Lenny Barker's Perfect Game

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May 13, 2011 7:16 AM
vs Toronto from May 15 1981. Just watched the replay some last night on STO. A few things I forgot about that game:

Toronto came in batting .217 as a team and finished the season hitting .226 as a team. They were bad.
Danny Ainge was their starting 3B.
Herb Score took you to the 7th inning stretch by saying, Upppppppppppppppppp on your feet for the 7th inning stretch.

Any old timers remember Rocco Scotti singing national anthems at Cleveland events back then?
May 13, 2011 7:16am
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May 13, 2011 7:36 AM
Remember Rocco Scotti well. Watched this game on TV as a 13 year old kid.

When Manning jumped after he caught that last out I thought the ball was going to pop out of his glove. In that same series I'm pretty sure Bert Blyleven came close to throwing a no hitter.
May 13, 2011 7:36am
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May 13, 2011 8:09 AM
Remember listening to this on and Rocco singing. Wow, it's been 30 years since that game. That is the last no hitter thrown by an Indians pitcher, and 2 have been thrown against them since then, Dave Stieb, Toronto in 1990 and Jim Abbott ( the one handed pitcher), Yankees in 1993.
May 13, 2011 8:09am
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May 13, 2011 8:14 AM
I am not going to be one of the 673,492 people who claimed to have been at the game that night. I was, however, at my friends house and we had just come into the house when his mom told us how the game was going. We turned on the radio to listen to the last inning and a half.
May 13, 2011 8:14am
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BR1986FB

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May 13, 2011 8:26 AM
I was fortunate enough to have experienced Barker's PG and Eckersley's no hitter as a kid (neither in person). Not many highlights in that era of Tribe baseball.
May 13, 2011 8:26am
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Con_Alma

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May 13, 2011 9:58 AM
I was at a party watching that game. I remember exactly where.

Didn't the Indians "politely not invite" Rocco Scotty to sing at the opening of Jacobs' Field?
May 13, 2011 9:58am
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May 13, 2011 10:18 AM
Watched the game on channel 43 with my dad. He stated after the game was over he had a chance to get free tickets for the game, but turned them down.

I almost saw a no-hitter in person, Tom Candiotti would have had one if Brett Butler would have dove for that ball in the 8th inning.
May 13, 2011 10:18am
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May 13, 2011 12:16 PM
Sonofanump;767363 wrote:Watched the game on channel 43 with my dad. He stated after the game was over he had a chance to get free tickets for the game, but turned them down.

I almost saw a no-hitter in person, Tom Candiotti would have had one if Brett Butler would have dove for that ball in the 8th inning.

I was very young, but I remember listening to that Candiotti game. As bad as they were....I loved listening when they had Candiotti, Swindell, Cory Snyder, Joe Carter etc.
May 13, 2011 12:16pm
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May 13, 2011 12:26 PM
Cory Snyder...smh...him and Brook Jacoby would swing at pitches Ray Charles would lay off of.
May 13, 2011 12:26pm
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May 13, 2011 12:34 PM
the play at second by Kuiper (7th inning maybe?) was unreal..and was that Bruce Drennan doing the play-by-play with Score? it sounded an awful lot like him
May 13, 2011 12:34pm
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May 13, 2011 12:40 PM
vball10set;767500 wrote:the play at second by Kuiper (7th inning maybe?) was unreal..and was that Bruce Drennan doing the play-by-play with Score? it sounded an awful lot like him

Drennan & Joe Tait worked for channel 43
May 13, 2011 12:40pm
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Con_Alma

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May 13, 2011 12:48 PM
Yep...tait was play-by -play and Drennan was color. "Ducks on the pond!!!!"

Tait was doing Indians games on TV because he was fired by Cavaliers owner Ted Stepian
May 13, 2011 12:48pm
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May 13, 2011 12:58 PM
Con_Alma;767511 wrote: Ted Stepian

S.M.H.
May 13, 2011 12:58pm
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May 13, 2011 1:02 PM
Sonofanump;767520 wrote:S.M.H.

+ infinity....dude was a clown. Pretty bad when they invent a rule in the NBA with your name and it's in a negative light.
May 13, 2011 1:02pm
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May 13, 2011 3:45 PM
Kinda off topic. I totally called someone's bluff couple weeks ago that said they were at Tom Browning's perfect game. Guy said what grade he as in and such, and I did a backtrack and it was impossible. Then the person he told I coaxed her about how perfect the weather was and he said he remembers how hot and sunny it was that day.

I had to laugh......

WHen I told the woman about that day...that it was in the fall, and a couple hour rain delay........and finally he fessed up.

Kinda like how many people who said they were at Wilt's 100 point game....
May 13, 2011 3:45pm
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May 13, 2011 4:20 PM
Remember the Indians right fielder that day? Jorge Orta.
May 13, 2011 4:20pm
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May 13, 2011 8:49 PM
september63;767696 wrote:Remember the Indians right fielder that day? Jorge Orta.

I remember a game, back in the day, when Orta went 6 for 6. I liked Orta.
May 13, 2011 8:49pm
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May 13, 2011 8:55 PM
I remember Cliff Johnson and his smoke breaks in the dugout between innings.
May 13, 2011 8:55pm
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May 13, 2011 9:08 PM
Con_Alma;767828 wrote:I remember Cliff Johnson and his smoke breaks in the dugout between innings.

Wasn't it Cliff who hand some issue with his knuckles or hands and kept letting the bat fly out of his hands at infielders, into the stands and dugout? Dumbass Ron Hassey also went on the DL for burning his eye with a cigarette ash while smoking in the dugout.
May 13, 2011 9:08pm
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May 13, 2011 9:13 PM
BR1986FB;767835 wrote:Wasn't it Cliff who hand some issue with his knuckles or hands and kept letting the bat fly out of his hands at infielders, into the stands and dugout?...
that does sound familier.

Anyone remember the antics of John Lowenstien? I still laugh when I think of that guy.
May 13, 2011 9:13pm
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May 13, 2011 9:24 PM
Lowenstein was my first Tribe baseball card.
May 13, 2011 9:24pm