutrophil recruitment immune cells induce expression of chemokines The result of this process is the formation of erythematous urticarial plaques and dermal-epidermal splitting causative of blistering tumor growth factor β; IFN-ɣ Table 1. Overview of immunological players involved in the pathogenesis of bullous pemphigoid according to findings from serological, blister fluid, skin samples, and mice models analysis as well as their current clinical relevance based on ongoing and terminated clinical trials (published or registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov B regulatory cells function in BP appears to be impaired. B regulatory cells are increased in the circulation of BP patients but show an inflammatory, rather than regulatory, phenotype secreting IFN-ɣ, IL-4, and TNF-α instead of IL-10 (35). Different studies reported that serum levels of B-cell activating factor (BAFF), a protein which regulates and stimulates B cell differentiation, is up-regulated in BP (36, 37) These observational data question whether skin infiltrating T regs show undiminished suppression capacity in BP A last consequence of complement activation in BP is the formation of the terminal membrane attack complex which exerts direct cytotoxic effects in the epidermal basal cells It is thus possible that both complement-dependent and complement-independent mechanisms work together in inducing and perpetuating BP inflammation and blistering (85) Cross talk between immune cells is likely to potentiate the effector functions of granulocytes. Accordingly, neutrophils in BP release significantly more ROS and MMP-9 when stimulated with monocyte supernatants in vitro (113). Recently, Granzyme B was shown to critically regulate monocyte-dependent neutrophil recruitment in BP, and its inhibition significantly ameliorated pemphigoid disease induced by immunization with anti-COL7 antibodies in mice (114) Monocytes and neutrophils are also activated by CXCL10, whose levels are increased in early-relapsing patients and is produced by keratinocytes, fibroblasts, and infiltrating immune cells (115) Tissue resident macrophages are increased in BP skin and are mainly polarized toward the M2 phenotype, which express CD163 and CD206 (116, 117). M2 macrophages produce large amounts of Th2-type cytokines and stimulate T-cell and eosinophil recruitment by releasing CCL18, CCL22, CCL24, and CCL2 (117, 118) Furthermore, CD163+ M2 macrophages stimulated by LL37 in vitro produced CXCL10 and CCL20 as well CXCR5+, CXCL13+, which contribute to recruitment of TFH cells (43, 117) Until now, several targeted therapies for BP have been developed, including (i) cell-depleting therapies; (ii) autoantibody-targeting therapies and (iii) single cytokine/molecule-directed therapies (Table 1) complement activation has served as an attractive target in BP owing to the established role in BP pathogenesis demonstrated in animal studies In one study blockage of C1s by the specific inhibitor, TNT003, successfully blocked the complement activating capacity of BP sera. Likewise, Gutjahr et al. (141) found that tinzaparin sodium inhibited autoantibody-induced complement activation in BP sera More recently, Sadik et al. (142) reported the results of a phase IIa non-randomized clinical trial of BP patients treated with nomacopan (NCT05061771), an inhibitor of leukotriene B4 and complement C5. Seven of the nine patients recruited demonstrated remarkable reduction of Bullous Pemphigoid Disease Area Index (BPDAI) and pruritus after approximately 1.5 months. No serious adverse events were reported (Table 1) it will be intriguing to evaluate the efficacy of nemolizumab An intriguing aspect of the pathogenesis of BP is that antibody/antigen binding activates different pathways which seem to act in parallel rather than as a single cascade combining different target therapies will represent a feasible way to reduce the cumulative exposure of patients to systemic steroids combination of rituximab and dupilumab might effectively target the T-B-cell cross-talk involved in the loss of tolerance against BP autoantigens; while combination of anti-complement drugs and either neutrophil-or eosinophil-targeting therapies might be best suited to impair the effector phase of BP inflammation and pruritus with the number of available therapeutic options rapidly increasing clinicians should focus on identifying comorbidities non-bullous phenotypes and pruritus intensity) eosinophil-rich infiltrates at histopathology or the intensity of complement deposition at direct immunofluorescence (DIF)] and serological findings (e.g. titer of IgG and IgE antibodies against BP180/BP230) or molecular factors (e.g. cytokine concentration) which may influence therapy-response and decision-making and CP contributed to the writing and speculation All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version This study was supported by the “Progetto Ricerca Corrente” and “Ricerca Finalizzata” (N.12367807) of the Italian Ministry of Health The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher Pemphigus and pemphigoid: from disease mechanisms to 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Privacy Policy | Terms of Service A great former Bisons pitcher who became one of the best Major Leaguers every to come out of the Western New York region is now being celebrated with a new mural on the side of DeFazio's Stadium Grill in Niagara Falls for the completion of a Sal Maglie mural in the side of the 1234 Hyde Park Boulevard establishment The mural was also partially funded by a Niagara Falls Corporation business grant The mural was completed this month by the talented Alessandra Price of Grand Island During the check presentation Alessandra read a statement to those in attendance as an artist who deeply values and seeks to highlight our local history It is an honor to have had the opportunity to create this piece inspired by the life and legacy of Sal Maglie a pitcher born and laid to rest right here in Niagara Falls But this project carries even greater personal meaning The location of the mural on the side of the Stadium Grill holds a special place in my heart and I wanted to pay tribute to the cherished memories for those here and the ones who have passed.” Sal “The Barber” Maglie was a native of Niagara Falls with a major league career that spanned over ten years and a 3.15 earned run average and was the only player ever to play on all three New York City teams Maglie pitched in three seasons with the Bisons DeFazio’s Stadium Grill is located across the street from Sal Maglie Stadium dedicated forty years ago this week in honor of the most famous major league baseball player in the history of Niagara Falls Ninth in an 11-part series examining the vagaries of awards voting Not to paint a picture that Maglie reaped undue reward for a marginal season he was a key starter who contributed mightily to a pennant winner—but in my opinion his runner-up finishes for the MVP and Cy Young Award came at the expense of more-deserving candidates jumped to the Pasquale Brothers’ outlaw Mexican League nearly aborting his career before it started who had enjoyed a successful 20-year NL career Luque taught Maglie to be a more aggressive pitcher soon transforming Maglie into one of the most feared moundsmen in the National League for his eagerness to throw high and inside “The Barber.” (Despite his nasty reputation Maglie hit only 44 batters in his 10-year major league career.) Temporarily banned from the majors for his outlaw days Maglie pitched in Canada before returning to the Giants in 1950 he unleashed his talent and temper on National League batters to the tune of an 18-4 record In the Giants’ legendary 1951 campaign, Maglie reached his apex, tying with teammate Larry Jansen for the major league lead in victories In 1955, despite ringing up nine victories through July, the defending champs put Maglie on waivers. Quickly claimed by the Cleveland Indians he hurled a mere 25.2 innings the rest of the season and looked to be near the end of the line the borough of Brooklyn did a collective double take as their defending champions purchased the reviled Maglie from the Tribe During his first two months in Dodger blue used as both a spot starter and a reliever (He won his start previous to July 28 but did not pitch well and claimed victory thanks to Brooklyn’s 10-run assault.) Through the end of August pitched three no-decisions in which he surrendered a total of two earned runs and dropped his ERA from 4.20 to 3.34 Maglie gutted out a narrow victory at Crosley Field to raise the Dodgers into the lead for the first time since April As Brooklyn, Milwaukee and Cincinnati played tug-of-war for the pennant, Maglie no-hit the Philadelphia Phillies on September 25 Although Milwaukee.css-14rpnn4{margin:0;font-size:1.6rem;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;font-family:Proxima Nova,Proxima Nova Fallback Helvetica,Proxima Nova Fallback Arial;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;letter-spacing:0rem;line-height:2.6rem;white-space:normal;word-break:break-word;}’s easy victory in Cincinnati that day kept Brooklyn from gaining ground Maglie’s headline-making feat so close to the end of the season surely carried a lot of weight come awards time Four days later, his complete-game victory in the opener of a double-header against the Pittsburgh Pirates put Brooklyn one game in the lead for good (After winning the back end of the double-header Brooklyn clinched the pennant with a series sweep of Pittsburgh the next afternoon despite Milwaukee also winning its final game.) with a 2.87 ERA for Brooklyn—a fantastic ERA while hurling two-thirds of his innings in a home park among the toughest in which to pitch There is no doubt that Brooklyn—which edged Milwaukee by a single game and Cincinnati by two—won the pennant largely on the arm of Sal Maglie Maglie was money—especially during the three-team race of September For his heroics, Maglie finished second to teammate Don Newcombe in both the MVP race and the brand-new Cy Young Award as Newcombe authored one of the monster seasons of the post-war era: 27-7 Not to minimize in any way Maglie’s huge contribution to a pennant winner, but of the 11 NL pitchers who received MVP votes, only reliever Clem Labine collected fewer wins Maglie also pitched the fewest innings of any vote-getting starter Especially considering that Don Newcombe and his 27 victories were the true anchor of Brooklyn’s staff—and rightfully rewarded as such—a Dodger who played every day deserved more recognition than Maglie for keeping the Bums churning through a daily dogfight with Gilliam cracking an even .300 and drawing 95 walks But Duke carried the biggest stick on an aging team suddenly replaced by Cincinnati as the most potent offense in the league Snider paced the Senior Circuit in home runs tying with Junior Gilliam for the lead in on-base percentage all while chasing down fly balls to center field at his usual reliable rate And as Newcombe struggled to clinch the pennant on the schedule’s final day—surrendering six earned runs on 11 Pirates’ hits—it was the Duke who saved Brooklyn’s season slamming a pair of home runs and driving in four RBI Of course, no one knew from WAR at the time, but the Duke tied Willie Mays for the NL lead at 7.6 Having topped 130 RBI in the previous two seasons yet driving home “only” 101 in 1956 perhaps voters turned their pens elsewhere based on Duke’s “drop-off” in that coveted stat Already a potent lineup, the long-lost Redlegs—who hadn’t seen .500 since 1944—slugged their way from 75 to 91 wins largely on the addition of Frank Robinson Enjoying one of the greatest freshman campaigns ever—and copping a unanimous