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The Spectacle Blog
I got a kick out of these photos of Ron Paul wearing a Houston Astros uniform during the 1976 Congressional softball game between Republicans and Democrats at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. By the looks of it, Paul can handle himself at the plate.
Unlike a lot of other people, I always loved the old Astros uniforms of the 1970s and early 1980s with the orange hats and rainbow colors. It looked like candy to me.
Paul, who would have been 41 at the time, bares a passing resemblance to then Astros infielder Art Howe. Of course, these days Howe is best known for being portrayed by Philip Seymour Hoffman as the curmudgeonly, old school manager of the Oakland Athletics in Moneyball which is quite unfair given that Howe went along with Billy Beane Ball.
Still, when I think of Art Howe, I think of the Astros and the 1980 team which Bill Virdon guided to its first NL West pennant with a starting rotation of Nolan Ryan, Joe Niekro, Ken Forsch, J.R. Richard (who was felled by a stroke that summer following the All-Star Game), Vern Ruhle with Joe Sambito, Joaquin Andujar and Dave Smith in the bullpen. And lest I forget Joe Morgan (returning after a decade with the Cincinnati Reds), Cesar Cedeno, Enos Cabell, Jose Cruz (with his crazy batting stance) and Saskatchewan’s own Terry Puhl.
Given how bad the Astros were last year, the least they could do is extend Paul an invite to spring training. I must admit Paul is pretty spry at 76. In any case, his time in Florida would probably be better spent fielding groundballs than dropping votes.
NadePaulKuciGravMcKi| 1.23.12 @ 1:00PM
We are glad you smiled Aaron. Honest.
Jack| 1.23.12 @ 2:40PM
Ron Paul is the only congressman to hit a home run in a major league park, during the the Congessional baseball game. He also gets 18% of the vote if he runs as an independent against Romney and Obama, in a poll released today. Romney would get 32%. If Newt is the nominee expect him to get double that and be breathing down Obama's neck.
Oldefarte| 1.23.12 @ 4:02PM
Wait, didn't he also score three touchdowns in the 1958 NFC championship game also??????
spike59| 1.23.12 @ 4:46PM
and scored a hat trick against the Boston Bruins on THE SAME DAY...and on his way back home, stopped off at MSG and knocked out Floyd Patterson in the 3rd round...and when his car broke down on the way to the airport, he ran a record time for the marathon in order to LITERALLY catch his plane!
Believe It| 1.23.12 @ 1:11PM
http://www.ripleys.com/weird/f.....-6-11.jpeg
spike59| 1.23.12 @ 1:50PM
wow, 3 ronpaul stories on one page!
Believe It| 1.23.12 @ 2:14PM
The part of that picture I like best is Ron Paul using a baseball bat to kill those giant mutant ants. Newt and Mitt may talk big about killing giant mutant ants, if you can get them to even admit that the problem exists, but Ron Paul is the only one to actually pick up a bat and kick some exoskeleton.
spike59| 1.23.12 @ 4:41PM
okay, IF you can get me VIDEO of him killing the giant mutant ants, he's got my vote...
Clint| 1.23.12 @ 6:14PM
Dr. Ron Paul was a Superior Athlete.
" Excelling in track and field, he graduated from Dormont High School in 1953 with honors. He had a best mark in the 100-yard dash of 9.7 seconds at a time when the national high school record for that event was 9.4 seconds; He was the 220-yard dash state champion, and was also on the wrestling team, played football and baseball, and was student council president.
Although he had knee surjery, a major university offered Paul a prestigious full scholarship in track, chancing he could regain his prior speed; he declined, refusing to endorse the risk. Rather, he paid for his first year at Gettysburg College with saved newspaper-delivery, lemonade-sale, and lawn-mowing money; he later received a small academic scholarship. He delivered mail and laundry in Gettysburg; managed the college coffee shop ("The Bullet Hole"); and joined the swim team. By his senior year, he was running track again; he set the third-best marks in college history in the 100-yard dash (9.9 seconds) and 220-yard dash."
