Word: matlack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most widespread phenomenons in baseball is that of "changing faces" throughout the league. Many recall how New York Mets' General Manager M. Donald Grant traded away the likes of Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, John Matlack, Rusty Staub, and Dave Kingman--all within a year. Then again, they remember how quickly the same Mets acquired such superstars as Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter, Ron Darling and Sid Fernandez in just as little time. It has been only six years since the Montreal Expos appeared in the split-season playoffs with one of the most promising teams in the majors. And yet, only...
Grass hasn't yet returned to the pitcher's mound where Jon Matlack once tossed a one-hitter or to the home plate area from where Fred Stanley once hit three grand slams in one game...
When an airplane carrying relief supplies to Nicaraguan earthquake victims crashed on the last day of 1972, one of those killed was Pittsburgh Pirates' star rightfielder Roberto Clemente. That season, the baseball world honored Clemente--who had ended the previous season with a double off the Mets' Jon Matlack to collect his 3000th career hit--by renaming an award in his honor, having his former teammates wear his old number 21 on their sleeves, and inducting him into the Hall of Fame in an unprecedented special election...