{"id":29909,"date":"2022-07-27T08:03:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T12:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=29909"},"modified":"2023-01-05T16:50:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T21:50:24","slug":"what-are-the-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/27\/what-are-the-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT ARE THE ODDS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I\u2019ve been<\/strong><\/span> to approximately 60 Cleveland Indians games and seen three no-hitters. What are the odds on that? Call the <em>Freakonomics<\/em> guy.<\/p>\n<p>I am a fair-weather fan! For two of the three no-hitters, I didn\u2019t even know who the players were. Like now, I can\u2019t name any of the Guardians players.<\/p>\n<p>I saw Toronto\u2019s Dave Stieb no-hit the Tribe in 1990. I didn\u2019t know any of the Cleveland players then. I saw Cleveland\u2019s Dick Bosman throw a no-hitter in 1974; again, I didn\u2019t know any of the Cleveland players except Buddy Bell, who I recognized as Gus Bell\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p>1966 &#8212; my first no-hitter. Sonny Siebert, 2-0, against the Senators. I knew the players. I was in high school: Azcue, Alvis, Davalillo, Wagner, Colavito.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29912\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29912\" class=\"wp-image-29912 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/francona-1960-topps-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"francona 1960 topps\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francona batted .363 in 1959 but was 34 at-bats shy of the minimum needed, so the batting title went to Harvey Kuenn.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I used<\/strong><\/span> to get free tickets to the games in high school for straight A\u2019s. I didn\u2019t get straight A\u2019s but the <em>Cleveland Press<\/em> (which gave out the free tix) didn\u2019t care about a B or two, as long as if you provided a written explanation. \u201cThis class is AP,\u201d etc.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I&#8217;m uneasy with the fine-print mention of &#8220;Harvey Kuenn&#8221; in the photo caption above. April 19, 1960. What a dark day. Frankie\u00a0 Lane unloaded The Rock for Kuenn. That was the day I learned life isn&#8217;t fair. Still adjusting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been to approximately 60 Cleveland Indians games and seen three no-hitters. What are the odds on that? Call the Freakonomics guy. I am a fair-weather fan! For two of the three no-hitters, I didn\u2019t even know who the players were. Like now, I can\u2019t name any of the Guardians players. I saw Toronto\u2019s Dave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-pages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29909"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29923,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29909\/revisions\/29923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}