The Moose is gone

[Chuck Nessa]

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[alocispepraluger102]

#14 RIP

when moose was playing, there was no free agency for baseball players.

as i recall, his salary in 1954 was about $10,000.

moose was a helluva 1st baseman, a kind and funny man,fascinating, and interesting.

[AllenLowe]

Tresh to RIchardson to Skowron - made a lot more double plays than Tinkers to Evers to Chance. Too bad the Yankees were the Anti-Christ.

[JSngry]

Never knew him as a Yankee. I only knew him as a White Soc & a surprisingly frequently delivering Strat-O-Matic card. Got to be where I always wanted to be the White Sox, just to see what Moose would do.

That, and he always seemed to be sweating in his baseball card photos, at least how I remember it.

Those are all very fond remembrances, by the way.

[Larry Kart]

His radio interviews in recent years were hilarious. A fantastic storyteller and clearly a great guy.

[alocispepraluger102]

as i recall, when dick howser was dying of brain cancer, skowron accepted much of the responsibility of howser's medical expenses and emotional care.

[GA Russell]

Tresh to RIchardson to Skowron - made a lot more double plays than Tinkers to Evers to Chance. Too bad the Yankees were the Anti-Christ.

Allen, as great as Skowron was, I don't think that that is correct. As I recall, Tresh was a rookie in '61, and from '61 on Pepitone got a lot of playing time at first.

[alocispepraluger102]

Tresh to RIchardson to Skowron - made a lot more double plays than Tinkers to Evers to Chance. Too bad the Yankees were the Anti-Christ.

Allen, as great as Skowron was, I don't think that that is correct. As I recall, Tresh was a rookie in '61, and from '61 on Pepitone got a lot of playing time at first.

pepi was one of the first ballplayers to wear a hairpiece.

[GA Russell]

One of the first? aloc, I didn't know there were any others who had a "game piece"!

[JSngry]

Pepitone was one of the first, maybe the first, to use a blow dryer (or "hair dryer" as it was called then, like it was the equivalent of a beauty shop tool) in the locker room, that much I remember. When he got traded to the Astros, that was a BIG deal.

[Dave James]

Yankee shortstops during the time Skowron was with the team were Phil Rizutto, Gil McDougald and Tony Kubek, Second basemen were McDougald, Jerry Coleman and Bobby Richardson. Sorry to hear the Moose has passed. He was a mainstay of those 50's teams that solidified my ongoing love affair with the Yankees. I saw him play against the White Sox at Comiskey Park in Chicago several time in the late 50's. Solid guy all around. Good fielder. Better hitter. .294 career average.

[ValerieB]

finally, something we can all agree on: Moose was a great guy and excellent ballplayer! RIP, Moose Skowron.

[alocispepraluger102]

finally, something we can all agree on: Moose was a great guy and excellent ballplayer! RIP, Moose Skowron.

[AllenLowe]

sorry, it was Kubek to Richardson to Skowron - and I'm referring the early 60s when they were the double play combination from hell.

[johnlitweiler]

I have been highly offended at the obituaries that refer to Skowron as a White Sox star. True, he spent the end of his career playing for us. It was penance. He and Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford and a few others ruined my childhood by torturing the White Sox year after year.

[AllenLowe]

I'm a Yankee hater from way back; I came from a family of Brooklyn Dodger fans; the Yankees were always the equivalent of "goyish" from that old Lenny Bruce routine; the Dodgers were the real Jews.