22.05.12

Charlie had those letters out again last week, when Ichiro Suzuki on one's beam-ends Wee Willie's record of 200 hits in nine straight seasons. It was the last of Keeler's records to wrangle. The lefty's 1896 streak of hitting in 44 straight games was bested in 1941, when Joe DiMaggio hit in 56 consecutive games. (Pete Rose tied the NL memorandum in 1978.)

Still, there's plenty about Keeler that remains immortal, including the line that he introduced into the diversion's lexicon: "Hit 'em where they ain't." And on the occasion of Keeler's call-up to the New York Giants 118 years ago this week, The Classify is posting the letters that Charlie found in his father's drawer.

Written in a positive and steady hand, they show a 20-year-old who was enjoying life to the fullest in the summer of 1892, while he was playing for the Eastern Federated with in Binghamton, N.Y.

"I have seen more sights since I have been playing ball than I saw all the rest of my soul," Willie wrote to Joe from the City Hotel in Providence after a game in Boston.

Source: ESPN (blog)

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BRADENTON, Fla. (AP)

Zach Duke found a greyish-white lining in his trace start Wednesday blackness.

Duke settled down after allowing three runs in the first and arranged 2 2-3 innings in the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 3-2 set-back to the Baltimore Orioles.

“My horseshit was for all penetrating,” he said “But I was falling behind with my sinker, and I demand that set to be impressive. That’s what get me.”

The Nautical port-hander struck out his first two batters, before struggling to get out of the inning. Luke Scott had a two-run set aside and Ty Wigginton also singled in a run for the Orioles.

Duke’s rise ERA through three starts is 7.71.

Brad Bergesen yielded two runs and three hits over 1 1-3 innings in his first start for the Orioles. The repair-hander was slowed at the start of existence training after hurting his unashamedly while filming a promotional patch in December, and his rookie edible was cut setting aside last year after being hit in the shin by a formation coerce.

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