This Day In History April 12th

Grand Slam X2

          38 years ago today in 1980 Cecil Cooper and Don Money of the Milwaukee Brewers both hit grand slams in the 2nd inning of an 18-1 win over the Boston Red Sox. 

Cecil Cooper

          Cooper was 21 years old when he busted into the big leagues in September of 1971 for the Red Sox. He played 17 years in the majors as he spent the first 6 years of his career in Boston before joining the Brewers in 1977 to finish out his career. Cooper finished his career with 2,192 hits, .298 average, 241 Home Runs, and 1,125 RBIs. Cecil was also a 5x All-Star, 2x Gold Glove winner at first base, 3x Silver Slugger, Roberto Clemente award winner.

Don Money

          Don Money was only 20 years old when he broke into Major League Baseball. He played his first game for the Phillies in 1968 and played 16 seasons in the big leagues. His first 5 coming with the Phillies and his last 11 with the Brewers. Money finished his career with 1,623 hits, a .261, 176 Home Runs, and 729 RBIs. Don was also a 4x All-Star.

-ZW

Opening Day!

BASEBALL IS BACK!


This day should be a national holiday, as the best sport in the history of all sports, America's past time, and the most beautiful and simple yet so complex sport of baseball begins it's new season!

This was the first Opening Day since 1968 that all 30 MLB teams were scheduled to open up on the same day. Unfortunately,  weather is keeping that from happening with the Reds vs Nationals was postponed over 24 hours before game time.

So many off-season moves have been made, big name players making debuts in their new uniforms. So many questions to be answered, can the loaded Astros repeat? How can the Yankees 2018 version or murderers row be stopped? Who's going to be this year's breakout player? And so many more that we will not get an answer to until months later.

So strap yourself in for another season of rooting your team on through the inevitable up and down roller coaster ride that is the Major League Baseball season!

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-ZW