Rookie of the Year honor for it—the gritty Robinson smashed 38 home runs Robinson also helped Cincinnati clout a record-tying 221 home runs Exhibiting impressive bat discipline for a 20-year-old slugger Robinson drew 64 walks to go with his solid .290 batting average combined with a league-high 20 hit-by-pitches for the rookie who defiantly dug in against veteran hurlers had more to do with Cincinnati’s sudden resurgence than any other Redleg One can argue that a seventh-place finish on the MVP ballot was amply complemented by the Rookie of the Year honor a natural-born leader and the highest-scoring player on the highest-scoring team while driving in 18 runs and scoring 23 times in 22 contests Nearly matching Duke’s mastery of Cincinnati pitching, the rookie Robinson still bruised Brooklyn for nine homers and .716 slugging resulting in 13 RBI and 20 runs scored in the same 22 games Neither fared well against Milwaukee’s deep and stingy rotation He led the league in nothing but hurled 90 more innings than Maglie Over the course of an entire season, during which Spahn’s Braves spent 83 percent of its schedule within two games 90 high-quality innings is a huge difference to overlook Spahn’s 20 wins might have lost some impact among his big-winning teammates had Milwaukee finished a game ahead of Brooklyn Spahn likely would have received many of the votes that instead went to Maglie who went 7-1 and saved one game in September (including a 12-inning complete-game victory on September 13) he took a truly hard-luck loss in Milwaukee’s penultimate game of the season which dropped the Braves a game behind Brooklyn and allowed the Dodgers to claim the pennant the following afternoon despite Burdette’s 4-2 win in St Tied with Brooklyn with two games to play, Spahn spun a masterful 11 innings, yielding only three hits and one earned run. But Cardinal Herm Wehmeier an oft-wild thrower with a career mark of 80-100 going into the game scoring Musial and giving Brooklyn—busy winning the second game of a double-header against Pittsburgh after Maglie won the opener—a one-game edge going into the season’s final day The ace of the eventual world-champion New York Yankees But the Bronx Bombers peeled away from the rest of the AL in July and coasted to the pennant so Ford enjoyed none of the hero-making drama of a close race garnished with an AL-high five shutouts and 263 strikeouts—best in the Majors and 71 more than anyone else—Score unfairly went missing at ballot time thanks to an 88-win Cleveland Indians squad made irrelevant by the machine-like Yankees As good as was Maglie down Brooklyn’s stretch drive pitched at the highest caliber virtually all season (Along with the Shot Heard ‘Round the World game this made Maglie a starting pitcher in perhaps the two most famous contests in baseball annals.) went on to reclaim the crown Brooklyn had usurped the previous year with a career ERA 27 percent better than league average Sal Maglie enjoyed one helluva ride for a guy who didn’t stick in the Majors until age 33 Installation of artificial turf and addition of a batting cage and new bullpens are some of the improvements being made to Sal Maglie Stadium on Hyde Park Blvd Sal Maglie was a Niagara Falls native who pitched for Major League Baseball teams including the Yankees and the New York Giants when they won the 1954 World Series Maglie was employed by a wholesale liquor distributor as a salesman he worked for the Niagara Falls Convention Bureau as their membership coordinator Maglie’s favorite restaurant in Niagara Falls was the Como Restaurant and he would sign autographs at card shows and pitch in old-timers’ games Publisher and Editor in Chief: Frank Parlato © 2025 All rights reserved. The Niagara Reporter “Sal Maglie sat in the Dodger clubhouse and performed the ritual of anointing his pitching hand. First he applied a base of liquid rosin. Then he sprinkled the fingers with powdered rosin. And when he was done he was ready to pitch.”1 During his 1950 to 1954 heyday pitching for the Giants, Maglie had a 22-6 record against the Dodgers and won 11 of 12 decisions on that very mound. Why? “I always liked this mound in Ebbets Field,” Maglie said. “It is one of the best to pitch from. It doesn’t slope forward as sharply as some.”4 Maglie was a regular in the Dodgers’ pitching rotation Now it’s the last week of the baseball season, a chilly Tuesday evening to be more precise, and the race for the National League pennant is still very much in doubt.  That afternoon, the Braves had beaten the Cincinnati Redlegs behind Warren Spahn’s 20th win of the season putting them one full game ahead of the second-place Dodgers A Dodgers win was needed just to stay even in the loss column It’s Maglie’s turn on the mound at Ebbets Field and again he is facing Jack Meyer (7-10, 4.23 ERA) who had been used by Phillies manager Mayo Smith mainly as a reliever Tonight would be different than when they last met Maglie was nearly perfect the first time through the Phillies’ batting order Walking the opposing pitcher is regarded as the cardinal sin of baseball but for Maglie on this night it was a forgivable lapse on his path to a career highlight and a sure force out became two unearned runs as both Gilliam and Snider scored The Dodgers scored those five runs on only three hits thanks to some sloppy play in the field by the Phillies. A single to center field by Hodges in the sixth inning off rookie reliever Jack Sanford was the Dodgers’ only other base hit for the remainder of the game Now Dodgers fans could concentrate on Maglie’s pitching and staying warm. Maglie made good use of an electric blanket to stay warm and keep his right shoulder loose in the dugout while the Dodgers were at bat. If he was worried about his grip on the baseball in the cold weather, Maglie had his infielders, Reese, Robinson, and Hodges, rubbing up the baseballs throughout the game.7 As the game moved to the eighth inning, Maglie had retired the side in order in the last four innings. The drama was building. Maglie opened the inning by walking Willie Jones. Maglie shook off Campanella’s call for a curveball and got Elmer Valo to pop up to Reese on an outside-corner fastball Now the Dodgers’ defense rose to the occasion. Solly Hemus hit a hot grounder right over first base which Hodges fielded and fired to Reese at second. The return throw to Hodges sealed the inning-ending double play. Hemus was convinced that the ball was foul; the ensuing argument got him tossed out of the game by umpire Augie Donatelli.8 1 Michael Shapiro 2 SABR’s Maglie biographer Judith Testa was emphatic: “In what may be the greatest bargain in baseball history, the Dodgers’ astute general manager Buzzie Bavasi out-bargained the Indians’ Hank Greenberg and obtained Maglie for a mere $100.” Judith Testa, “Sal Maglie,” in Bill Nowlin and C The Team That Time Won’t Forget: The 1951 New York Giants (Phoenix: SABR 3 “Maglie, Ex-Nemesis of Dodgers, Bought by Brooks from Indians,” New York Times, May 16, 1956: 41. See discussion of Maglie’s nickname: Steven C. Weiner, “June 26, 1952: Giants’ Sal Maglie stops Dodgers with three-hit shutout,” SABR Baseball Games Project 4 Roscoe McGowen “Maglie Reveals His Brooklyn Secret; Mound at Ebbets Field His Favorite,” The Sporting News 5 “Maglie 6 Roscoe McGowen, “Maglie Sets Pace in 4-to-2 Victory,” New York Times, September 12, 1956: 44. Just as Sal Maglie was a nemesis of the Dodgers in his days with the Giants, so too was the Braves’ Bob Buhl The Dodgers finally beat Buhl for the first time in this game after seven consecutive losses Buhl beat the Dodgers 30 times in his major-league career (1953-1967) 7 Shapiro 8 Roscoe McGowen “Brooklyn Downs Phillies 5 to 0,” New York Times 9 Harvey Haddix is best known as a pitcher and for one game in particular—May 26, 1959: Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th Haddix had four hits in 15 pinch-hitting appearances for the 1956 Phillies 10 Dick Young “Dodgers Beat Phils on Sal’s No-Hitter,” New York Daily News In 1961 Braves pitcher Warren Spahn  no-hit the Giants at age 40 11 Roscoe McGowen “‘I’ve Pitched Better,’ Says No-Hitter Sal,” The Sporting News 12 Newcombe added  a 5-1 3.17 ERA record to the Dodgers’ starting pitching in September Bessent contributed three wins and five saves and Labine saved three games in addition to his complete game last-weekend win against the Pirates 3.06 ERA) won the NL Most Valuable Player Award as well as the initial Cy Young Award in 1956 13 This Day in Baseball, “Sal Maglie No-Hits the Phillies on September 25, 1956: Vin Scully Gives the Recap,” youtube.com/watch?v=EbjDMFyVtew Jerry Doggett is the other play-by-play announcer 14 Sal Maglie (13-5 2.89 ERA) had a 9-2 record at Ebbets Field in 1956 and a 4-3 record on the road 15 “The Baffling Barber,” New York Times 16 Dave Anderson “Don Drysdale’s ‘Inside’ Pitch,” New York Times 1950s · No-Hitters Sign InJoinHellas Verona Foundation | All'asta le maglie di #MilanVerona | OneFootballHellas Verona FC Verona - Andranno all'asta le maglie indossate dai gialloblù in occasione di Milan-Hellas Verona che si giocherà allo stadio 'Meazza' sabato 15 febbraio Le maglie indossate e firmate dai giocatori dell'Hellas Verona saranno all'asta dal fischio d'inizio della partita previsto per le 20.45 su MatchWornShirt il ricavato dell'asta sarà destinato ad Hellas Verona Foundation che devolverà le donazioni alle numerose iniziative che la fondazione sostiene CLICCA QUI PER L'ASTA DI HELLAS VERONA FC “He scares you to death. He’s scowling and gnashing his teeth, and if you try to dig in on him, there goes your Adam’s apple. He’s gonna win if it kills you and him both.” So the Cincinnati Reds’ Danny Litwhiler described the unnerving experience of batting against Sal Maglie Between 1950 and 1956 Maglie was among the most feared hurlers in baseball 180-pound righthander whose game-day face bristled with thick black stubble he looked capable of killing the opposing batters and his pitching style confirmed the fears his appearance aroused His high hard one came in so close to batters’ heads that it seemed to shave their chins gaining him the memorable nickname “Sal the Barber.” Although best remembered for his on-field ferocity Maglie didn’t come by his reputation naturally and it took him a long time to learn his trade Salvatore Anthony Maglie was born on April 26 his parents’ third and youngest child and only son came from a prosperous family in Italy and had a high school education but in America his lack of knowledge of English meant he could only hold jobs as a common laborer But she was a woman of determined character and unusual height — qualities her son inherited Sal’s passion for baseball mystified and angered his parents and as a child he had to sneak out of the house in order to play In his early years he was such a poor pitcher that his sandlot teams rarely let him take the mound Since his high school did not have a baseball team Nearby Niagara University offered him a basketball scholarship maintaining a stubborn allegiance to baseball a former big-league catcher and the future manager of several major league teams Sal spent almost three seasons with the Double-A Bisons so O’Neill placed Maglie with the Jamestown Falcons of the Class D Pony League In 1941 he moved up to the Elmira Pioneers of the Class A Eastern League winning 20 games and achieving an excellent 2.67 ERA The year 1941 was a busy one for Sal in his personal life as well as he and his longtime girlfriend Kay Pileggi eloped in March Their families hurried them into a proper Catholic church wedding two months later shortly after the beginning of World War II Maglie failed his pre-induction physical due to a chronic sinus