Comments on: Sixto Lezcano http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/ Voice of the Mathematically Eliminated Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:11:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Josh Wilker http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-8849 Josh Wilker Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:33:57 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-8849 wisconsinteams: Thanks very much for sharing those great memories of the Sixto years. I love the image of the neighborhood kids spilling out onto the street. dw17: Thanks for that story, also. Hilarious. wisconsinteams:
Thanks very much for sharing those great memories of the Sixto years. I love the image of the neighborhood kids spilling out onto the street.

dw17:
Thanks for that story, also. Hilarious.

]]> By: dw17 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-8848 dw17 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:03:38 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-8848 Being a Northern Wisconsin kid during the Sixto era, I vividly remember those opening games also. Listening on the radio to Uecker and Merle Harmon was the best. That opening Baltimore series led to one of the funniest baseball stories I've ever heard. Molitor was hitting everything that series as was most of the rest of the the Crew, and in a post game chewing out, O's Skipper Earl Weaver singled out relievers Tippy Martinez and Joe Kerrigan and called them "Famine" and "Pestilence"......"because you're a couple f'ing natural disasters." Being a Northern Wisconsin kid during the Sixto era, I vividly remember those opening games also. Listening on the radio to Uecker and Merle Harmon was the best. That opening Baltimore series led to one of the funniest baseball stories I’ve ever heard. Molitor was hitting everything that series as was most of the rest of the the Crew, and in a post game chewing out, O’s Skipper Earl Weaver singled out relievers Tippy Martinez and Joe Kerrigan and called them “Famine” and “Pestilence”……”because you’re a couple f’ing natural disasters.”

]]> By: wisconsinteams http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-8847 wisconsinteams Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:34:51 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-8847 Thank you for this post. I keenly remember the Age of Lezcano. I grew up just south of Milwaukee; I began following the Brewers beginning in 1976, after attending a Graf's Soda Jacket Day game versus the Indians. By 1977 I was falling asleep each summer night listening to Brewer games, awakened to hear the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, which generally followed the Brewer broadcasts and generally terrified me. Many Brewers loyalists will remember that Sixto hit Opening Day grand slams in both 1978 and 1980. In 1978 (the year the Brewers debuted new uniforms that EVERY kid worshipped), he slammed vs the Orioles to kick off a series in which the Brewers slammed in each of the 3 games, outscoring the Orioles 40-11, and officially ushering in the new era of Brewer baseball. In 1980, Sixto slammed in the 9th to defeat the Red Sox, causing my neighborhood kids to simultaneously stream out of their houses and into the street, in one of those homeplate moshpits you see all the time these days. Who knew one game in a 162-game season could mean so much to a 12 year old? Thank you for this post. I keenly remember the Age of Lezcano. I grew up just south of Milwaukee; I began following the Brewers beginning in 1976, after attending a Graf’s Soda Jacket Day game versus the Indians. By 1977 I was falling asleep each summer night listening to Brewer games, awakened to hear the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, which generally followed the Brewer broadcasts and generally terrified me. Many Brewers loyalists will remember that Sixto hit Opening Day grand slams in both 1978 and 1980. In 1978 (the year the Brewers debuted new uniforms that EVERY kid worshipped), he slammed vs the Orioles to kick off a series in which the Brewers slammed in each of the 3 games, outscoring the Orioles 40-11, and officially ushering in the new era of Brewer baseball. In 1980, Sixto slammed in the 9th to defeat the Red Sox, causing my neighborhood kids to simultaneously stream out of their houses and into the street, in one of those homeplate moshpits you see all the time these days. Who knew one game in a 162-game season could mean so much to a 12 year old?

]]> By: BeerPlease http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-1402 BeerPlease Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:01:25 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-1402 <b><a></a>22.</b>  Interesting discussion... sorry I'm so late in arriving. I grew in in Milwaukee in the 70, so of course I remember Sixto very fondly. I even remember the man he replaced - how can anyone forget the great Bobby Coluccio? Seriously, though. Am I the only person who remembers hearing that Sixto Lezcano was missing a sizable portion of one (or both) of his feet? The story I read was that he had a hunting accident as a child. Is my memory playing tricks on me? Beer Please! 22.  Interesting discussion… sorry I’m so late in arriving. I grew in in Milwaukee in the 70, so of course I remember Sixto very fondly. I even remember the man he replaced – how can anyone forget the great Bobby Coluccio?

