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He Replaced Mickey Mantle. Now Baseball’s Oldest Living Major Leaguer, Art Schallock, Is Turning 100

— By Janie McCauley | April 25, 2024

Art Schallock poses for a photo in Sonoma, Calif., on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Schallock, the oldest living former Major League Baseball player, will celebrate his 100th birthday on Thursday, April 25, 2024. (Wendy Cornejo, Cogir on Napa Road via AP)

San Francisco (AP) — Whether at home or on the road, Art Schallock would begin each day by taking the elevator down to the lobby and collecting the latest comic books for roommate Yogi Berra.

“Every morning,” Schallock recalled, chuckling at the thought decades later.

Schallock never minded. It was all worth it.

Just part of being the new guy back in the day, a rite of passage for the latest big leaguer getting promoted. Schallock got the call in 1951, replacing future Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle when the New York Yankees optioned the then-19-year-old to Triple-A. Schallock, then 27, roomed with Berra and was tasked with picking up Berra’s daily delivery of “funnies” as they called them.

The oldest living former major leaguer, Schallock turns 100 on Thursday and is being celebrated in the Bay Area and beyond as the milestone approaches.

The baseball memories are still plenty fresh.

“That was quite a thrill, quite a thrill playing with those guys,” Schallock shared in a video call. “I roomed with Yogi Berra when I got up there and he knew all the hitters. We went over all the hitters on each team. Besides that, I had to run down to the lobby and get his funny books. Every morning. Yogi knew all the hitters, how to pitch to them, whether it’s low, high or whatever, he knew how to pitch to them. And I had to learn from him.”

The Bay Area native went to Tamalpais High in Mill Valley then College of Marin before becoming the 10,823rd major league player when he debuted on July 16, 1951. He pitched 2 2/3 innings for the Yankees that day at Detroit, then earned his first career win exactly one month later at Washington.

The left-hander won three World Series rings from 1951-53, although he only pitched in the ‘53 Series, retiring Brooklyn’s Jackie Robinson during a two-inning outing in Game 4. He went 6-7 with a 4.02 ERA over five seasons in 58 games and 14 starts with the Yankees and Orioles.

He still wears one of those World Series rings regularly on his pitching hand.

“Here’s a game that I loved, I really enjoyed it and loved the game of baseball and they pay you for it. What more can you ask for?” Schallock said. “I wish I was playing today and getting the salaries that they get, but that’s the way it goes.”

Schallock shakes his head and smiles about the money. He signed with the Dodgers for $5,000, and if he lasted past June 1 he received another $5,000 payment.

“When I got out of the service, I went to junior college for a couple of years and pitched baseball there and then I pitched semi-pro in San Francisco and made a name for myself and Brooklyn signed me,” he shared.

Schallock still has some years to go to set any kind of age records. Negro Leagues pitcher Si Simmons of the 1926 New York Lincoln Giants lived to 111, while another ex-Yankees pitcher, Red Hoff, reached 107.

Though Schallock has a hard time hearing these days, he relishes every chance to chat about baseball. And he offers no real secrets to his longevity — no strict exercise regimen or special diet.

“Stop having a drink, have two,” he said, laughing. “That’s all I was allowed to drink before dinner, that was it, my wife cut me off. Vodka over the rocks with a little splash of water, vodka and water and a little ice. Only two. I also had a few beers.

"(Yankees manager) Casey Stengel always had beer in the clubhouse after the game. He’d rather see you drink in the clubhouse rather than some bar. ‘Cuz two or three of you go in the bar and sit down, the fans think you’re a drunk because you’re sitting in a bar, so you drink in the ballpark.”

Of course, there’s been some good fortune along the way to make it to 100.

Serving for the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Ocean during World War II after enlisting in 1942, Schallock narrowly escaped harm when the neighboring aircraft carrier USS Liscome Bay was sunk by a Japanese torpedo in November 1943 and 644 were killed — accounting for the majority of the casualties in the Battle of Makin.