condition Sal’s mediocre record was sufficient for the New York Giants to snap him up for their Jersey City farm team He resigned after the 1942 season and returned to Niagara Falls where he spent the next two years working in a defense plant In the spring of 1945 Sal returned to the Jersey City Giants Although in his two months with the New York Giants in 1945 the 28-year-old rookie compiled a modest 5-4 record and believed he might join the Giants’ regular rotation in 1946 At the end of the 1945 season Giants pitching coach Dolf Luque suggested Maglie join the Cuban Winter League and pitch for Cienfuegos The Cuban-born Luque had enjoyed a successful major league career as a righthander with a reputation as a headhunter demanding apprenticeship with Luque that would transform him from a marginal wartime hurler into one of the top pitchers of his time During Sal’s two seasons with the Puebla Parrots and the flinty old Cuban molded the mild-mannered Maglie into a pitcher along his own lines As he absorbed Luque’s methods and pitched under varied and often extreme conditions a very different Sal Maglie emerged — a grim a pitcher who could bend a curve like a pretzel or send a batter sprawling with a fastball that grazed his chin After 1947 Maglie did not return to the crumbling Mexican League, but he was still banned from the majors. He then joined a barnstorming squad organized by fellow jumper Max Lanier consisting of other Mexican League refugees The team failed to bring in enough money to cover expenses he used money saved from his years in Mexico to purchase a home and a gas station and tried to resign himself to life as a gas jockey Invited to pitch in the Provincial League in Quebec Maglie put in an outstanding season in Canada in 1949 leading the Drummondville Cubs to a championship Maglie learned that Chandler had lifted the ban on the Mexican League jumpers and he would be allowed to return to the New York Giants and the Giants fell to the Yankees in six games is among the most famous moments in baseball history Although he had compiled a 9-5 record by the end of July 1955 the Giants sold Maglie to the Cleveland Indians but a development in his personal life decided him against that After almost 15 years of childless marriage and the boy gave Maglie a new determination to continue his baseball career and Larsen pitched the only perfect game in World Series history Almost forgotten in the post-game frenzy was the fine game Maglie pitched that day — in eight innings he allowed the Yankees only two runs on five hits That famous game proved the final highlight of Maglie’s major league career as the aging Dodger squad played out its final Brooklyn season before the move to Los Angeles the last player to wear the uniform of all three New York teams At age 41 he pitched well for both Brooklyn and New York in 1958 the Yankees passed him on to the St where Maglie stumbled to a 3-7 record in his final major league season the Cards handed Sal his unconditional release In an effort to give Maglie ten years in the majors and make him eligible for a pension the Cards came up with a combination minor league coaching and scouting position for him for 1959 and did not renew his contact for the next year Instead, Maglie opened a new chapter in his baseball life on October 20, 1960, when he accepted the post of pitching coach for the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox teams of the early 1960s were poor-playing squads, and Maglie’s efforts to mold a winning pitching staff mostly went to waste. But not entirely. In 1961 righthander Bill Monbouquette set a team record with 17 strikeouts in a single game and he gave much of the credit for his achievement to Maglie “I wasn’t afraid to throw the ball inside and back you off the plate it might be worse than backing you off,” Monbo said sounding The Barber’s intimidating note “Sal talked about stuff like ‘move this guy off the plate he did preach: ‘throw that ball inside!’ And he didn’t mean pitch to get a strike on the inside corner He meant you’ve got to set that hitter up with a pitch way inside!” In 1962, in an achievement almost unheard of for a second division squad, two Boston pitchers tossed no-hitters: Bill Monbouquette and Earl Wilson, and both credited Maglie for the marked improvement in their pitching performances. In addition, Dick Radatz emerged as the team’s ace reliever As Sal watched the jumbo-size hurler work during spring training he noticed that Radatz was not taking full advantage of his impressive bulk to get the maximum speed on his fastball “He taught me how to use the lower part of my body,” Radatz related but you’re not using your legs to drive off the mound to get more velocity on your fastball.’ That probably put four or five miles an hour more on my fastball What he taught me helped me for the rest of my career I don’t think I’d have been the pitcher I was.” Lonborg credits much of his success to Maglie’s coaching “I needed to do something that would not allow hitters to stand in and wait for certain pitches,” Lonborg recalled “That’s where he taught me the importance of the brushback pitch He said you had to be able to throw very hard inside the farther away the outside part of the plate looked to the batter.” “Williams was a real organized type,” Doerr recalled “He wanted to know exactly when guys were going to pitch; he wanted a chart of all that Sal benefitted from league expansion in the late ’60s In 1968 he was hired as a scout and pitching coach for the Seattle Pilots Maglie spent 1968 coaching for the affiliated Newark (N.Y.) Co-Pilots and when the Seattle franchise began play in 1969 Maglie joined the team as its pitching coach The Pilots lasted only that one season before declaring bankruptcy and being relocated to Milwaukee Sal subsequently struggled to figure out what to do with the rest of a life that had been devoted almost entirely to baseball His last baseball-related position was in 1970 when he served as general manager of the minor league Niagara Falls Pirates He was a salesman for a wholesale liquor distributor and later membership coordinator for the Niagara Falls Convention Bureau a satisfying union shadowed only by the severe emotional problems his older son had developed in the wake of Kay Maglie’s death suffered a long downward spiral into depression becoming a source of deep anguish for his adoptive father as well as attending card shows and old timers games when he suffered a brain aneurysm and nearly died But then in March 1985 Sal’s troubled older son died Sal’s physical and mental health declined rapidly and he was placed in a nursing home in 1987 The big New York newspapers that had reported on his games decades earlier all ran lengthy obituaries He noted that Sal would never be elected to the Hall of Fame unless “there’s a Hall of Fame just for pitchers whom you wanted to have the ball in a game you had to win.” summarized from my full-length bio (Sal Maglie as well as on recorded accounts of games and film clips of Maglie in action I consulted archives in Italy to find information on Maglie’s Italian immigrant parents along with biographies and autobiographies of players as well as articles from general sports magazines I consulted microfilms of the major New York and Brooklyn daily newspapers I interviewed members of the Maglie family as well as sportswriters and team officials from the years when Maglie was either a player or a coach I listened to recordings of the famous games in which Maglie took part: the 1951 third playoff game and Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series I also watched film clips of Maglie pitching in particular a relatively long fragment of a game in 1957 Salvatore Anthony Maglie http://dev.sabr.org/?p=61695 If you can help us improve this player’s biography, contact us 1950s All-Stars · 1951 New York Giants · 1967 Boston Red Sox Along the way to a 5-4 record in 84⅓ innings in 1945, Maglie picked up the August 23 Sporting News “Player of the Week” award, aided by guidance from Giants pitching coach Dolf Luque.2 Maglie then followed Luque, a fixture in Cuban baseball, to the island for more tutoring that winter. Pitching in Cuba, Maglie encountered Mexican baseball magnate Bernardo Pasquel.3 Pasquel tried to entice Maglie to pitch in Mexico in 1946 for $7,500 although the right-hander had already signed a Giants contract for the same amount. “The bonus wasn’t large enough to make me throw over the big leagues and play ball under conditions I knew nothing about,” Maglie remembered.4 More than four years after he had thrown his last major-league pitch He was now 33 years old but had learned a lot about the vicissitudes of life — and pitching — in the interim The Braves went down in order in their second as Jansen recorded two more strikeouts. But he quickly lost his slim lead in the third. Del Crandall greeted him with a popfly single, the Braves’ first hit. Former Giant Buddy Kerr tripled him home to tie the game; Spahn helped his own cause with a groundout to the right side that scored Kerr New York got a leadoff home run from Hank Thompson in the fourth inning to forge a 2-2 tie. Jansen, though, imploded in the fifth. He allowed a single, a walk, and a run-scoring single, then a fly out that plated another run. His day was finished by Bob Elliott‘s two-run homer Maglie’s formal return to Organized Baseball began when Durocher summoned him in relief. Jansen had managed one out. Four runs were already in, but the bases were clear. Maglie had predictable jitters and walked Sid Gordon on four pitches, then yielded consecutive singles to Earl Torgeson and Crandall get Kerr to hit into an around-the-horn double play to end the carnage pinch-hitting for Maglie with a runner on third base Maglie’s post-ban debut was in the books — an ugly line of three earned runs yielded over 1⅔ innings on four hits and two walks. His earned-run average was 16.20. “Maglie discovered quickly that he was not pitching in the Mexican League anymore.”23 Boston added two more runs off Kirby Higbe in the eighth to coast to an 11-4 win for Spahn Although “slouching in the bullpen”24 after his inauspicious return He had nicely whittled his ERA to 3.27 by June 25 when Durocher entrusted him with a start against Cincinnati He went six innings in a 6-4 loss and was back in the bullpen until July 21 Durocher started him against the Cardinals in St and Maglie responded with a gutty seven-hitter as the Giants won and five shutouts led all National League pitchers Maglie’s return season had started with the shakiest of outings. But by September 17, a crowd of 21,892 celebrated Sal Maglie Day at the Polo Grounds before a game against the Cardinals.27 He was indeed back As the Notes throughout this account indicate, Judith Testa‘s meticulously researched 2007 biography of Sal Maglie was especially helpful Her work aided me greatly in distilling Maglie’s decision to forgo Organized Baseball for Mexico in 1947 Maglie’s restorative 1949 season in Canada and the details of his re-signing and spring training with the 1950 Giants In addition to the sources cited in the Notes the author consulted Baseball-Reference.com My SABR colleague Carl Riechers helped confirm details of the 1933 National League consecutive scoreless innings streak Sal Maglie threatened 17 years later 1 Judith Testa Sal Maglie: Baseball’s Demon Barber (De Kalb Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press 2 Testa See: “Player of the Week — Sal Maglie,” The Sporting News 3 Testa 4 Testa 5 Testa 7 “13 Jumping Beans Placed On O.B Five players from the minor leagues were also banned for playing in Mexico in 1946 8 Testa 9 Judith Testa, “Sal Maglie,” SABR Baseball Biography Project The