#Willie McCovey

[jedivoodoochile]

Actor and future minor league baseball player Kurt Russell meets Willie McCovey.

[sanfranciscoblog]

A statue of Giants legend Willie McCovey stands across from Pac Bell Park, at the entrance to the channel now called McCovey Cove in his honor.

[bostonfly]

I know a guy who REALLY loves baseball. This is "Bob Gibson Vs. Willie McCovey".

(not my photos)

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[principiumindividuationis777]

[randrcards]

Willie McCovey 2022 Donruss # 164

[baseballbybsmile]

Today In 1978: San Francisco Giants legend Willie McCovey hits career HR #500!

[manwalksintobar]

Thought A Rarity On Paper // Billy Collins

Here I am thanking you for this fine copy of Jack Spicer’s posthumous “One Night Stand and Other Poems” (Grey Fox Press, 1980), introductions by Donald Allen and Robert Duncan.

It’s such a rare little bird, I was careful to purify my hands before sliding it out of its clear Mylar sleeve.

I was careful, too, when I turned the pages, but when Jesus began making out his will and Alice in Wonderland went missing from the chessboard, the book had to be restrained from taking flight and flapping its many wings against a window pane.

So now, the front cover is bent back a little like a clam with its shell slightly ajar the way Spicer’s mouth could look sometimes when we would see him at Gino and Carlo or in the park by the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, where he would often sit cross-legged under a shade tree.

There on hot summer afternoons he would suffer the company of young poets if they observed the courtesy of arriving with cold quart bottles of Rainier Ale, as green as the sports section of the paper.

It was a practice that my friend Tom and I and his friend A. B. Cole followed religiously. Spicer even called us “The Jesuits” for he knew where we had gone to school.

To be imperfectly truthful, I was intimidated by his reality— a lonely homosexual adult who dressed funnily in summery shirts and baggy pants, belt buckle to the side, his sad moon-face pocked as the moon itself, and with a name like a medieval vender’s.

He would talk about poetics, of which we knew nothing, and about the other Berkeley poets, but we poetry juniors felt more at home when he talked about Willie McCovey and we would be on to another still cold quart.

Then a forceful wind came off the Bay and blew Jack Spicer away, found a year later at 40 on the floor of an elevator going neither up nor down.

Later still, Tom would be blown over a golden bridge, his soft inner arm full of holes, and I sadly lost track of the sardonic Andy Cole.

And here I still remain, more than twice Spicer’s final age, rolling through the pages of his little book,

listening to his bewildering birds, and watching Beauty walk, not like a lake but among the coffee cups and soup tureens,

causing me to open my hands and allow this green aeronaut of paper to lift off and fly around my yellow house and beat its wings against glass as the thrilling sky continues to change slowly from blue to black then, miraculously, back to blue once more.

[porterdavis]

They don't make them like they used to...

Vintage Baseball  :

July 2, 1963 Warren Spahn, 42, and Juan Marichal, 25, pitch, in my opinion, the most amazing pitching duel in the history of the game. They both pitched 16 innings that day. Spahn throwing 201 pitches and Marichal throwing 227. The game ends on a walk-off home run by Willie Mays with the score at 1-0. Absolutely incredible. To address all the modern day thinking that pitchers throw harder so they can’t go as long is preposterous. With modern day training and nutrition, today’s athletes should be able to go longer. Spahn was 42 and at the end of his career throwing against Kuenn, Mays, McCovey, Cepeda and F. Alou. The idea that he wasn’t throwing as hard as he could on each pitch which would cause just as much strain as a modern day pitcher with much better conditioning is laughable. Spahn went on to win 10 more games that year and finished the season with 23 wins and a 2.60 ERA. Which just goes to show that he didn’t throw out his arm, even at 42 years old.

[lboogie1906]

Willie Lee McCovey (January 10, 1938 – October 31, 2018) was an MLB first baseman, nicknamed "Stretch", "Mac" and "Willie Mac". He played in MLB as a first baseman from 1959 to 1980, most notably as a member of the San Francisco Giants for whom he played for 19 seasons. He played for the San Diego Padres and Oakland Athletics in the latter part of his MLB career. He was born in Mobile, the seventh child of ten born to Frank McCovey, a railroad worker, and Esther. He married Karen McCovey and produced a daughter. He married his longtime girlfriend Estela Bejar (2018). A fearsome left-handed power hitter, at the time of his retirement in 1980, he ranked second only to Babe Ruth in career home runs among left-handed batters, and seventh overall. As of 2022, he ranks 20th overall on baseball's all-time home run list, tied with Ted Williams and Frank Thomas. He was a six-time All-Star, three-time home run champion, and MVP, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1986 in his first year of eligibility, only the 16th man so honored, at the time. He played 19 seasons with the Giants and three more for the San Diego Padres and Oakland Athletics. A fearsome left-handed hitter, he was a six-time All-Star, three-time home run champion, and MVP, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, only the 16th man so honored. He was known as a dead-pull line-drive hitter, causing some teams to employ a shift against him. Seventh on baseball's all-time home run list when he retired, he was called "the scariest hitter in baseball" by pitcher Bob Gibson, seconded by similarly feared slugger Reggie Jackson. He lashed 521 home runs, 231 launched in Candlestick Park, the most thereby any player. One on September 16, 1966, was described as the longest-ever hit in that stadium. He was inducted into the Multi-Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame (formerly the Afro Sports Hall of Fame) in Oakland on February 7, 2009. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CnO9fftLNVc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 1.10

