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01-07-2019, 04:10 PM
Can You Identify this Red Sox player?
My son, now an adult, used to collect Topps football cards when he was in elementary school. The cards, in good condition, are about 40-years old (circa 1980). If you can identify the Red Sox player, below, from the rhyming couplets, I'll send you, at my expense, ten football cards. If you want the cards, just write down your answer with a name and address and send it to me as a private message. If you have the correct answer, I'll notify you by a private message. I'll then put the cards in the mail (I'm not interested in saving addresses or e-mails).
NINE SEASONS…FOUR TEAMS…;
TWO-FIFTIES LIFETIME…IT SEEMS.
CINCY...SOX...SAINT LOUIE AND THE BENGALS;
SHORT ON HOMERS…LONG ON SINGLES.
GOODBYE “NEEDLE”...“GIVE A HOOT”;
“DIZZY” COMES ALONG TO BOOT.
“SKIDS” AND SLIDES…GEORGE TO HIS RIGHT;
AND EVEN GEORGE JOINS THE FLIGHT.
HE’D MANAGE ON ERIE AFTER DARK;
MANY-A-LOSS…FEW CAME TO THE PARK.
HE’D MANAGE IN THE MINORS…MANY-A YEAR;
YET NEVER TO REPRISE HIS BIG-LEAGUE CAREER.
My son, now an adult, used to collect Topps football cards when he was in elementary school. The cards, in good condition, are about 40-years old (circa 1980). If you can identify the Red Sox player, below, from the rhyming couplets, I'll send you, at my expense, ten football cards. If you want the cards, just write down your answer with a name and address and send it to me as a private message. If you have the correct answer, I'll notify you by a private message. I'll then put the cards in the mail (I'm not interested in saving addresses or e-mails).
NINE SEASONS…FOUR TEAMS…;
TWO-FIFTIES LIFETIME…IT SEEMS.
CINCY...SOX...SAINT LOUIE AND THE BENGALS;
SHORT ON HOMERS…LONG ON SINGLES.
GOODBYE “NEEDLE”...“GIVE A HOOT”;
“DIZZY” COMES ALONG TO BOOT.
“SKIDS” AND SLIDES…GEORGE TO HIS RIGHT;
AND EVEN GEORGE JOINS THE FLIGHT.
HE’D MANAGE ON ERIE AFTER DARK;
MANY-A-LOSS…FEW CAME TO THE PARK.
HE’D MANAGE IN THE MINORS…MANY-A YEAR;
YET NEVER TO REPRISE HIS BIG-LEAGUE CAREER.