Long Ball City

Rest in peace, Davey Johnson.

Rest in peace, Ryne Sandberg. We enjoyed all 282 visits you made to our city. Tell
Harry & Zim hello for us.

We salute the life and career of one of our most frequent visitors, “The Cobra,” Dave Parker.

The Grenada, Miss., graced our streets 339 times over a 19-season career that overlapped three decades.

He played for the , , , , / , and .

He will be formally inducted into the next month, a fitting honor for one whose presence and .290 career batting average loomed so large over the game for so long.

We bid a fond farewell to “Mr. Baseball,” the one and only Bob Uecker, perhaps the best ambassador ever had in recent decades. We shall remain grateful for his 90 years on the planet, will miss him, and will fondly remember him, particularly when we see planes and rockets flying over our fair city.

We express our profound sadness over the loss of a baseball immortal, one Peter Edward Rose. Of his all-time record 4,256 career hits, 156 of them went far enough to earn a trip to our fair city. As with Shoeless Joe Jackson, we mourn the fact that he remains outside the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and that he will only see it posthumously, if ever. Although we could focus on the stain that creates for the legacies of all the hall’s enshrined members, we choose to focus on his rarely-rivaled greatness and the burning passion that fueled his success, inspiring many across three decades of professional baseball history. Rest in peace, Charlie Hustle, and salute your fellow immortals within the cornfield for us.

We salute one of ’s patron saints, perhaps baseball’s best all-around player ever, who made 660 legitimate voyages to our fair city. Only two statues stand taller in our town square. , we salute you for the class, dignity, and sparkle you brought to us. Fare thee well.

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