(5-3) Tilts, 82 Friday Night Years Apart

In listening to part of the 1942 All-Star baseball game as broadcast by Mutual, with “The Commander,” Bob Elson, Mel Allen and Jim Britt, I realized a “history repeats” note had manifested.

Spurgeon “Spud” Chandler, one of the great Yankees’ pitchers, is Joe McCarthy’s choice to start the tilt, apparently on 2 days rest, but with a maximum 3 innings pitched allowed.

Broadcaster Elson, who 10 months before and 2 months before events at Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor, had been behind the microphone for the Yankees great game 4/1941 World Series win, that was the key to their 5 game triumph vs Leo Durocher’s Brooklyn Dodgers, informed that in a Friday night Yankees/Red Sox game on July 3, 1942, Chandler had emerged victorious by a (5-3) score.

Though I follow baseball nowhere near as I once did, somehow I knew that last Friday in another Red Sox/Yankees game, a (5-3) score manifested, this time in favor of the Red Sox.

From Wikipedia, more below. I add Spud Chandler, pictured above had a great career, spending all 11 of his seasons with the vaunted Yankees who won the title 6 times and did not only 5 times, as part of their great era of baseball that manifested in crowns in half their 40 seasons from 1923-1962.

He was named the American League‘s Most Valuable Player in 1943 after anchoring the team’s pitching staff with 20 wins and only 4 losses as New York won its third consecutive pennant; his 1.64 earned run average in that season was the lowest by any major league pitcher between 1920 and 1967, and remains a Yankees team record. In eleven seasons, he never suffered a losing record; with a total of 109 wins and 43 losses, his career winning percentage of .717 is the highest of any pitcher with at least 100 victories since 1876.