nickname may well have been introduced to the public by sportswriter Jim McCulley in July 1950 as his intimates call him,” he wrote in a story about the start in St “Jinxed Maglie Tackles Cardinals as Starter,” New York Daily News By August McCulley was routinely referring to Maglie as “the Barber” in game stories “Sport Talk,” Knoxville (Tennessee) News-Sentinel 10 Just as he had in the 1945-46 Organized Baseball offseason Maglie pitched in Cuba in the winters of 1946-47 and 1947-48 before pitching in Mexico in the summer The Mexican League folded in September 1948 Sal knew he would not return to Mexico.” Testa 11 Testa 12 Dan Daniel “Last of Legal Threats to Game Cleared Away,” The Sporting News 13 Testa 14 Testa 15 Testa 16 Arnott Duncan “Tight Defense May Help Loss of Homer Clan,” Arizona Republic (Phoenix) 17 Jim McCulley 18 Jim McCulley 19 Between them and Bickford (39) started 115 of Boston’s 154 games in 1950 20 Hy Turkin “Giants Not Same (to Durocher),” New York Daily News 22 Second baseman Stanky and his double-play partner Alvin Dark were brand-new Giants New York acquired them from Boston for four players on December 14 They helped make the 1950 Giants what Durocher called “my kind of team.” Turkin 23 Testa quoting sportswriter Jim McCulley of the New York Daily News 24 Testa 25 Testa quoting Russ Hodges and Al Hirshberg in My Giants (Garden City Musial could afford to be magnanimous; he was hitting .348 going into the game and had three of the Cardinals’ seven hits “Maglie’s Scoreless String Ended,” New York Times (Hubbell’s streak included partial innings in the first and last games as well as an 8⅓-inning relief appearance on July 19 Some reference sources state Hubbell’s consecutive scoreless innings streak to be 45⅓ innings The partial-inning outs from the first and last games total another full inning and make Hubbell’s accurate consecutive innings streak 46⅓ innings.) 27 Jim McCulley Judith Testa records in Maglie’s biography that “more than 1,000 residents of Niagara Falls [Maglie’s home town] came to the Polo Grounds,” and “the pitcher received a new car a $2,500 war bond and a variety of other gifts from his friends and neighbors and a wristwatch from fans in the Polo Grounds bleachers.” Testa 1950s · First Games Back · Opening Day Facing Maglie and the Giants this day was Dodgers veteran Preacher Roe. Roe was nearing the end of his career, but was 3-2 for the season so far after winning his last start, on June 27 against the St. Louis Cardinals.5 The Giants entered the game with a 3½-game lead on Brooklyn aided by a three-game sweep that started with the extra-inning game on June 29 the largest of the season and most since a July 4 to see if the Dodgers could cut into that lead and the Dodgers had to settle for two runs and inducing a game-ending groundout from Gilliam The win increased the Giants lead to 4½ games and improved Maglie’s record against the Dodgers to 21-7 His undefeated streak at Ebbets ended when he took the loss in a 9-1 Dodger victory on July 26 Maglie would be claimed off waivers by the Cleveland Indians in July 1955 then sold to the Dodgers in 1956 He would beat the Giants twice in his Dodger tenure In addition to the sources listed in the notes The Sporting News archive via Paper of Record and the Chicago Tribune and Brooklyn Daily Eagle via newspapers.com Baseball-Reference: baseball-reference.com/boxes/BRO/BRO195407060.shtml Retrosheet: retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1954/B07060BRO1954.htm 1 Judith Testa 2 Joseph Durso, “Sal Maglie, Star Pitcher of the 1950’s, Dies at 75,” New York Times, December 29, 1992. nyti.ms/29mkK0l 3 Testa 4 Tommy Holmes “Maglie Means Nothing but Misery to Flock,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle 5 The June 27 victory against the Cardinals was the 127th and last of his career 6 Dave Anderson “Moran Earns Starting Post Tonight,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle 7 Dave Anderson “Batting Slump Baffles Robinson,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle 8 Ibid 9 Dave Anderson “Leo Psychic About Giving Maglie the Thumb at the Right Time,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle 10 Dave Anderson 11 Ibid 12 The save became an official statistic in 1969. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_(baseball) 1950s · you mention baseball and it won’t be long before you find yourself discussing the greatest player the city ever produced He is one of the most revered figures in the city’s history Although he got a late start in the Major Leagues – he rookied in at age 28 in 1945 with the New York Giants -- the rangy right hander was one of dominant pitchers of his era 862 strikeouts and an earned run average of 3.15 over the span He was the only pitcher to play for all three of the New York teams and he also pitched for the Cleveland Indians and the St when he no hit the Philadelphia Phillies for the Dodgers and in Game 5 of that year’s World Series he was bested only by Don Larsen of the Yankees who used the occasion to toss his perfect game and best Maglie and the Dodgers 2-0.  Dubbed “The Barber” by sportswriters for his purported predilection to throw balls high and tight thus giving the batters a “close shave,” Maglie actually had no more hit batsman than normal based upon innings pitched especially to the thousands of young boys playing Little League here he would fill a train full of youthful players for a trip to New York City where they were treated to a Dodgers game and a room for the night He remembered well his own time playing youth baseball at Hyde Park the city renamed what had been called Hyde Park Stadium in his honor hoping to attract a minor league baseball team to the venue Rapids and Mallards all played their home games at the facility providing professional quality baseball in the city from 1970 to 1995 and launching a number of notable Major League careers and former mayor James Galie had Sal Maglie completely rebuilt in 1998 in the hope of once again attracting professional baseball to the city the Niagara Power – a team in the New York State Collegiate League – contracted to use the stadium now under the leadership of Mayor Paul Dyster Power General Manager Cal Kern announced that negotiations with the city had broken down the field was for all intents and purposes unplayable and that the franchise that had brought more than 60,000 fans into the city would dissolve rather than put up with it any more This was very troubling for one man in particular son of the baseball legend who passed away in 1992 told the Niagara Falls Reporter over the weekend he is troubled by the events surrounding the baseball stadium that bears his father’s name “It’s sad to see,” he said And of course I care a lot about what’s going on because that’s my dad’s name on it.” Maglie said he believes that between the Power the city’s Babe Ruth League program and the Niagara Thunderwolves travelling collegiate baseball program sponsored by Niagara County Community College having activity at the stadium every night during the baseball season is a no brainer “I’m frustrated and it upsets me to see the stadium not being kept up,” Maglie told the Reporter “If there was any interest whatsoever in the on the part of politicians Maglie confirmed Power General Manager Cal Kern’s assessment of the problem Kern told the Reporter in August that the the city claims it is too broke to properly maintain the field but that when the Power organization offered to maintain it themselves they were told that such a course of action would be in violation of union work rules “You had a situation out there this summer where a pitcher was actually afraid to pitch off the mound because of the likelihood of injury,” Maglie said The Niagara Thunderwolves program involves a hometown team that plays its schedule for the most part at NCCC and Cambria Town Park Pennsylvania and the rest of Upstate New York “And the Niagara Tournament is being played someplace in Newfane Maglie said the Thunderwolves schedule could be made to dovetail nicely into that of the Niagara Power and that Babe Ruth Little League games could be played at the stadium on off days giving youngsters the opportunity to play on the same field that nurtured the careers of any number of Major Leaguers “The Power was bringing money into the city and the Thunderwolves would bring in more,” he said “Then you’ve got the kids’ program something for them to do and get them off the streets while a building a cricket field can go from being a ridiculous idea to being a finished piece of real estate in head spinning time here these days in Niagara Falls the thought of scheduling activity at an already existing sports facility and maintaining the facility to allow for the sport to be played without undue safety concerns is Neither are officials of the Babe Ruth Little League the Niagara Power or the Niagara Thunderwolves all of whom have endured soul sucking City Hall meetings that have resulted in nothing “The Barber,” might have ordered up a little chin music in a situation like this I was around that stadium all my life,” he said “It just seems like a shame that you would have an asset like that and then not even bother to take care of it.” Whitey Lockman led off the game with a double to left field. He went to third base on Dark’s groundout but did not score. In the Dodgers’ half of the inning, Maglie walked Junior Gilliam who stole second and went to third on a groundout by Reese Gilliam was stranded at third when Hodges struck out Mueller tagged up at third but was thrown out at home on Amoros’s strong throw to the plate The Giants threatened in the top of the third Erskine got out of the jam on a strikeout and a groundout the Dodgers tied the score at 1-1 when Gilliam walked again and Snider doubled him home Erskine retired the Giants on three fly balls Furillo made the third out flying out to center field The Dodgers did not score in the bottom of the fifth and neither did the Giants in the top of the sixth The Dodgers loaded the bases in the sixth on two singles and a walk but Furillo ended the rally by flying out to center Both teams went out in order in the seventh The Giants got a man on base in the top of the eighth when Dark singled Hodges doubled to left with one out in the eighth and scored on a triple by Amoros Sal then walked Robinson and Furillo singled to left In the top of the ninth, the Giants’ Mueller singled with one out. Dusty Rhodes batted for Williams, who had stayed in the game after the fourth-inning incident. Rhodes hit a sharp drive to the right side. Gilliam bobbled it but was able to get Mueller at second. Bobby Hofman batted for Katt and grounded to shortstop Reese threw it to second for a game-ending force play After the fifth-inning skirmish there was no more roughhousing, although there were hot words and an undercurrent of tension.12 Erskine pitched a complete game It was a gutsy performance; he had runners on base in every inning except the fourth and seventh walking six batters and giving up seven hits Maglie had been hit hard in his first two games of the season so this start was a good sign for the Giants faithful Amoros was the hitting and fielding star for the Dodgers with two hits including the decisive triple in the eighth inning Dark led the Giants with his fifth-inning double and a single the Dodgers won the National League pennant without any serious challenges Campanella received the National League Most Valuable Player Award with Snider The Giants finished in third place with a record of 80 wins and 74 losses The Dodgers met the New York Yankees in the World Series and behind the pitching of Johnny Podres and fielding of Amoros won the