“I never thought I would get back to the highest level. I wanted to play baseball, yes,” he said. “I did it in junior college. In those years, the Bay Area was full of baseball. When I say full of baseball, semi-pros. Every town had a team.”

Schallock has been signing his share of baseballs leading up to joining the rare centenarian club. They will throw him a party at his assisted living facility, Cogir On Napa Road Assisted Living and Memory Care.

Perhaps find him an agent now given all the fanfare?

“It’s too late,” Schallock said, laughing, “it’s too late.”

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Art Schallock

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MLB's oldest living player celebrates 100th birthday

Art Schallock pitched for the Yankees and Orioles in the 1950s

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‘There is no small number of INFJs who love art / aesthetics and aspire to be artists of some sort. But in many respects the artist role seems diametrically opposed to that of the counselor. INFJ counselors tend to be more investigative and analytic, employing language as their primary tool and medium. As Lenore Thomson has observed, they operate more out of the “left brain.”

By contrast, we generally think of artists as being more “right-brained,” that is, working in a more explorative or divergent fashion. From a type perspective, Extraverted Intuition (Ne) seems more obviously artistic than its more analytic and convergent Ni counterpart. This behooves us to understand why INFJs are drawn to the arts, as well as what they are doing when functioning as artists.

According to Elaine Schallock, art feels like a natural way for INFJs to translate their inner ideals or perceptions (Ni) into concrete realities, that is, into the realm of Extraverted Sensation (Se). The artistic process might also be seen as an attempt to unify the INFJ’s mind (Ni) with physical reality (Se), conferring a sense of safety and grounding by way of sensation and movement. Psychologically speaking, INFJs are using art as a means of trying to integrate their dominant (Ni) and inferior (Se) functions, which we know is a task of immense psychospiritual importance (and difficulty) for all types.

This Ni-Se focus contrasts with that of the counselor, who is primarily using Ni in combination with Fe. The INFJ counselor is complementing perceiving (Ni) with judging (Fe), while the artist operates predominantly in a state of perceiving (Ni-Se). As Jung observed:

The artist might be regarded as the normal representation of this type (i.e., the introverted intuitive), which tends to confine itself to the perceptive character of intuition. As a rule, the intuitive stops at perception.”

Because some measure of Fe is required to engender moral concern, the concerns of the perception-focused artist may be almost entirely aesthetic. Again, Jung: “The intuitive type has little inclination to make a moral problem of perception, since a strengthening of the judging functions is required for this.” (Para. 662)

Jung believed that certain stirrings, including questions regarding the broader meaning and impact of one’s work, must enter the artist’s purview for moral concern to emerge:

The moral problem arises when the intuitive tries to relate himself to his vision, when he is no longer satisfied with mere perception and its aesthetic configuration…when he confronts the questions: What does this mean for me or the world? What emerges from this vision in the way of a duty or a task for me or the world?

Jung also intimated that introverted intuitives animated by a moral imperative tend to operate as ‘prophets’. Unfortunately, the prophet moniker seems rather unhelpful, if not a bit outlandish, in our modern, scientific age...we needn’t shroud the INFJ type in quasi metaphysical terms in order to understand it.’

–– Dr A.J. Drenth ( from ‘3 Roles of the INFJ: Artist, Theorist, & Counselor / Advocate’ )

#i know it's fashionable these days to dismiss MBTI as made up but personally i find it v helpful (& accurate 4 me at least lol)#tho ofc the ''left / right brained'' thing is DEF completely baseless beyond an idiomatic shorthand #this is still useful tho #self-reflection #infj #artistic process

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Marlins SP Pablo Lopez accidentally made history vs. Braves

Last Friday, July 2, the Atlanta Braves hosted the Miami Marlins for the first game of a three-game series, with Pablo Lopez taking the mound for the Marlins against Drew Smyly for the Braves. After Smyly worked through a relatively uneventful top of the first inning, Lopez took the mound for what the Marlins hoped would be a long, effective outing. The day before, they used six relievers in an 11-6 win over the Philadelphia Phillies after starter Jordan Holloway allowed five runs in three lackluster innings. The Marlins were counting on Lopez to get their pitching staff back on track.