Ron Paul,
Dr.Ron Paul,
" I’ve offered to ride a bicycle for 20 miles in Houston when the temperature is 100° and the humidity is 100% and I will go 20 miles with them and then we’ll decide who’s the youngest."
Dr. Ron Paul Would Have The Pillsbury DoughBoy, Mr.Neutered Suckin' O's At 10 Miles.
Occam's Tool| 1.23.12 @ 6:41PM
Which has nothing to do with being President. Bush Jr. played varsity baseball at Yale, Gerald Ford was varsity on the Michigan football team, and the smartest major league baseball catcher of all time could hit .243 in 7 languages--- "B.A., Princeton, magna cum laude in modern languages. He had studied seven languages: Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Sanskrit. (Wiki)" Just to piss Clint off, the catcher was Jewish and a superpatriot that had more influence on the war than Clint's dad. Moe Berg, bubula.
But this has nothing to do with being POTUS. The most significant President of the 1st 50 years of the 20th Century was in a wheelchair.
Occam's Tool| 1.23.12 @ 6:48PM
Berg, of course, filmed Toyko with a camera while palying baseball with an American all star team in Tokyo (he also addressed the Diet in Japanese) and was later called upon by the OSS to determine if Heisenberg was close to an atomic bomb by going to a Swiss lecture. He had orders to kill Heisenberg, if necessary.
For these somewhat Bondsian exploits, he was awarded the highest Civilian award for courage: The Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Clint| 1.23.12 @ 7:01PM
Interesting, That Israel Firster Traitor Bastard Neo-Chickenhawk Coward, Tool Job Attempts To Badmouth My Combat Officer Dad, who led his American Troopers From The Front in Normandy, into Paris, at The Battle of The Bulge, into Germany & to The Link Up with The Russkies in Czechoslovakia and wore The Bronze Star, The Silver Star, The Fourragere, The Croix de Guerre from France, The Presidential Unit Citation.
You're A Little, Short Fat Agin' Israel Firster Coward, Tool Job.
1-2 Punch| 1.23.12 @ 6:42PM
The one half of the RINO-CINO funky stooges,when theyr'e not playing smear bunz. I'm sure Ron Paul would have you suckin' real quick and it wouldn't be O's!
Clint| 1.23.12 @ 7:04PM
We Hear Punchy & Tool Job Eat Bibi's Bone.
The Tea Party Rebellion Steps On The Israel Firster Smear Bund Ass Clowns.
Occam's Tool| 1.23.12 @ 6:52PM
That goes along with his other famous conspiracy theories....
Clint| 1.23.12 @ 7:07PM
Bibi's Bone Goes Along With The Israel Firster Crap Sandwiches.
The Tea Party Rebellion Steps On The Short, Fat, Aging Israel Firster Neo-Chickenhawk, Tool Job.
Bob Grant| 1.23.12 @ 2:06PM
Those seventies uniforms were quintessential 70's; the colors, the motif, ...
My family's living room had shag carpeting in one of those color oranges and I do recall a couch or chair of that color as well.
70's motto: Style? We don't need no stinkin' style.
Bob Grant| 1.23.12 @ 2:07PM
correction: Those Astro's uniforms were quintessential...
Al Adab| 1.23.12 @ 2:34PM
Two weeks to Superbowl, then we can concentrate on the actual Game which reflects America at her best: Baseball.
spike59| 1.23.12 @ 4:43PM
baseball?????? you and george will are about the only people in america deluded into thinking baseball actually matters....
Oldefarte| 1.23.12 @ 4:05PM
Frankly, I prefer the picture of Michael Dikaukas with an army helmet atop his head while inside of the military tank's hatch-opening myself!!!!
spike59| 1.23.12 @ 4:42PM
'he looked like something from a "Peanuts" strip...