decisive Game Seven The author discussed these incidents in a phone conversation with Alvin Dark and his wife and Kevin Larkin for their roles in editing the essay In addition to the sources mentioned in the Notes the author consulted the Baseball-Reference.com and Retrosheet game logs: baseball-reference.com/boxes/BRO/BRO195504230.shtml retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1955/B04230BRO1955.htm 1 Joseph M “Giants Break Dodgers’ Ten-Game Winning Streak,” New York Times 2 Roger Kahn The Boys of Summer (New York: Harper & Row 3 Roger Kahn Giants and Dodgers Ruled the World (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 4 Sheehan 5 Judith Testa Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press 2007) 6 Testa 7 Sheehan His article was accompanied by an Associated Press photo that showed Gorman restraining Dark 8 Testa 9 Alvin Dark and John Underwood 10 Dark and Underwood 11 Dark and Underwood 12 Sheehan The City of Niagara Falls Division of Purchasing issued a Request for Proposals for a “License to Operate and Manage Sal Maglie Stadium.” The successful proposer will have exclusive rights to sell food alcohol and other beverages at the 2500 seat capacity stadium located in Hyde Park in the center of the city The stadium is being offered in “as-is” condition – sort of – and permits an operator to stage events that could generate ticket revenue in addition to food and beverage sales Sal Maglie Stadium is presently maintained by the Department of Public Works It has not been in regular use since 20http://southbuffalonews.com4 The Niagara Power baseball team stop using the stadium amid complaints that it could not get core maintenance issues addressed by the city while at the same time the city refused to let the team make its own repairs or needed maintenance The city cited union issues prevented the team from doing common maintenance items like changing the light bulbs Explaining why the management of the stadium is being put out to bid Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster told the Niagara Gazette “We don’t regard the direct operation of Sal Maglie as a cash cow It doesn’t have the same income possibilities as something like the (Hyde Park) ice pavilion.” The city invested $http://southbuffalonews.com3 million into the Ice Pavilion – bonding some of the cost – since Dyster has been mayor and collects an annual rent of $240,000 per year from the operator who won a bid in 20http://southbuffalonews.com4 it will take 55 years to recoup the $http://southbuffalonews.com3 million investment of the so-called “cash cow” not counting interest on the bond Besides the bleachers and a regulation sized baseball field which is in disrepair amenities at Sal Maglie include parking lots Sealed proposals will be received by the City Purchasing Division at City Hall http://southbuffalonews.com4302 no later than February http://southbuffalonews.com 20http://southbuffalonews.com6 at http://southbuffalonews.comhttp://southbuffalonews.com:00 A.M The length of the license term shall be for a minimum of three (3) years commencing on April http://southbuffalonews.com 20http://southbuffalonews.com6 (or sooner) The deal may not – much like the Ice Pavilion make money for the city given the deferred maintenance and the terms of the RFP While the proposal is to include rent paid to the City and offers an option to pay in one lump sum or monthly the city will be responsible for repairs of the stadium facility structure and its fixtures such as the elevator plumbing and lighting system and parking lot winterizing the stadium facility,) are the responsibility of the operator and if the operator wants to fix the scoreboard or improve the condition of the playing field he or she may do so at their own expense The city estimates it will cost an operator $http://southbuffalonews.com49,http://southbuffalonews.com83.32 to maintain the stadium annually and will make periodic inspections to insure the facility is being maintained and operated in a satisfactory condition Highest bidder may not necessarily be chosen Among the items to be considered in making its selection determination experience and qualifications of the licensee/staff The amateur New York Collegiate Baseball League Niagara Power played 23 games at Sal Maglie each summer and the stadium also hosted high school sporting events until recently Niagara Gazette sportswriter Doug Smith estimated that about http://southbuffalonews.com,http://southbuffalonews.com93 professional baseball games were played since the stadium opened as Hyde Park Stadium in http://southbuffalonews.com939 and that about http://southbuffalonews.com.2 million people attended games played by the various minor league Rainbows Thanks for visiting ! The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy. We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here. Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker For years people have wondered why Niagara Falls, a city of 50,000 that plays host to millions of tourists every summer, couldn't have a minor league baseball team. Former mayor Jimmy Galie wondered it, appointing a baseball commission, tasked with exploring what was needed to attract a club to the Cataract City, back in 1998. Galie thought that bringing professional baseball back to Niagara Falls after a four year hiatus would be just the thing to guarantee his reelection bid. He ordered the old stadium, originally built in 1939, torn down to make way for a new Field of Dreams. He was shutout the following year in the Democratic primary by the rangy right hander John Accardo, however, who then went down to defeat in the general election, losing to Irene Elia, a former nun who had little interest in baseball. The resulting rebuild of the storied old stadium gave the city a "sports complex" that didn't even meet the needs of the professional rookie leagues, and with the exception of the amateur New York Collegiate Baseball League Niagara Power, who play 23 games at Sal Maglie each summer, the stadium has mostly played host to local high school sporting events. When the stadium was built in 1939, it was to play host to the Niagara Falls Rainbows, the Cleveland Indians New York Penn League affiliate. The only major leaguer to come off the Rainbows roster that year was Walt Chipple, a career minor leaguer who managed one season with the Washington Senators and batted a not overly impressive.136. By 1947, Sal Maglie was home to the Niagara Falls Frontiers, a team representing the Philadelphia Phillies in the Mid Atlantic League. Catcher Big Jim Devlin was a standout who later went on to a brief career with the Cleveland Indians. From 1967 to 1969, the stadium was home to the Buffalo Bisons, a Triple A International League franchise affiliated first with the Cincinnati Reds and then with the Washington Senators. It was the beginning of a golden age for Niagara Falls baseball. Racial unrest in and around the team's home field in Buffalo led to the move. The 1967 roster featured a dozen future major leaguers, including Hall of Famer Johnny Bench, All Star second baseman Hal McRae, pitcher Jose Pena and Don Zimmer, the All Star infielder who would later go on to manage the San Diego Padres, Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs. From 1970 to 1979, under the leadership of team owner George Wenz, Sal Maglie Stadium played host to the Niagara Falls Pirates of the New York Penn League. Dale Berra, Miguel Dilone, Rick Honeycutt, and Luis Salazar were among the many to major leaguers and All Stars who played for Wenz's team. Wenz showed a genius for showmanship. One particular promotion involved a "road trip," in which Pirates fans could eat and drink to the heart's content at the Stadium Grill and then board a bus that would take them to Sal Maglie Stadium, located directly across Highland Avenue from the bar. It was a popular promotion until a car ran a red light and T-boned the bus one evening. The Pirates morphed into the Niagara Falls Rapids in 1982 and featured the young talent of All Star first baseman Tony Clark, a switch hitter who played with the Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees before retiring after a 15 year career that saw him hit 261 with 251 home runs. There's a lot of history around that old ball yard on Hyde Park Boulevard. And perhaps a lot of future too. Volume 9 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2022.1001934 Childhood obesity represents a serious public health problem and this study evaluates the effectiveness of a 6-month educational intervention on lifestyle and diet quality in the school setting in improving the knowledge and behavior of primary school children regarding correct eating habits The strategy was implemented over a 6-month period and participants were randomly assigned to either the intervention group (n = 200) or the non-intervention group (control group Participants had a mean body mass index of 18.3 ± 2.7 kg/m2 and its variation in the intervention group (−2.7 ± 0.5 kg/m2) was significantly different from that in the control group (3.41 ± 0.8 kg/m2) there were significant differences between the proportion of children who were overweight or obese before and after intervention (p < 0.05) The best results were seen in the female sex there were significant waist circumference decrement effects in the intervention group compared to the control group (p < 0.05) many of the participating children acquired healthy eating habits the quantitative results obtained suggest that a school intervention program represents an effective strategy to prevent and improve the problem of childhood overweight and obesity Childhood overweight and obesity represent a major global health problem (1), and these conditions, if already present in childhood and adolescence, can certainly lead to serious chronic diseases (2, 3); when they persist in adulthood, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and some cancers are their serious consequences (4–6) Obviously, as children spend a lot of their time in school, it is important to implement school programs aimed at defining and maintaining a healthy lifestyle (33–35), thus increasing the cognitive functioning and mental health and wellbeing (36) the aim of our study was to evaluate the effect of a 6-month intervention on lifestyle and diet quality in children attending schools in Southern Italy To understand the effects of promoting nutrition adequacy a sample of 398 children was selected from different schools These schools are located in two cities with similar socioeconomic status and have not previously participated in health promotion programs Schools were secondary-level public schools The sample was composed of 194 boys and 204 girls who were allocated to a control group and a group participating in an intervention (n = 200 and n = 198 All children were healthy and free of any disability or musculoskeletal Before the inclusion of the children in our program a parent or legal representative of each child signed informed consent The study was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration and the European Union recommendations for Good Clinical Practice (document 111/3976/88 The University's Research Ethics Committee approved the study A randomized controlled trial study design, which is double-blinded, was employed; the design is shown in Figure 1 all teachers and parents in the intervention schools received on-site training to provide them with general information on the nature and significance of the intervention and to support their role in educating the children The intervention conducted aimed at improving sugar-containing beverages consumption and promoting the consumption of vegetables