Thinking of Cleveland baseball on a cold, bitter and bitter cold day

It is bitter cold, Glenn Frey and David Bowie died, while flourishing Mike Francesa lied (see the Francesa altered the truth post).

So why not cheer myself with old baseball thoughts!

Notes from the process follow:

It started thinking about Al Luplow, who played for the New York Mets and Pittsburgh Pirates, but I remember best with the Cleveland Indians.

He once made an incredible catch robbing Red Sox player, and future Red Sox “Impossible Dream season” 1967 Red Sox pennant winning manager and Hall of Famer, Dick Williams of a home run.

Speaking of the Hall of Fame, I found and posted a link (below) to a fine read about this date in Cleveland baseball history, which is richly intertwined with the once great “Hall.”

Today in Tribe History: January 19, 1937

As I once found out the hard way driving a long way to sell what I thought was a fairly valuable Tom Seaver baseball card, the card with the Topps All Star rookie trophy superimposed (as with Al Luplow’s card pictured above) is not the rookie card, making it less valuable.