10.15.2008 2:13 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
TOWER GROVE — I watched Bob Costas’ interview with Willie Mays and Hank Aaron the other day, and while the whole of the interview is brilliant there was a line from it I couldn’t shake. Costas said if there were a Mt. Rushmore for baseball — and why isn’t there, already? — Mays and Aaron would both be on it. Presumably Babe Ruth would be riding shotgun.
That leaves a fourth, the Teddy Roosevelt spot.
Does Teddy…
04.24.2008 1:07 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
PITTSBURGH — Called High-A Palm Beach’s manager Gaylen Pitts the other day for another assignment and after running through a list of specific players in his lineup I asked who else has stood out.
“Tyler Henley,” he said. “Leadoff guy. He’s been a bit of everything for us.”
Fast forward to Wednesday morning and I’m checking out the box score of the Palm Beach Cardinals and sure enough, there was Henley, doing a big bit of one thing — against a major-league pitcher,…