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November 10
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Stormin’ Norman: The Overlooked Season of Norm Cash
Norm Cash would have turned 92 tomorrow. Born November 10, 1934, in Justiceburg, Texas, he was a country boy who loved a good time and could flat out hit. The Chicago Bears drafted him in the 13th round, but he picked baseball and signed with the White Sox.
Cash played 58 games for the pennant-winning 1959 White Sox and went 0-for-4 in the World Series against the Dodgers. That winter Chicago sent him to Cleveland in the Minnie Minoso deal. Just before the 1960 season, the Indians traded him to Detroit straight up for Steve Demeter, who got five more big league at-bats. Cash hit 373 home runs for the Tigers. It’s one of the most lopsided trades in baseball history.
In 1961 Cash had one of the great seasons of the decade, and hardly anybody noticed because Roger Maris was chasing Babe Ruth. Cash led the AL with a .361 average, 37 points ahead of his teammate and roommate Al Kaline. He also led the league with 193 hits and a .487 on-base percentage, and added 41 homers, 132 RBI and 119 runs. He finished fourth in the MVP voting. Years later he admitted he’d been using corked bats, and he even showed people how he drilled them out and packed them with cork, sawdust and glue.
He never hit .300 again. His drop to .243 in 1962 is still the biggest fall ever for a batting champ. But Cash stayed one of the best first basemen in baseball. He hit 20 or more homers 11 times, including nine straight years, and won Comeback Player of the Year in 1965 and 1971. He walked over 1,000 times and was a sure-handed fielder at first base.
October is where Stormin’ Norman really delivered. In the 1968 World Series against the Cardinals he hit .385 with 10 hits and homered in Game 2. In Game 6 he had two hits in the same inning as Detroit put up 10 runs in the third. In Game 7 against Bob Gibson the game was scoreless with two outs in the seventh when Cash singled to start the rally. He scored the first run on Jim Northrup’s triple, the ball Curt Flood misjudged in center, and the Tigers won the title. In the 1972 ALCS he homered in Game 1, then drew a bases-loaded walk in the 10th inning of Game 4 to tie it as the Tigers came back to force a fifth game.
Cash was also one of the funniest guys in the game. On July 15, 1973, with Nolan Ryan one out from a no-hitter, Cash walked to the plate carrying a table leg. The umpire made him go get a real bat, and Ryan got him anyway.
He retired in 1974 with 377 home runs. He got just 1.6% of the vote on his only Hall of Fame ballot in 1980. Cash drowned off Beaver Island, Michigan, on October 12, 1986, after slipping on a boat and hitting his head. He was 51.
Happy birthday, Norm.
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Hear Stormin’ Norman for yourself
You can read about 1961 and 1968 all day, but nothing beats hearing it live the way fans did back then. We have 63 broadcasts featuring Norm Cash in the Classic Baseball Broadcasts library. That includes several games from his monster 1961 batting title season and the 1968 World Series against Gibson and the Cardinals. You get the original calls, the crowd, and the old commercials, like sitting on the porch with the transistor radio.
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Todays Trivia . . .
Which former teammate of Eddie Mathews, Tom Seaver and Ozzie Smith was the last non-knuckle baller to pitch more than 375 innings in a season in the Live Ball Era (since 1920)?
Hint: #1 He retired with the most career strikeouts of any American League left-handed pitcher.
Hint: #2 He selected a highly propitious occasion for his first career home run.
Hint: #3 A local record label commissioned a 45 rpm record to commemorate his heroics.
Hint: #4 He was once one half of the most prolific starting battery in history.
Hint: #5 Blink and you’ll miss his Hollywood debut.
Hint: #6 He pitched in what the most heavily-attended Opening Day game in American League history.
Hint: #7 Riding a motorcycle to the stadium every day was not his only relationship with that particular mode of transportation.
Hint: #8 He was right-handed in all aspects of his life, eating, writing, etc., except for pitching.
Hint: #9 He famously opened and operated a successful donut shop after he left the game.
Hint: #10 He served in the Air National Guard during the1967 Detroit riots.
Hint: #11 He is one of an amazing set of seven major league players who remained teammates for eleven consecutive seasons.
Quote of the day:
“Whenever you mention Norm Cash, I just smile. He was just a fun guy to be around and a great teammate. He always came ready to play." - Al Kaline
Game of The Day:
Game of the Day — September 3, 1961 Detroit Tigers at New York Yankees
Cash has a day . . . Listen to Phil Rizzuto, Red Barber, Mel Allen
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November 10 highlights and Historic Days!
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This day in baseball has a deeper dive into every event from November 10
November 10, 1948, the Chicago White Sox acquired pitcher Billy Pierce from the Detroit Tigers for All-Star catcher Aaron Robinson. Tigers even sweetened the deal with $10,000. The move will give them a pitching ace for the next decade. Pierce, who sported an ERA of 6.34 in 1948, will win 186 games for the White Sox over the next 13 years. Robinson will last fewer than three seasons in Detroit.
November 10, 1950 — Amid much public protest, the Indians fire their popular player-manager Lou Boudreau, who had spent 12 years with the Tribe, including the last nine as the team's skipper. The surprised Harvey, Illinois native, after compiling a modest .529 winning percentage (728-649), his best showing since 97 victories in the 1948 World Series. He will be replaced by minor league manager and future Hall of Famer Al Lopez. They give Lopez a two-year contract, and Lopez will guide the Tribe to at least 90 wins in each of his first five seasons and will finish either first or second in all six of his seasons with Cleveland.