and fruit The goal of this program is to decrease energy intake while improving food quality information on portion control was provided with no indication of kilocalories or grams of food consumption Food education and a healthy lifestyle (e.g. and sleep quality) were discussed with the active involvement of everyone The educational intervention covered 12 lessons for the subject's biology and alimentation implemented by classroom teachers The first part (six lessons) aimed at increasing awareness and information regarding energy balance-related behaviors The second part (six lessons) aimed at facilitation of choice to improve one of the behaviors the children and families understand how to organize their weekly meal planning without detailed prescriptions The control schools followed their regular curriculum All measures were recorded at baseline (T0) and 6 months from baseline (T1) at the completion of the intervention Body weight and height were ascertained, in duplicate, with standard techniques. Waist circumference was measured, in duplicate, at the iliac crest, and at mid-respiration using a non-elastic measuring tape. The ratio between waist circumference and height (WHR) was calculated. The cut-off used to represent CV risk for WHR was 0.500 (37) For children and adolescents, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention defines overweight as a body mass index (BMI: weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) between the 85th and 95th percentiles and obesity as a BMI at or above the 95th percentile for sex and age (38) The parents completed structured no validated questionnaires which included the eating habits of their children (food frequency questionnaire) and their familiarity with certain food items This questionnaire was administered twice to the parents of the children the first time at the beginning of the study and the second time at the end of the intervention; in both cases The data collected with the questionnaire were analyzed by extrapolating the frequency of each item considered in the proposed survey Descriptive data was represented by the percentage Means and standard deviations were described for the total sample and for both the participants and control groups All data have been tested for normality using the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test For the association of different items of the questionnaire The significance level was set to p < 0.05 The sample consisted of 397 children who were randomly divided into two groups, the intervention group, and the control group. Table 1 shows the characteristics of the 197 children in the intervention group and the 200 children who made up the control group The mean age was 9.5 ± 0.5 years for both sexes Physical characteristics of children (Mean ± SD) Coherent with the random assignment of children to the intervention and control groups, no significant differences were observed between these groups in terms of average weight, height, BMI, and proportion of overweight or obese children (p > 0.05; Table 1) Statistically significant differences between the sexes were noted, being the boys taller and heavier than the girls. Boys also have a larger waistline (p < 0.05; Table 1) Interestingly, while BMI increases in the untreated group, it significantly decreases in the intervention group (Figure 2) Box and whiskers representation of body mass index (BMI: weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) of intervention group (A) and control children (B) The sample was also divided between girls and boys the central box covers the middle 50% of the data values p-values were obtained by Student's paired t-test As regards the detection of percentiles in the different age groups, we have highlighted that overweight and obesity in children increased with age (Figure 2). In fact, before our educative intervention, 18.5% of the children were underweight. We also highlighted significant differences between the proportions of overweight, underweight, normal weight, or obese children before and after intervention in the experimental group (Figure 2; χ2 The most striking results were obtained in females, since girls with obesity were no longer detectable after intervention (Figure 3) normal weight or with obesity children pre (T0) and post (T1) intervention The sample was also divided between girls and boys and different age groups Another indicator of obesity was also measured; in the experimental group, the waist circumference substantially declined (p < 0.001) (Figure 4A). In contrast, in the group that is not participating in the intervention, waist circumference significantly increases, especially in boys (Figure 4B) Box and whiskers representation of waist circumference of intervention group (A) and control children (B) recorded at baseline (T0) and 6 months from baseline (T1 The sample was also divided according to gender Those values which are beyond 1.5 times the interquartile range beyond the central box are plotted as individual points WHR also includes height and is, in normal-weight children as well, an important indicator of excess upper body fat (37). Hence, WHR allows to identify children at risk of developing metabolic complications (39), with a cut-off value greater than 0.500 (37, 40) mean WHR decreased from 0.43 ± 0.06 to 0.41 ± 0.03 (p < 0.001) (males: 0.45 ± 0.013; to 0.42 ± 0.01; p < 0.01; females from 0.42 ± 0.03 to 0.41 ± 0.03; p < 0.05) in the participating group while it remained unchanged in the control group the number of children who had a ratio >0.50 in T0 also decreased significantly (χ2 Changes in dietary parameters after lifestyle intervention in children (p by chi-square test) Change in diet quality after lifestyle intervention in children In T0, while as mentioned earlier there was an equal distribution of the mid-morning snack, the afternoon snack was consumed by 80.8% of children (Table 2). In T1, the children of the experimental group who eat a snack in midmorning and, in the afternoon, increased further (Table 2; χ2 = 5.302 Among fruit, chips, and cold cuts, the first choice for a midmorning (48%) or afternoon snack (52%) was sweets (Table 2). In T1, children in the experimental group preferred to eat fruit for both snacks (Table 2; χ2 = 10.805 As the number of overweight and obese children has increased in recent decades the need to support healthy nutrition and physical activity in children has never been more urgent the present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of an education program regarding correct eating habits on children's weight status It is interesting to note that the percentages of children with overweight and obesity increased significantly from 8 to 10 years Since this study was conducted from 2017 to 2018 these higher rates of obesity are not caused by the COVID-19 pandemic-dependent lockdown but were due to pre-existing socio-economic conditions and other health indicators In childhood obesity, the inadequate intake of fruit and vegetables and the consumption of too many high-calorie snacks play a very important role, with 41% of total calories coming from chips, chocolate bars, soft drinks, fruit drinks, sugars, syrups, preserves, fats, and oils (50) As known, family, friends, school, marketing, and the media influence children's food choices. To prevent childhood obesity, it is useful to combine family and school programs and nutrition education with adequate physical activity (21) Habits that protect against childhood obesity include having breakfast and eating family meals and being physically active we examined the effects of a 6-month pilot intervention on students from schools located in two small towns with similar socio-economic conditions This intervention had the aim of educating on a healthy diet according to the dictates of the Mediterranean diet (especially breakfast and fruit-based afternoon snack; vegetables for lunch and dinner; drinking water instead of sugary drinks) and to carry out at least 60 min of physical activity per day only 42.5% of children said they had breakfast every day primarily the different ages of the participants the weight loss was substantial as well some lifestyle indicators have undergone significant improvements Another limitation of the present study is the lack of data on the socio-economic Larger studies with long-term follow-up are therefore needed to corroborate our findings We evaluated the effect of a 6-month-long intervention on lifestyle and diet quality in schools in Southern Italy The children and adolescents participating in the study achieved a reduction in BMI and better adherence to nutritional recommendations assessed by the diet quality indices The school intervention program represents an effective strategy for preventing the problem of childhood overweight and obesity The datasets presented in this article are not readily available because of participant privacy. 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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) *Correspondence: Antonella Muscella, YW50b25lbGxhLm11c2NlbGxhQHVuaXNhbGVudG8uaXQ= The journalist passed away at the age of 70 a serious professional and always ready for confrontation commenting on the death of the journalist Maria Giovanna Maglie "My sincere condolences to all her loved ones," adds Meloni The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport will write .st1{fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;fill:#2a2a2a} his name is forever entrenched in baseball legend after what he did at Yankee Stadium on Oct of which the 62nd anniversary is less than a week away as the Yankees get set for the postseason on Wednesday pitched the only perfect game in World Series history after defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0 in Game 5 61 years ago on Sunday The win gave the Yanks a 3-2 series lead as they eventually went on to win the Fall Classic What made Larsen's gem remarkable is he wasn't a star he only lasted 1 2/3 innings in Game 2 after a hit four walks and a big error helped the Dodgers erase an early 6-0 deficit en route to a 13-8 victory It wasn't easy though as several defensive gems and timely hitting helped the Indiana native come out on top 1958) while posting a 4-2 record with a 2.75 ERA in the World Series which explores exactly how Larsen achieved his accomplishment who decided late in the regular season to exclusively pitch from the stretch needed just 97 pitches to defeat the Dodgers including pinch hitter Dale Mitchell to end the game Baseball tradition says mum is the word when someone is pitching a no-hitter or perfect game Larsen had no qualms bringing it up in the dugout between innings seen here with teammates Bobby Thomson and Larry Jansen during his playing days with the New York Giants was the Brooklyn Dodgers' starting pitcher the day Don Larsen pitched a Perfect Game who was nicknamed 'The Barber,' pitched extremely well despite losing Game 5 The right-hander allowed just two earned runs on five hits and two walks and struck out five has the distinction of being the only player to compete for the Yankees Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants in his career The Dodgers' shortstop was the only player to work a three-ball count against Larsen when he did so in the first inning The Dodgers' famous third baseman nearly broke up the perfect game leading off the top of the second inning when he hit a hot shot to Yankees' third baseman Andy Carey but caromed right to Yankees' shortstop Gil McDougald who caught it and fired a strike to first baseman Joe Collins to get Robinson by a step The Yankees scored the only run they'd need when the great Mickey Mantle batting left-handed