I’m the one supposed to make readers smile. Your response is very funny. As an aside, Marshall was once arrested because he moved across the street from his wife after the divorce and threw stuff at her house. I think they were screwballs. And he never took a day off.
Mike Marshall, as we dinosaurs know, is no model for today's pitchers, unless perhaps they too have a PhD in kinesiology, as did Iron Mike. Marshall was a unicorn (in more ways than one). At 29, he threw 208.1 innings as a reliever. At 36, he logged 142.2 innings in relief with a 2.42 ERA. He had that doctorate and a dogged commitment to the science-based pitching delivery he personally designed to stay injury-free.
Modern pitching coaches reject Dr. Marshall's thesis, he insisted. ““There’s not one of them who knows anything of science,” he once said. “They think Sir Isaac Newton invented the Fig Newton.”
Then there’s this, from a 2021 interview:
Q: You pitched 18 more years after you retired from pro baseball until you were approximately 56 years old. Did you experience any arm issues then?
A: If I had not tried to catch a falling free-standing closet, I would have pitched for more years. Unfortunately, I tore my Supraspinatus.
When I first read that, I thought it said Mike tried to catch a “free-falling closet,” which brought to mind those old Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton movies. As far as I know, Charlie and Buster emerged with their Supraspinati intact. Still, a good life lesson for those of us inclined to throw away that doohickey manufacturers include to attach furniture items to the wall so they don’t fall.
But I digress, which is what I often do these days. What I started to say up there at the beginning was that yes, you definitely sound like a dinosaur but you do have a lot of good stories, some of which are printable, and I look forward to more.
And I’d love for you to hook me up with one of those fancy experts who can make a body “happy, healthy and wise,” as you so eloquently put it. At my age, I‘d definitely line up to get a wise body. No doubt it would keep me safe from falling closets, among other things.
I’m the one supposed to make readers smile. Your response is very funny. As an aside, Marshall was once arrested because he moved across the street from his wife after the divorce and threw stuff at her house. I think they were screwballs. And he never took a day off.
Dear Griff:
Mike Marshall, as we dinosaurs know, is no model for today's pitchers, unless perhaps they too have a PhD in kinesiology, as did Iron Mike. Marshall was a unicorn (in more ways than one). At 29, he threw 208.1 innings as a reliever. At 36, he logged 142.2 innings in relief with a 2.42 ERA. He had that doctorate and a dogged commitment to the science-based pitching delivery he personally designed to stay injury-free.
Modern pitching coaches reject Dr. Marshall's thesis, he insisted. ““There’s not one of them who knows anything of science,” he once said. “They think Sir Isaac Newton invented the Fig Newton.”
Then there’s this, from a 2021 interview:
Q: You pitched 18 more years after you retired from pro baseball until you were approximately 56 years old. Did you experience any arm issues then?
A: If I had not tried to catch a falling free-standing closet, I would have pitched for more years. Unfortunately, I tore my Supraspinatus.
When I first read that, I thought it said Mike tried to catch a “free-falling closet,” which brought to mind those old Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton movies. As far as I know, Charlie and Buster emerged with their Supraspinati intact. Still, a good life lesson for those of us inclined to throw away that doohickey manufacturers include to attach furniture items to the wall so they don’t fall.
But I digress, which is what I often do these days. What I started to say up there at the beginning was that yes, you definitely sound like a dinosaur but you do have a lot of good stories, some of which are printable, and I look forward to more.
And I’d love for you to hook me up with one of those fancy experts who can make a body “happy, healthy and wise,” as you so eloquently put it. At my age, I‘d definitely line up to get a wise body. No doubt it would keep me safe from falling closets, among other things.
Your obedient servant,, etc.,etc.