November 10, 1965 -San Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays, who hit .312 with 52 home runs and 112 RBI, is named National League MVP. Mays received 224 votes to 177 for Sandy Koufax, who, pitching for the Dodgers, had a 2.04 ERA, won 26 games, allowed just 5.79 hits per nine innings, and struck out 382 batters. Koufax, however, won the higher-profile Game 7 of the 1965 World Series.
November 10, 1964 — The Atlanta Braves sign a twenty-five-year lease to play in the newly constructed Atlanta Stadium and will continue to play there until the team moves next door to Turner Field in 1997. The ballpark, which officially became known as Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium in 1975, will affectionately be called the ‘Launching Pad,’ reflecting the ease with which home runs were hit there due to being located 1,000 feet above sea level on the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
November 10, 1971 — Oakland Athletics pitcher Vida Blue adds the American League MVP to his list of awards for 1971, easily outpointing teammate Sal Bando, 268-182.
November 10, 1997 — Roger Clemens becomes the first American League pitcher to win the Cy Young Award four times. Clemens, the first pitcher since Hal Newhouser in 1945 to win the pitching Triple Crown in the American League, led the league in wins (21), strikeouts (292) and ERA (2.05) in his first season with the Toronto Blue Jays. Clemens won his first three Cy Young Awards with the Boston Red Sox in 1986, 1987 and 1991.
November 10, 2008 — Evan Longoria (.272, 27, 85), the unanimous choice of the BBWAA, wins the American League Rookie of the Year award. The Rays’ slugging third baseman becomes the first player in franchise history to win a major postseason award.
Milestones November 10
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Prince Hal: Remembering Hal Newhouser
Hal Newhouser died 28 years ago tomorrow, on November 10, 1998. He was a Detroit kid who signed with his hometown Tigers for $400. The story goes that minutes later, Cleveland scout Cy Slapnicka showed up offering $15,000 and a new car. He was too late.
Newhouser had the stuff early but not the temper to go with it. He had a losing record through 1943 and blew up at teammates when things went wrong. Then he got control of himself and his overhand curve, and from 1944 to 1946 he went 80-27. He won back-to-back MVPs in 1944 and 1945, and he’s still the only pitcher ever to do that. In 1945 he won the pitching Triple Crown with 25 wins, a 1.81 ERA and 212 strikeouts.
Critics said he did it against wartime lineups, since a heart condition kept him out of the service. So in 1946, with the stars back from the war, he won 26 games and finished second to Ted Williams for MVP. The Yankees offered Joe DiMaggio for him in 1947 and Detroit said no.
In the 1945 World Series against the Cubs he got knocked out early in Game 1, then came back to throw complete-game wins in Game 5 and Game 7. On the last day of 1948 he beat Bob Feller on one day’s rest to force Cleveland into a playoff. He finished with 207 wins and helped the 111-win 1954 Indians out of the bullpen. The Veterans Committee put him in the Hall of Fame in 1992.
Hear Prince Hal for yourself
We have 12 Hal Newhouser games, 3 interviews, and every game of the 1945 World Series in the Classic Baseball Broadcasts library. You can hear the Game 7 clincher the way Detroit heard it on the radio in 1945, then listen to Hal tell the stories himself.
Birthdays:
Notable: Gene Conley
Passings:
Notable: Hal Newhouser
New From Around the League!
ANSWER TO TODAY’S TRIVIA
TRIVIA ANSWER: MICKEY LOLICH
- Ans. Lolich pitched 376.0 innings in 1971. He was a teammate to Mathews in 1967 & 1968 w/DET;. Ozzie Smith was with him in San Diego in 1978 & 1979; & he and Seaver were together on the staff of the 1976 NYM.
- #1 Until surpassed by CC Sabathia in 2019, Lolich’s total of 2,679 Ks was the most-ever by an AL southpaw.
- #2 In the 3rd inning of game 2 of the 1968 World Series, Lolich provided the only extra run he’d need in the game by connecting with a high fastball from STL’s Nelson Briles for his first, last & only home run of his entire 16-year major league career in his CG 8-1 victory.
- #3 The politically-incorrectly-titled song was “Roly Poly Mickey Lolich”. It was produced by Marquee Records and actually reached #20 on the Detroit charts in the fall of 1968. You can listen here.
- #4 Lolich & catcher Bill Freehan started as batterymates 324 times between 1963 and 1975. Their record was edged by Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina in 2022.
- #5 Cast as Security Guard #1, Lolich screams his single line of, “Who the hell are you?” in the 1977 sci-fi horror film "The Incredible Melting Man". Watch Mickey's two-second total screen time starting at the 0:02 mark of this 8-second clip.
- #6 Pitching in front of an AL Opening Day record 74,420 fans on 07-April-1973, Lolich’s Tigers fell to Gaylord Perry and his Cleveland club, 2-1.
- #7 As a toddler, he one day tipped a motorcycle over onto himself and his left arm and shoulder were severely injured. He wore a cast on his left arm all that summer. When the cast came off he performed exercises to strengthen the torn muscles & emerged a southpaw.
- #8 Was that a blessing? His career record seems to say yes.
- #9 Read more about Lolich the baker & his pastry success here. Go to the paragraph titled “Life After Baseball”. It was more than just donuts.
- #10 Many Tigers were involved in helping to calm an angry populace that summer.
- #11 Lolich’s enduring teammates from 1964 through 1974 include Gates Brown, Norm Cash, Bill Freehan, Willie Horton, Al Kaline, Jim Northrup & Mickey Stanley.
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