against right-hander Sal Maglie belted a solo homer to the right-field stands seen here with Pittsburgh Pirates great Ralph Kiner was the only other player to mount a serious threat of breaking up Larsen's perfect game with one out in the top of the fifth inning The righty-hitting Hodges drilled a shot toward left-center Fleet-footed centerfielder Mickey Mantle got a good jump on Gil Hodges' line drive to left-center before hauling it in in stride for the second out of the fifth seen here hugging Joe DiMaggio earlier in his career provided the Yankees with an insurance run in the sixth when he knocked in Andy Carey with an RBI single who led off the sixth with a single to center When Larsen ended the game by striking out pinch hitter Dale Mitchell looking 5-foot-8 Yankees catcher Yogi Berra immediately ran to Larsen and jumped into the 6-4 pitcher's arms just as he reached the first-base line the most recognizable picture pertaining to Larsen's Perfect Game who checked his swing on the called third strike How did Don Larsen (left) celebrate his gem then a sports reporter for the old Daily Mirror Larsen and Richman met up with nightclub comedian Bill "Moose" Skowron didn't play during Don Larsen's Perfect Game got the start and belted a grand slam during Game 7 two days later as the Bronx Bombers defeated the Dodgers 9-0 avenged their Series loss of 1955 by winning the 1956 World Series 4-3 receives congratulations from Dodgers' manager Walter Alston after the Bronx Bombers won the 1956 World Series 4-3 The 1956 Series marked the seventh and final time the Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers played in the Fall Classic along with the New York Giants (to San Francisco) The Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in six of seven World Series between 1941 and 1956 the only pitcher to throw a Perfect Game in World Series play 1999 when Yankees' right-hander David Cone pitched a Perfect Game against the Montreal Expos Larsen was in attendance for Yogi Berra Day Larsen congratulates Cone in the Yankees clubhouse after the game Don Larsen became one of the few surviving players from both the Yankees and Dodgers to play in the 1956 World Series Just how rare is it to throw a Perfect Game in addition to Larsen's gem 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All rights reserved (About Us) The material on this site may not be reproduced except with the prior written permission of Advance Local Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site YouTube's privacy policy is available here and YouTube's terms of service is available here Ad Choices and every sinner a future,” author and playright Oscar Wilde once said and he could have been talking about Ray Ward whose proposal to operate Sal Maglie Stadium was Completely rebuilt in 1999 under the direction of former Mayor James Galie who hoped to see it become the home of a minor league baseball team Sal Maglie Stadium has fallen into disrepair over the years Operated by the Niagara Falls City School District primarily for use by its sports teams the peeling paint and broken seats speak for themselves the school district gave the stadium back to the city which then set about trying to find an operator a Wheatfield resident and youth baseball enthusiast who saw the facility as an answer to a prayer “You’ve got a stadium where Johnny Bench played one that saw thousands of professional baseball games over the years,” Ward told the Niagara Falls Reporter “What kid wouldn’t want to play there the only ones who got the chance were those on the high school team.” Ward said that a combination of elbow grease sponsorships and contributions from the youth leagues which pay for field time no matter where they’re playing could make operating Sal Maglie a break even proposition And the sale of food and soft drinks – Ward is a restaurateur by profession –just might enable him to turn a profit on the operation “I’m an advocate of youth baseball,” Ward said “That’s what I’m doing here.” where things are rarely heartwarming and never simple Ward sold Ray's Sanborn Pizzeria on Saunders Settlement Rd where he bought a franchise in the Southern Indoor Football League for the Mobile Bay Tarpons and I felt like I needed to get out and chase a dream,” he said nowhere near enough to launch a professional sports franchise Tarpons head coach Willie Gaston said that he and players on the team were becoming increasingly suspicious even before the first game of the season and I always thought an arena football team would work in Mobile,” Gaston told the Reporter “I signed a contract for the season at $10,000 and never saw a dime of it.” who was an All Conference defensive back at the University of Alabama and went on to play for the Houston Oilers of the NFL said Ward showed up in a beat up jalopy and made calls using a flip phone held together with duct tape He made a killing down here,” Gaston said The team’s first two games augured well Home field upsets of the established Georgia and Abilene teams had the fans in Mobile excited said he knew something was amiss when the credit card transaction appeared on his statement as a purchase at a Ward’s New York pizzeria As far as Gaston and the team were concerned “And this was even after Ward pressured everyone to get their families to buy season ticket packages.” He said about a week before the first game the players were asked if they could buy their own equipment and that’s when he knew it was time to cut ties "Everybody wanted it so bad,” Barber said "… there really was a lot of … effort from the players and coaches Barber said Ward may have started out with good intentions but "got in over his head” and instead of taking responsibility "Ray Ward had no money.” Gaston said He made us believe we didn’t have anything to worry about.” Rent to Mitchell Arena where the Tarpons played had not been paid Ward said that the league misled him on the price and dimensions of the stadium were actually 10 yards too small for the team to play regulation games Gaston said that on the day of the team’s third game Ward told him he needed to go back to New York in order to raise money to keep the Tarpons running It would be the last time he would ever see the man who had hired him The bus the team was given to make the 12 hour drive had no bathrooms and no air conditioning After being beaten badly by the Abilene squad they reluctantly boarded the bus for the ride back to Mobile “We didn’t get back to Mobile until late Monday,” Gaston said “Guys got fired from their regular jobs How are you supposed to support your family Now Ward’s was nowhere to be found and I’m dealing with these players who never got paid Gaston said he tried to call Ward repeatedly but found that every number he had had been disconnected Ward said that he sold the team to Roland Turner though he couldn’t produce the contract as of press time Turner’s account of the day Ward left town - as told to the Alabama publication Lagniappe was different than Ward's: "Ray kept calling my phone but I didn’t answer because I was on a conference call and Ray (was upset) claimed to have heart problems so I was worried he was having a heart attack but I don’t have any money to get up there.’ So I gave him $1,500 and sent him on his way He called me a little later saying he had a flat tire so I sent a mechanic and a tire out there to him And I haven’t heard from him since .. saying Turner made him the "fall guy," when he decided not to field the team "I left thinking he was the owner and I suppose he realized that the league was falling apart and he probably thought 'let Ray Ward take the blame.'" it looks like Ray Ward screwed ‘em…. He rode into Mobile a few months ago with big promises of establishing a legitimate professional sports team everybody was left screwed over: the players local businessmen and pretty much anyone in the area who cares about Mobile "… The players and coaches never got paid The season ticket holders didn’t get an entire season The sponsors got next to nothing for their money Ward skipped out on a nearly $30,000 tab with the Mitchell Center Local businessman Roland Turner says he is out nearly $40,000 because of Ward Ward even walked out on equipment and apparel debt to Bowen Sports and Riddell the money for several pairs of shoulder pads ended up coming out of the paycheck of a local Riddell representative The Tarpons had an advertising contract with Lagniappe it’s a pretty sizable list of people Ward burned but there may be countless others who just haven’t come forward Ward told me he would be here 30 years if that’s what it took to make the Tarpons successful Did he come to Mobile planning to screw us all over?" When the Reporter asked Ward why he didn't rebut the harsh criticism that appeared in the local Mobile media at the time a "gag order" that prevented him from talking about the sale Some of what Ward claims is backed up by the fact that the SIFL apparently thought Turner bought the team from Ward since a letter was sent by SIFL commissioner Gary Tufford to some 600 season ticket holders saying that Turner (not Ward) should be contacted if they wanted a refund on their season tickets Turner told Lagniappe that the SIFL spent weeks "drawing up paperwork” but ultimately the SIFL could not come up with satisfactory terms and Turner declined ownership Which brings us back to baseball and Niagara Falls. I’m just trying to save Sal Maglie Stadium,” Ward told the Reporter “I’ve learned from (the Mobile experience).. I felt bad about it for a long time and I still feel bad about it Cal Kern to keep the Niagara Power playing there; will field little league teams and Ward will pay rent to the city and make repairs himself at the stadium at no cost to the city the deal with the city will be on a one year trial basis "It won't cost the city a dime," Ward said Ward described the way he would set up teams and provided information that showed he had some teams already lined up for games- at reduced prices they charged $1,100 per game - which made it out of reach for little league teams Ward said he will be charging $150 per game just enough to break even - and affordable for teams Ward explained: "Sal (Maglie Stadium) needs a lot of work It's not like it needs millions of dollars worth of work that’s probably the most expensive part; the concessions stands are right up there with it but that's what I do… I just think if you keep a good product on the field (concession) the easier it is to get them to spend money… just focus on Sal and what it can do for some kids Since the early thirties it has created memories; local baseball is fading and baseball is affordable especially for Niagara Falls… "I’d like to see Sal succeed; it deserves to succeed; that place is gorgeous I know what kids are playing in… Sal is better "Right now I have over 100 games tentatively scheduled I have 13- 16 year olds that are going to travel out of there… existing travel (little league baseball) organizations that didn't have a home Two teams are from Tonawanda; one from Amherst "There is nothing like Sal Maglie around It is one of the finest stadiums you can play little league…. Let’s have all the kids running through there It is =an affordable way for parents to create memories These are the years when we can create memories I have had a lot of people come up to me and say to me 'I used to come up there with my dad and the lights were on and they were playing ball.' Those are the things you want you want the community involved and it's affordable Will Ward prove to be a savior or a charlatan Will he be a saint with a past or a sinner with a future NEW YORK (AP) — Ralph Lauren is offering create-it-yourself crewnecks as customization