Seriously, though. Am I the only person who remembers hearing that Sixto Lezcano was missing a sizable portion of one (or both) of his feet? The story I read was that he had a hunting accident as a child.

Is my memory playing tricks on me?

Beer Please!

]]> By: JL25and3 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-1401 JL25and3 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:52:22 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-1401 <b><a></a>21.</b>  <a href="#11" rel="nofollow">11</a> "Pebbly Jack" Glasscock? 21.  11 “Pebbly Jack” Glasscock?

]]> By: El Lay Dave http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-1400 El Lay Dave Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:08:37 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-1400 <b><a></a>20.</b>  I always wished he'd been nicknamed "The Sixto Kid". 20.  I always wished he’d been nicknamed “The Sixto Kid”.

]]> By: hensley http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-1399 hensley Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:04:08 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-1399 <b><a></a>19.</b>  Sixto has long been a favorite of mine b/c his last name is of Basque derivation, one letter off from my mother's maiden name. Though he himself was Puerto Rican, I believe. 19.  Sixto has long been a favorite of mine b/c his last name is of Basque derivation, one letter off from my mother’s maiden name. Though he himself was Puerto Rican, I believe.

]]> By: levistahl http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-1398 levistahl Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:47:25 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-1398 <b><a></a>18.</b>  I only got to know Sixto in his last year, when he was a Pirate and I admired his name (and those round-topped hats) on his baseball card. I actually didn't realize until now that he was such a good player in his prime. That's what being good in 1970s Milwaukee will get you, I guess. 18.  I only got to know Sixto in his last year, when he was a Pirate and I admired his name (and those round-topped hats) on his baseball card. I actually didn’t realize until now that he was such a good player in his prime. That’s what being good in 1970s Milwaukee will get you, I guess.

]]> By: dianagramr http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-1397 dianagramr Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:42:30 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-1397 <b><a></a>17.</b>  Lezcano's 1979 SOM card .... a freak of nature. http://tinyurl.com/349wsz 17.  Lezcano’s 1979 SOM card …. a freak of nature.

http://tinyurl.com/349wsz

]]> By: Josh Wilker http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-1396 Josh Wilker Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:04:44 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/09/12/sixto-lezcano/#comment-1396 <b><a></a>16.</b>  I just spent the last few minutes reading new comments on old posts. These comments appear from time to time, perhaps more than they would if this blog was ever concerned with timely issues. I get happy any time I see a comment on an old post--I set up the "archive by team" sidebar to encourage people to dig through my box of old cards, so to speak. There have been some good comments on old posts, too, but it's sort of unlikely that anyone is going to know they are there unless they also happen to click on that old post, so I'm going to start using a comment in current posts to note new comments on old posts. Starting now... There are new comments on Ben Oglivie (Ramblin' Pete fleshes out the view of me and my brother's old bulletin board of fame), Joe Wallis, Reggie Jackson (Yankee card), and Mario Guerrero (1974 Red Sox card). I can't remember right now any others of less recent vintage, but I did want to direct readers to an entertaining comment that I do recall, attached to the beautiful 1975 Ed Brinkman card. 16.  I just spent the last few minutes reading new comments on old posts. These comments appear from time to time, perhaps more than they would if this blog was ever concerned with timely issues. I get happy any time I see a comment on an old post–I set up the “archive by team” sidebar to encourage people to dig through my box of old cards, so to speak. There have been some good comments on old posts, too, but it’s sort of unlikely that anyone is going to know they are there unless they also happen to click on that old post, so I’m going to start using a comment in current posts to note new comments on old posts. Starting now…

There are new comments on Ben Oglivie (Ramblin’ Pete fleshes out the view of me and my brother’s old bulletin board of fame), Joe Wallis, Reggie Jackson (Yankee card), and Mario Guerrero (1974 Red Sox card). I can’t remember right now any others of less recent vintage, but I did want to direct readers to an entertaining comment that I do recall, attached to the beautiful 1975 Ed Brinkman card.

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