Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Carl Signs Up by Mike Andrews Carl Signs Up by Mike Andrews. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 660b6eea6b1c4dca • Your IP : 116.202.236.252 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Mike Andrews. Mike Andrews is a character only heard on radio stations in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas . Mike Andrews is implied to be a motivational speaker. He had a show in the Los Santos Convention Center sometime in 1992, which the player cannot watch. He also wrote a book, Rags are Riches . He is a parody of real-life motivational speaker Tony Robbins. He talks and writes primarily about how he believes poor people must stop worrying about the fact that they're poor and instead make the most of the opportunity to be poor. He also claims that the rich people (like himself) need the poor people, comparing them to Yin and Yang, respectively. Ironically, he charges $200 (payable in ten installments) to attend his shows and ridiculous amounts of money to purchase his CDs, making it all seem like a scam to make money. On This Date in Sports July 2, 1970: The No Hitter Killer. With a one out in the ninth inning, Horace Clarke of the New York Yankees spoils Joe Niekro’s bid for a no-hitter at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers knuckleballer would settle for a one-hitter, winning 5-0. It is the third time in one month that Horace Clarke broke up a no-hitter in the ninth inning, having spoiled history for Jim Rooker of the Kansas City Royals on June 4th and Sonny Seibert of the Boston Red Sox on June 19th. Horace Clarke was born on June 2, 1940, in U.S Virgin Islands. Signed by the Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1958, he spent seven seasons in the minors before making his debut. When Horace Clarke joined the Yankees in 1965, they were a dynasty in decline as they were in the midst of their first losing season in 40 years. When Bobby Richardson retired, Clarke inherited the starting second base job for the Yankees. As more players from the glory days retired, Horace Clarke became the face of the team. He was not a very talented player but worked hard and became respected by the fans. For many Yankee fans, the lead period from 1965-1973 is known as the “Horace Clarke era.” The 1970 Yankees managed by Ralph Houk were a solid ballclub as they posted a record of 93-69 but finished a distant second behind the Baltimore Orioles, the Yankees’ resurgence was sparked in part by Thurman Munson, who won the Rookie of the Year. June was the Yanks’ strongest month, as they posted a record of 17-7. In June, the Yankees were nearly no-hit twice, with Horace Clarke breaking up the no-hitter in the ninth in both games. On June 4th at Yankee Stadium against the Kansas City Royals, were tied up in knots by Jim Rooker. The Royals had grabbed a 1-0 on an RBI single by Bob Oliver in the first inning. Stan Bahnsen kept the Yankees in the game, by not allowing another run. In the ninth inning, he was three outs from history as Horace Clarke led off the inning with a single for New York’s first hit. Clarke would later score on a double by Bobby Murcer. The Royals allowed Rooker to stay in the game until the 12th inning as the Yankees handed him a loss when Clarke hit a sac-fly that scored Jerry Kennedy for a 2-1 win. On June 19th, the Yankees were in danger of being no-hit again, this time by Sonny Siebert of the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. Stan Bahnsen again made the start for the Yankees, this time he was smacked around, allowing five runs in five innings. Boston tallied their offense with the long ball as they got home runs from Mike Andrews, Reggie Smith, and Carl Yastrzemski. The Red Sox added two more runs in the eighth off Mike Kekich as Siebert came to the mound in the ninth inning, with a 7-0 lead. Once again, Horace Clarke ended the no-hit bid with a leadoff single. Clarke’s single sparked a four-run rally for New York, that was capped by a Roy White home run, as Sparky Lyle came in relief and earned the save as the Red Sox held on for a 7-4 win. Facing knuckleballer Joe Niekro at Tiger Stadium on July 2nd, the Yankees showed little spark as Mel Stottlemyre allowed five runs. Niekro himself delivered the first two runs, with a single in the second inning. Later Detroit got home runs from Jim Price and Jim Northrup. Joe Niekro was nearly perfect on a Thursday Night in the Motor City, as he had just one strikeout. After getting Pete Ward to start the ninth with a fly ball to center, Horace Clarke hit a soft ground ball between second and first. Dick McAuliffe made a diving stop at the lip of the grass, but could not get the throw to first base in time to retire Clarke. Niekro would get the next two outs and won the game 5-0 with a one-hitter. Horace Clarke spoiled three no-hitters in the ninth inning in 29 days. To put that remarkable feat in perspective, only Joe Mauer of the Minnesota Twins spoiled three no-hitters in the ninth inning. Mauer did it in a 15-year career. Card of the Week: Mike Andrews 1973 Topps. No, I don’t mean the extreme lo-fi nature of the shot, with its random action, apparently shot out of the upper deck. I mean, how did this card happen? The Chicago White Sox are on the road. The photo should have been taken in 1972. There is Astroturf in the outfield. And based on the baby- blue coloring of the opponent’s helmet, that appears to be Bob Oliver of the Kansas City Royals smothering second base