gains popularity with shoppers customers online and at a Manhattan store can choose what they want The sweater will be knit to order and arrive at their homes within two weeks a price the company says is about the same as a regular crewneck Ralph Lauren opened a custom shop at its London flagship store where customers can embroider and add patches to Polo shirts The company also says it had success with customizable T-shirts for men women and children at the Polo Ralph Lauren Shops at the U.S Chief innovation officer David Lauren says the company hopes to eventually have custom shops at all its stores Stay secure and make sure you have the best reading experience possible by upgrading your browser when the Giants' Sal Maglie was overwhelming the Dodgers Brooklyn shortstop Pee Wee Reese told Robinson he had to do something The bat boy overheard the whispered conversation "Come on Jack," Reese's voice carried from the dugout The bunt carried accurately toward first baseman Whitey Lockman But Maglie lingered in the safety of the mound and a second baseman named Davey Williams took his place Lockman's throw reached Williams at first base A knee crashed into Williams' lower spine and Williams spun into the air and when he fell he lay in an awkward sprawl as people do when they are seriously injured two innings later Alvin Dark sought the Giants' revenge by hitting a double to left and then refusing to stop going to third where he could take on Robinson -- and according to the story Robinson dropped the ball trying to smash a tag into Dark's head But I remember the passage and re-read it every so often not for the history but for the emotion -- it reminds me of just how ferociously Robinson played I have this theory -- one that I used to talk about sometimes with my old friend Buck O'Neil -- that Jackie Robinson was the type of player and the type of man who needed a purpose to bring out his greatness We often hear about the opposite -- players who drive in meaningless runs or only seem to pitch well when the game is out of hand People will talk all the time about how there are certain baseball players who can handle the pressure of playing in New York (and even have that pressure lift their game) and certain players who cannot handle it at all I don't know how much I buy into it; but I've always thought there is a worthwhile study to be done on the subject But I do believe that Jackie Robinson was a man who needed the intensity the deep understanding that he was a player in American history -- needed all of it to crystallize his goals and become the player he became Jackie Robinson was more athlete than baseball player when the Dodgers signed him He was known in the black newspapers -- like the Kansas City Call and Chicago Defender -- as "UCLA football ace Jackie Robinson" or "famous track star Jackie Robinson." Baseball was famously his worst sport at UCLA (he hit about .100 in his one year) and he only played one year for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro leagues He made the East-West All Star game (he went 0 for 5) but the general perception at the time was that Robinson was not the best big league prospect on the Monarchs -- not with Satchel Paige and Hilton Smith on the team and Willard Brown coming back from the war and so on Robinson was a bit older -- he was 28 when he made it to the big leagues you may remember Bob Feller's scouting report on Robinson after seeing him play -- too tight in the shoulders "If he were a white man," Feller said "I doubt they would consider him big league material." And whatever this may say to you about Feller If Robinson was clearly a great player at the time The simple truth seems to be that Robinson was no sure thing as a baseball player He had played with white players before and earned their respect He had refused to go to the back of the bus while in the army Jackie Robinson wasn't the BEST player But what does this mean -- the RIGHT player It seems to me that what has made Jackie Robinson perhaps the most important player in baseball history is not that he was the first African-American to play in the big leagues And it was not that he blended dignity and ferocity in equal measure a hard balance that made him both the underdog and the favorite and the same time his greatest contribution was simply that he was a GREAT player He understood that he could not fail -- Robinson took a deep breath there WASN'T anybody else -- that he was carrying the weight of the world and the moon and the stars on his shoulders and that failure was too awful and too calamitous to even think about He scored 21 runs through his first 21 games His batting average dropped to .263 in early June and he promptly hit in 27 of his next 28 games raising it to .315 and leaving absolutely no doubt in anybody's mind that And I believe that it was a perfect intersection of man and moment; we will never know what kind of baseball player Jackie Robinson would have been had he come up in 1993 he would not have heard all the slurs and received all the death threats but he also may not have had a great objective to drive him and the powerful conviction of being right That gets us back to Robinson's remarkable ability to get on base That was at the core of his greatness as a player His career .409 on-base percentage ranks 23rd among non-active players with 5,000 or more plate appearances over a six-year period -- 1949-54 -- Robinson's on-base percentage was a staggeringly good .428 Pujols of more recent vintage) have ever gotten on base like Jackie Robinson did in his prime It was getting on base so much that allowed Robinson to score all those runs (99 or more in his first seven years) and steal all those bases (he twice led the league) and lead the Brooklyn Dodgers to six World Series He was hit by a lot of pitches for his era -- he finished first second or third in HBP seven times in his 10-year career He bunted a lot (he led the league in sacrifice hits twice) He hit the ball hard a lot (hit double-digit home runs every year but one; was among the league leaders in doubles and triples several times) he was a shooting star burning across the sky "He was a hard out," was the way Yogi Berra said it "I don't know any other ballplayer who could have done what he did," Pee Wee Reese told Roger Kahn "The greatest competitor I've ever seen," Duke Snider said at his Hall of Fame induction A hundred million words have been spilled trying to explain Jackie Robinson and his impact on the game and on America But I have always liked this bit from the poet Langston Hughes He used to write a column in the Chicago Defender revolving around a conversation with a character called Simple headlined "Matter for a Book," Simple announced that he went to see Jackie Robinson play ball the day before "But to get back to Jackie -- I did not mean to holler so loud when he stole them two bases yesterday I am going to holler when he's up to bat." "But if Jackie were not good you would stop hollering JOE POSNANSKI The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only Betting and gambling content is intended for individuals 21+ and is based on individual commentators' opinions and not that of Sports Illustrated or its affiliates All picks and predictions are suggestions only and not a guarantee of success or profit If you or someone you know has a gambling problem crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER 9) in Niagara Falls as part of the “Field of Miracles the Return,” a three-day Christian event in Sal Maglie Stadium It was thrown by a minor leaguer in the Pittsburgh Pirates system who pitched just 19 games as a professional and was witnessed by fewer than 3,000 people on a Thursday night in Niagara Falls Maglie – a year removed from his stint as pitching coach for the Seattle Pilots – was back in his hometown working as the general manager of the Niagara Falls Pirates of the short-season Class A New York-Penn League the Pirates’ ballpark was renamed in Maglie’s honor But in 1970 it was still known as Hyde Park Stadium named for the large city park in which it sits only Ott appeared in Niagara Falls’ home game of July 23 Arrendale posted a 5-5 record and a 2.62 ERA in 12 games Garcia led the league in home runs that year with 14 Newark’s starting pitcher that night also put up formidable, league-leading statistics. Bill Leinheiser, a 6-foot-4 rookie righty from Arizona State University, finished the 1970 season with a 9-2 record and a league-best 1.01 ERA. In 11 starts, he recorded 10 complete games and four shutouts, and struck out 90 hitters in 89 innings.8 the highlights belonged entirely to the pitchers Newark’s Leinheiser walked only three and struck out 11 in seven strong innings before leaving for a pinch-hitter Reliever Rich Stonum took over in the bottom of the eighth and whiffed all three hitters he faced Maglie summarized the outing by saying, “There was nothing that came close to being a hit.” Newark manager Johnson praised Arrendale’s control and mix of pitches, and agreed that Standart’s play on Holmberg’s groundball was correctly scored as an error rather than a hit.15 The noteworthy figures in the July 23 game scattered on different paths after the 1970 season ended. Maglie left Organized Baseball for good, working for a liquor distributor and the Niagara Falls Convention Bureau.16 Niagara Falls manager Noren won three World Series rings as a coach with the 1972-74 Oakland A’s dynasty while right fielder Ott played for the 1979 World Series champion Pittsburgh Pirates Garcia hit 15 homers as a rookie with the 1973 Brewers and led the American League with 32 doubles but struggled to hit for average during a five-year big-league career Holmberg became a minor-league manager of many years’ standing and also served in 1994 and 1995 as the Toronto Blue Jays’ bullpen coach In addition to the specific sources cited in the Notes the author consulted Baseball-Reference.com and Retrosheet.org for general player Neither Baseball-Reference nor Retrosheet provides box scores of minor-league games editions of the Geneva (New York) Times and Niagara Falls (New York) Gazette published box scores The box score that accompanies this piece appeared in the Geneva newspaper The author thanks fultonhistory.org for making the cited newspapers available online 1 Bill Wolcott “Easiest One I Ever Saw – Maglie,” Niagara Falls (New York) Gazette 2 While Ott played almost entirely as a catcher during his eight-year big-league career he appeared exclusively in the outfield with Niagara Falls in 1970 Niagara Falls’ starting catcher on July 23 a 21-year-old rookie who hit .103 in 55 games 3 “Highlanders Lose Arrendale to Bucs,” Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune 4 Bill Wolcott “Falls Bucs’ Arrendale No-Hits Newark 1-0,” Niagara Falls Gazette The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is a college sports association for small colleges and universities 5 “IWU in Pros,” Indiana Wesleyan University website Marion College changed its name to Indiana Wesleyan University in 1988 6 Judith Testa, “Sal Maglie,” SABR Biography Project 7 “Co-Pilot Slump Hits Bottom with No-Hitter,” Geneva (New York) Times The Co-Pilots ended the season in fourth place with a 36-33 record 8 League leadership information for Garcia and Leinheiser taken from the 2019 New York Penn-League media guide 9 Wolcott 10 Sullivan reached base either through a walk or an error but game accounts are not specific 11 Wolcott 12 “Co-Pilot Slump Hits Bottom with No-Hitter.” 13 “Co-Pilot Slump Hits Bottom with No-Hitter.” 14 Wolcott 15 Wolcott 16 “Sal Maglie.” 17 Grant County Sports Hall of Fame, “Charlie Arrendale.” Accessed online August 14 Minor Leagues · 1970s · No-Hitters