Instead, Lopez threw just one pitch, a 92-mph two-seam fastball that tailed into Ronald Acuña Jr.’s midsection for a hit-by-pitch.

This was the sixth time in 55 career games against Miami that Acuña had been hit by a Marlins pitcher and the third time it happened leading off the game. The most notable of those was the first one, on Aug. 15, 2018. Acuña had homered in five straight games, including three straight leadoff homers, and he was drilled in the left elbow by a 97-mph Jose Ureña fastball on the first pitch of the bottom of the first inning to break that streak. Benches cleared twice, Acuña left the game, Ureña was ejected and eventually suspended, and the foundation was set for years of drama any time a Marlins pitcher hits Acuña with a pitch.

When Lopez hit Acuña last weekend, again on the first pitch of the bottom of the first inning, Braves manager Brian Snitker was fired up. He made it clear to the umpires that he’d had enough. The umpires conferred — as they’re now mandated to by MLB in such a situation — and a few minutes after the pitch, crew chief Dan Iassogna ejected Lopez from the game even though no one actually thought Lopez intentionally hit Acuña.

Ross Detwiler came on in relief and allowed a single to Freddie Freeman and a sacrifice fly to Ozzie Albies, and suddenly Lopez had as many earned runs allowed as pitches thrown in the game. Surprisingly, that was it for the scoring that night. The Marlins bullpen threw 7.2 more innings, allowing just one more hit and no more runs, but Smyly and five relievers combined for a five-hit shutout. The result was a 1-0 Braves win, with Lopez the losing pitcher.

I started wondering: How many times has a starting pitcher faced just one hitter and taken the loss in a game? What about throwing just one pitch?

I turned to the internet to find out the answers to those questions. I’ll give the short answers, and then we’ll dig in to the specifics, because there are quite a few interesting tales to tell here.

Lopez was the ninth pitcher to start a game on the mound, face just one hitter and take the loss. I was a little surprised the number was so low because I realized as I was searching that the 1-0 score was doing a lot of work in my mind. The rules of baseball say a pitcher who allows the first run can take a loss in a 17-16 game, as long as the runs are scored in a particular order. There have been 45 instances of a starting pitcher facing just one hitter and being charged with a run, but only nine of those pitchers became the losing pitcher. In fact, teams are actually 20-25 in those games. Put another way, historically speaking, a team is almost twice as likely to win a game in which its starting pitcher faces one batter and allows a run as the 2021 Arizona Diamondbacks are to win any game.

But I digress. Lopez was the ninth starter to take a one-batter loss, but he was just the second starter to take a one-pitch loss, joining Art Schallock in 1955. There was almost a third, which I’ll also tell you about in a few minutes.

First, let’s talk about the seven starting pitchers who faced one hitter, threw more than one pitch and took the loss. Because baseball history tends to get more interesting the further back you go, we’ll go from most recent to least recent. Get ready for tales of a coach being ejected for trying to steal an umpire’s stopwatch, a catcher trying to catch a runner stealing by throwing the ball through his pitcher, an entire team trying to get ejected just so it could have a day off and some of the most beautiful old-timey baseball writing you can imagine!

Starters Who Faced One Batter and Got the Loss

Brandon Morrow, June 11, 2012

source http://bbcbreakingnews.com/2021/07/10/marlins-sp-pablo-lopez-accidentally-made-history-vs-braves/

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Dr. Brown, 95, Oldest World Series Champ

On a live New York Sports Tours virtual tour experience last month now available on demand, 88-year-old Larry Cutler spoke highly of former New York Yankees third baseman Bobby Brown.

