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I was sorry to read in Aaron Goldstein’s blog that Bill “Moose” Skowron has gone to that great dugout in the sky. Another of my boyhood baseball cards has left us.
Skowron was a good hitter, traded by the Yankees to the Dodgers after the 1962 season. It must have been a great pleasure for the Moose when the Dodgers swept the Yankees in the 1963 World Series with Skowron hitting .385.
In the fifties there were two Major League Baseball players nicknamed Moose. Walt Dropo was called Moose because he was from Moosup, Connecticut. Skowron was called Moose because he looked like one. Then there’s the business of the boot camp buzz cut his grandfather gave him. Because of the look, people started calling him Mussolini, which, with the help of the facial resemblance, got shortened to Moose.
Dropo, also a power-hitting first baseman, died in 2010.
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tsmslf| 4.30.12 @ 1:11AM
I played with Moose as a teenager in the Summer of 1947; we were both 16. Then, the old New York Journal-American held an annual high school all-star game with kids from around the country. Moose's team had two future major league 1st basemen. The other was Harry Agganis who played for the Red Sox before dying at around 23 or 24. I also played with Agganis - the Golden Greek he was called - in the Marine Corps. As I look around, I know I'm in the 9th inning of this game of life but, so far, so good.
Jack in Wi.| 4.30.12 @ 7:37AM
Make that 3, Moose Moran of the Chicago Cubs.
RJ| 4.30.12 @ 2:02AM
I saw that Moose had a good World Series for the Dodgers in 1963, but his single year with them was his worst in the majors. Then again, the original Dodgers' stadium was a pitcher's park. No Dodger could hit many home runs until it was modified. Nonetheless, Moose only hit .206 that year. He found his stroke when he returned to the American league the next year. The story of so many Dodger trades for a hitter in the 1960s.
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Bill| 4.30.12 @ 10:39AM
Get those amigos out of the ballparks, and you'll see how thrilling the games turn out to be.We already have 20 million amigos, paying NO TAX.
David Gitlitz| 4.30.12 @ 10:48AM
I saw a quote from Moose where he said he hated beating the Yankees in that world series. In his heart, he said, he was always a Yankeee.
Crassus| 4.30.12 @ 11:25AM
Moose Skowron would kick Ron Paul's ass.
astorian| 4.30.12 @ 6:07PM
Moose Skowron was traded from the Yankees to make room for new first baseman Joe Pepitone.
Pepitone had his first "cup of coffee" with the Yankees in 1960, when 70 year old Casey Stengel was still the manager. Pepitone felt ready to take over the job even then, but Stegel told him "Sit next to me here o nthe bench and watch Skowron. I know you can hit, but you can learn a lot about fielding from the Moose."
Pepitone didn't really want to sit on the becnh watching Skowron, but he did. Moment later, he heard snoring, and realized Stengel was sound asleep!
Pepitone reluctantly watched Skowron, as he'd been told. Suddenly, he saw Skowron make a stellar play in the field, a play Pepitone knew he himself couldn't have made.
Without even opening his eyes, Stengel said, "Did you see what Mr. Skowron did there?"
Pepitone was both awed by Skowron's fielding skills (Joe realized then that he still had some work to do before becoming the Yankees' starter) and freaked out by Stengel's seeming clairvoyance!