King Kaufman on Nostr: Hail and farewell, Vida Blue. I just found this in a box the other day and put in on ...
Hail and farewell, Vida Blue.
I just found this in a box the other day and put in on IG. Me applauding Vida at the end of an inning on Aug. 28, 1976. He took a no-hitter into the 9th inning but lost it when Mickey Stanley hit a home run with one out. He finished with a complete-game 1-hitter, a 5-2 win over the Detroit Tigers.
After the game he told reporters he wasn't sad about losing the no-hitter because he'd thrown one before. Paraphrasing from memory:
"There's only one thing I like doing over and over and we're all men here so we know what that is."
For much of his career, he wore the name Vida, not Blue, on the back of his jersey.
Years after this, I interviewed Vida, retired by then, for a story about off-field injuries. He said "I can't tell you why, but I'll just say there ought to be a clause in the basic contract that you can't make love more than three feet off the ground."
I just found this in a box the other day and put in on IG. Me applauding Vida at the end of an inning on Aug. 28, 1976. He took a no-hitter into the 9th inning but lost it when Mickey Stanley hit a home run with one out. He finished with a complete-game 1-hitter, a 5-2 win over the Detroit Tigers.
After the game he told reporters he wasn't sad about losing the no-hitter because he'd thrown one before. Paraphrasing from memory:
"There's only one thing I like doing over and over and we're all men here so we know what that is."
For much of his career, he wore the name Vida, not Blue, on the back of his jersey.
Years after this, I interviewed Vida, retired by then, for a story about off-field injuries. He said "I can't tell you why, but I'll just say there ought to be a clause in the basic contract that you can't make love more than three feet off the ground."