Cutler, who introduced Babe Ruth on Babe Ruth Day at Yankee Stadium in 1947 when Cutler was a standout baseball player from the Bronx, said the 22-year-old Brown was the one Yankee who came up to him on the field to offer words of encouragement.

[caption id="attachment_5143" align="alignnone" width="2232"] On October 14, 1947, 22-year-old Yankees third baseman Bobby Brown was back at class as a Tulane University junior studying science, eight days after the Yankees defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the World Series[/caption]

In Major League Baseball (MLB) action that day, the Yankees lost, 1-0, to the Washington Senators. But Brown led both teams in hits, with three in five plate appearances.

Set to turn 96 on October 24, Brown is the world's oldest living World Series champion. In eight seasons in the majors, all with the Yankees, Brown was on five World Series title teams and batted an impressive .439 during his 17 World Series games.

Six months after Babe Ruth Day, Brown helped lead the Yankees to the World Series championship over the Brooklyn Dodgers. The same year, Brown was studying to be a medical doctor. A week after the Series, Brown was back at classes at Tulane University. He would go on to a long career as a Texas cardiologist before serving for a decade as the sixth president of MLB's American League.

Brown is now retired in Texas. Anne R. Keene, a friend of New York Sports Tours, spoke with Brown in March about the novel coronavirus pandemic. Keene is the author of The Cloudbuster Nine, a nonfiction account of a World War II baseball team of MLB players when they were fighter-pilot cadets. Brown had also served in the Navy, before he turned pro. Later, Brown served in the Korean War, missing more than a season before he returned to the club. In 1954 at age 29, Brown retired as a player to focus full-time on medicine.

[caption id="attachment_5120" align="alignnone" width="1306"] Appearing in their New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers playing days — from left to right on the top row and then from left to right on the bottom row, from oldest to youngest — are Eddie Robinson, Eddie Basinski, Tim Thompson, Art Shallock, Bobby Brown, and Wayne Terwilliger[/caption]

Brown and the five other oldest living former players who competed in at least 50 MLB games have something else in common. They were based in New York City as members of the American League's Yankees or National League's Dodgers. One also played for the city's New York Giants. Each was primarily a pitcher, catcher or infielder. In order from oldest to youngest, they are:

Eddie Robinson (born December 15, 1920) | Robinson served for three years in the Navy between stints as a Cleveland Indians first baseman. After the war, he played for a dozen more MLB seasons, including for the Yankees during their loss to the Dodgers in Robinson's second season in New York.

Eddie Basinski (November 4, 1922) | In 1944 and 1945, second baseman Basinski played in 147 games for the Dodgers over his first two MLB seasons. Following Basinski's first game as a starter for the Dodgers, Jack Smith wrote for the (New York) Daily News, "A quiet, bespectacled youngster who dotes on symphonic music and actually does urge melodies from a violin, he looked more like a divinity student than a second baseman — at least until today."

Tim Thompson (March 1, 1924) | In 1954, after service in the Navy during World War II, catcher Thompson played 10 games for the Dodgers in his rookie MLB season. In 1964, six years after the Dodgers move to Los Angeles, Thompson rejoined the team as a scout.

Art Schallock (April 25, 1924) | Like Thompson, Schallock joined the Dodgers after serving in World War II. Starting in 1951, Schallock was a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees on three consecutive World Series championship teams.

Wayne Terwilliger (June 27, 1925) | After serving in the Marines during World War II, Terwilliger played second base in New York for both the Dodgers (1951) and Giants (1955-1956). He was on the Dodgers team at the Polo Grounds in Manhattan when the Giants' Bobby Thomson recorded one of MLB's most famous home runs — a three-run, walk-off blast known as The Shot Heard 'Round the World that clinched the National League pennant for the Giants.

Watch Babe Ruth Day 1947: A Historic Live Experience, here on demand.

Read More Here: Dr. Brown, 95, Oldest World Series Champ

source https://newyorksports.tours/oldest-living-mlb-vets-played-for-new-york/

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