{"id":2491,"date":"2015-10-29T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2015-10-29T06:53:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T11:53:19","slug":"tbt-with-baseballs-greatest-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=2491","title":{"rendered":"#TBT With Baseball&#8217;s Greatest Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Gibby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2489\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Gibby-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"Gibby\" width=\"255\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Gibby.jpg 300w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Gibby-150x136.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>By Bob Berry<\/p>\n<p>I would like to dedicate this blog\u00a0to my old friend #23, Waterford&#8217;s Kirk Gibson.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=934kHMpmsto\">caught home runs at MSU<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/detroittigersnark.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/catfight-1984-tigers-vs-2013-tigers.html\">stirred the drink<\/a><\/strong> for our Detroit\u00a0Tigers, and\u00a0has hit one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisgreatgame.com\/baseball-lists-most-memorable-home-runs.html\"><strong>greatest home runs<\/strong> <\/a>in World Series history, <em>TWICE<\/em>! The one you always hear about from for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/video\/topic\/6479266\/v3364800\/bb-moments-88-ws-gm-1-hobbled-gibsons-pinch-hr\">Dodgers in 1988<\/a><\/strong>. And\u00a0the<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dmukTdo-WuY\"> upper deck shot off Goose Gossage<\/a><\/strong> at old Tiger Stadium in the &#8217;84 Fall Classic.<\/p>\n<p>These days, as you may know, Kirk is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/tigers\/2015\/07\/02\/kirk-gibson-in-attack-mode-against-parkinsons\/29633187\/\">battling Parkinson&#8217;s Disease<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0For my money, someone should have told Mr. P\u00a0to pick a different fight.<\/p>\n<p>Go Get &#8216;Em, Gibby, we are all behind you!<\/p>\n<p>So its World Series time.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kansascity.royals.mlb.com\/index.jsp?c_id=kc\">Kansas CityRoyals<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.mets.mlb.com\/index.jsp?c_id=nym\">New York Mets<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>Passionate fans hoping their team has a Gibson moment,\u00a0Mets down 2 games to none, heading to New York for the weekend.\u00a0Here&#8217;s our short take on three of baseball&#8217;s greatest hits, beginning with this <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/kate-kelly\/gamble-and-huff-music-pro_b_7101664.html\">Sound of Philadelphia<\/a><\/strong> from 1968.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LOVE IS LIKE A BASEBALL GAME   THE INTRUDERS\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U7J69dPI62o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Next up, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rockhall.com\/inductees\/alphabetical\/\">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> John Fogerty with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, doing John&#8217;s\u00a0baseball classic from spring of 1985.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wXhEqCPSq7k\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wXhEqCPSq7k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally, could it have been anything else, our Number One <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/news\/article\/1718667\/\">Baseball Classic<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0Just wait til next year!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Go Get &#039;Em Tigers\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UFkzh1xQ0gE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bob Berry I would like to dedicate this blog\u00a0to my old friend #23, Waterford&#8217;s Kirk Gibson. He\u00a0caught home runs at MSU, stirred the drink for our Detroit\u00a0Tigers, and\u00a0has hit one of the greatest home runs in World Series history, TWICE! The one you always hear about from for the Dodgers in 1988. And\u00a0the upper deck shot off Goose Gossage at old Tiger Stadium in the &#8217;84 Fall Classic. These days, as you may know, Kirk is battling Parkinson&#8217;s Disease.\u00a0For my money, someone should have told Mr. P\u00a0to pick a different fight. Go Get &#8216;Em, Gibby, we are all behind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,2],"tags":[641,10,643,640,642,639,638],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-berry","category-keener","tag-baseballs-greatest-world-series-homers","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-gibson-la-dodgers","tag-great-baseball-songs","tag-kirk-gibson","tag-royals-and-mets","tag-the-world-series","wpcat-160-id","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}