Happy # 84 Ron Hunt

We remember Ronald Kenneth Hunt who was born in St. Louis on this day in 1941.

Ron Hunt broke in with the Mets in 1963.  He hit .272 with 10 HR and was # 2 in the Rookie of the Year vote behind Pete Rose.  He also hit .303 in 1965 and .288 in 1966.  However, nobody remembers him for that or his .273 average or 1,479 hits over 12 seasons.  

We remember Ron Hunt because he got hit by a pitch 243 times.   in 1971, he got hit 50 times with Montreal.    The next two guys on that list are Don Baylor (35) and Craig Biggio (34).

As a consequence, Hunt retired with a .368 on-base-pct.   

How did he do it?   I don't know but he was very effective when you really needed a runner on base.

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We remember Joe Rosenthal (1911-2006)

Is there a better war photo than this?

Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died in 2006. He was 94.     

On February 23, 1945, Joe was 33 and took this famous photo of five battle-weary Marines and a Navy corpsman struggling to raise a flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.

Iwo Jima was intense:  a 36-day battle that left 6,621 American dead and 19,217 wounded. 

Great photo!

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1861: President elect Lincoln arrived in Washington DC

The United States was an angry country when President-elect Lincoln took a train from Illinois to Washington DC to assume the presidency.   

There were threats of secession and war.   It was not a happy time.

On this day in 1861, President elect Lincoln arrived in Washington DC rather than Baltimore.    He was warned about an assassination attempt in Baltimore and reluctantly changed plans.

Two weeks later, he became the 16th president of the US.    

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World War II : Rommel, the Desert Fox with Barry Jacobsens

Guest: Barry Jacobsen, military historian and blogger........we will remember Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel, known as the Desert Fox............and more stories...

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