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01-07-2019, 05:13 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).
Last one for a while. I'm having dinner soon. Then, it's Alabama vs. Clemson.
FOUR-SCORE AND FIVE YEARS AGO;
IN FLATBUSH WHERE IT BEGAN…YOU KNOW.
CAME A PITCHER…A BRAWNY MAN;
WHOSE CAREER IN THE MAJORS FIVE YEARS DID SPAN.
FIVE WINS OVER FIVE-HUNDRED AND THREE SHUTOUTS;
OH, COULD GENNARO SMASH THOSE CLOUTS.
YET DOWNHILL FROM THERE WOULD GO HIS CHANCES;
LITTLE COULD NOW BE SAID THAT ENHANCES.
BUT WHO COULD FORGET THOSE OCCASIONAL BLASTS;
INTO THE VILLAGES AND HAMLETS OF OUR PAST.
HE’D OPEN A BISTRO NEAR LEXINGTON AVE.;
PIZZA…INSALATA...AND VINO..MIGHT YOU HAVE.
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).
Last one for a while. I'm having dinner soon. Then, it's Alabama vs. Clemson.
FOUR-SCORE AND FIVE YEARS AGO;
IN FLATBUSH WHERE IT BEGAN…YOU KNOW.
CAME A PITCHER…A BRAWNY MAN;
WHOSE CAREER IN THE MAJORS FIVE YEARS DID SPAN.
FIVE WINS OVER FIVE-HUNDRED AND THREE SHUTOUTS;
OH, COULD GENNARO SMASH THOSE CLOUTS.
YET DOWNHILL FROM THERE WOULD GO HIS CHANCES;
LITTLE COULD NOW BE SAID THAT ENHANCES.
BUT WHO COULD FORGET THOSE OCCASIONAL BLASTS;
INTO THE VILLAGES AND HAMLETS OF OUR PAST.
HE’D OPEN A BISTRO NEAR LEXINGTON AVE.;
PIZZA…INSALATA...AND VINO..MIGHT YOU HAVE.