Beer Birthdays

William Copeland (1834)

Nancy Johnson (1961)

Todd Alstrom (1969)

Eric Salazar (1973)

Frances Michelle (1987)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Pat Benatar; rock singer (1953)

Jim Croce; pop singer (1943)

Donald Fagen; musician (1948)

Bernard Lee; actor, "M" (1908)

Max Roach; jazz musician, drummer (1925)

Famous Birthdays

John Acton; English historian (1834)

Stephen Ambrose; historian, writer (1936)

Earl Bakken; inventor (1924)

Sune Bergström; Swedish biochemist (1916)

Katherine Blodgett; inventor, scientist (1898)

Ray Bolger; actor (1904)

Francis X. Bushman; actor, director, and screenwriter (1883)

Jared Carter; poet and author (1939)

Shawn Colvin; singer (1956)

Eldzier Cortor; painter (1916)

Roy E. Disney; businessman, Disney CEO (1930)

Dean Dixon; American-Swiss conductor (1915)

Aynsley Dunbar; English drummer and songwriter (1946)

George Foreman; boxer (1939)

Cynthia Freeman; author (1915)

Al Goldstein; pornographer (1936)

Evan Handler; actor (1961)

Ronnie Hawkins; rockabilly singer (1935)

Paul Henried; actor (1908)

Barbara Hepworth; sculptor (1903)

Rosella Hightower; ballerina (1920)

Walter Hill; film director (1942)

David Horowitz; activist and author (1939)

Frank James; outlaw (1843)

Robinson Jeffers; poet, writer (1887)

Janet Jones; actor (1961)

Jeffrey Catherine Jones; comics and fantasy artist (1944)

Donald Knuth; mathematician, computer scientist (1938)

Philip Levine; poet (1928)

Martin Lichtenstein; German physician and explorer (1780)

Linda Lovelace; pornstar (1939)

Willie McCovey; San Francisco Giants 1B (1938)

J.P. McEvoy; writer (1897)

Sal Mineo; actor (1939)

Cyril Neville; musician (1948)

Milton Parker; businessman, co-founder of the Carnegie Deli (1919)

Johnnie Ray; singer-songwriter and pianist (1927)

Charles G. D. Roberts; Canadian poet and author (1860)

John Root; architect (1850)

Michael Schenker; German guitarist and songwriter (1955)

Tony Soper; English ornithologist (1929)

Rod Stewart; pop singer (1945)

Scott Thurston; American guitarist and songwriter (1952)

Bill Toomey; Olympic gold medalist for Decathlon (1939)

Robert Woodrow Wilson; physicist and astronomer (1936)

Johannes Zick; German painter (1702)

Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg; German composer (1760)

[collectingall]

∀ Willie McCovey Beckett BAS Signed 1992 Personal Check Autograph http://blog.collectingall.com/TChQdM 👉 shrsl.com/4fuj5 👈

[sanfranciscoblog]

A statue of SF Giants legend Willie McCovey stands over McCovey Cove, opposite the ballpark.

[sportstemplates]

San Francisco Giants memorial patches

Lon Simmons (2015)

Monte Irvin (2016)

Jim "Davvy" Davenport (2016)

Willie "Stretch" McCovey (2019)

Peter McGowan (2019)

Gaylord Perry (2023)

Vida Blue (2023)

Willie Mays (2024)

Orlando Cepeda (2024)

[irishgop]

Four Eponymous Giants

Player. Yr.s w/Giants

Felipe Alou. 1958-1963

Harvey Kuenn. 1961-1965

Willie Mays. 1954 -1972

Willie McCovey 1959-1973

While most MLB fans of my generation probably recognize all four names because of their legendary play for the San Fransisco Giants, the only played together for the four years from 1961-1965. All four were standouts in the Giants offense. While Alou, Mays, and McCovey are famous largely for accolades they win while Giants’ players, Kuenn was a solid offensive presence, hitting line drives to all fields, who would end his career with 308 average. He also will be remembered as yielding the final out to arch-rival Dodgers Sandy Koufax in 2 of his four no-hitters, the latter being a perfect game Koufax pitched in 1965.

[michaelcosio]

Farewell Candlestick: 10 Year Update On San Francisco's Legendary Stadium

Dec 19, 2023

The last San Francisco 49ers game at Candlestick Park was 10 years ago.

Let's revisit the site of so many championship teams and hall of famers on the south end of San Francisco. Candlestick was one of the most storied stadiums in all of sports.

Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Steve Young, Barry Bonds, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Will Clark, Juan Marichal, John Madden, Kruk & Kuip, Vin Scully, Terrell Owens, Frank Gore, The Beatles and so many more built their legacies right here at the former site of Candlestick Park.

From legendary 49ers and Giants games to behind the scenes tours, we'll talk about the sports history and our personal memories.

Shoutout all my friends & fam with me in these memories, you guys mean the world to me.

from vVARIETY [Hosted by Dylan Sesco]