rather painfully on a slide to break up a double play. But Kansas City didn’t move into the Astroturfed Royals Stadium until 1973. Before then, they played at Municipal Stadium, home of the old K.C. Athletics and even the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues. But Municipal Stadium never had Astroturf! So, the photo for this card was hastily shot during that opening weekend, right? Look at the long sleeves. Seems like April in Kansas City. Here’s the problem with that scenario: See that No, 42 above? The 1973 Topps set was the last to be issued in series, meaning that every few weeks, a new 132 cards were issued. Andrews being No. 42 means his card was in the very first series of the year. Today, Topps breaks its cards into just two series. The first 350 or so cards are issued before spring training. Later in the summer a second series is released, which does manage to incorporate player moves (offseason trades are almost always depicted with photoshopping rather than authentic game shots from spring training or April games). I can’t determine when the first series of 1973 Topps cards were issued, but there’s no way that this shot could have come from early 1973 action. If Andrews was in the final series of Topps cards from that year, it’s possible. But he’s not. So, OK, I’m stumped on the lineage of this photo. Let’s talk a little bit about Andrews instead. As you see from his card above, Andrews was not a star. When your cartoon blurb highlight is from six seasons earlier and notes you as a league leader in sacrifice hits , you’re not a star. But this card betrays Andrews a bit. He started his career with the Boston Red Sox and actually produced some tidy numbers, with successive seasons of 3.7 and 3.8 WAR in 1968-69. After five years in Boston, Andrews changed socks and headed to Chicago with Luis Alvarado (who will pop up one day in the series, with an undeniably classic 1973 Topps card), in exchange for Luis Aparicio. Andrews didn’t produce much for the White Sox: In 309 career games, he managed just 0.2 WAR, the definition of replacement level. At first blush it seemed that a good comp for Andrews’ career, at least his productive time in Boston, was Scott Fletcher. But, in fact, one of Andrews’ closest career comps isn’t quite Fletcher, but another one in the Fletcher family. Yep, Andrews’ third-closest comp per Baseball-Reference, with 94.6% similarity, is Gordon Beckham . During the season this card was issued, 1973, Andrews was released by the White Sox after 52 games, slashing .201/.302/.258. Andrews’ old manager in Boston, Dick Williams, was helming the defending champion Oakland A’s, and persuaded A’s owner Charlie Finley to sign Andrews. On July 31, Oakland signed Andrews and would put him on its postseason roster during its run to a second straight World Series crown. Andrews had two at-bats in the ALCS, but took an infamous turn in the World Series. In Game 2 of Oakland’s World Series against the New York Mets, Andrews committed two two-out errors in the 12th inning. First, John Milner’s grounder went through his legs, scoring two runs. One batter later, Andrews threw wide to first on a Jerry Grote grounder, allowing another run to score. The A’s would go on to lose, 10-7. Before the errors, Oakland was already down, 7-6. That didn’t prevent Finley from scapegoating Andrews, forcing him after the game to sign an affidavit that he was injured, which would allow Finley to replace Andrews on the roster. In a what-new development, Williams and all of Andrews’ A’s teammates supported the embattled second baseman, and it took commissioner Bowie Kuhn to intervene and reinstate Andrews to the roster. He played in one more World Series game, Game 4, grounding out in a pinch-hitting appearance. Finley then ordered him benched, and Andrews would not play again in the Series, or the majors. Remembering Carl Yastrzemski’s Triple Crown 50 years ago. Only an Impossible Dream could have relegated Carl Yastrzemski’s 1967 Triple Crown to a virtual footnote. It was a dream realized, as the Yastrzemski-led Red Sox pounded life into a moribund franchise and won the American League pennant for the first time since 1946. The Bridgehampton-raised Yastrzemski, now 77, led the way with a virtuoso performance that — if only for one season — drew comparisons with Red Sox icon Ted Williams, who won the Triple Crown twice. The 5-11, 175-pound Yastrzemski did it by hitting .326, driving in 121 runs and tying the Twins’ Harmon Killebrew with 44 home runs. Now, 50 years later, Yastrzemski still gives scant attention to one of the greatest individual seasons in major league history. “I never even thought about it, not at all, even during the season,’’ Yastrzemski said from South Florida, where the avid golfer spends his winters. “I think it’s because we finished last or next-to-last my first six years, then all of a sudden, to become involved in the pennant race, there was only one thing on your mind, and that was to try to help win a pennant. So I never thought about the Triple Crown. It was like a shock being in the pennant race.’’ The Red Sox, Twins, Tigers and White Sox battled for the American League flag in what many called the best race in baseball history. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy. Orioles outfielder Frank Robinson had won the Triple Crown in 1966, so Yastrzemski’s pursuit did not captivate fans the way it did 45 years later in 2012, when the Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera won his Triple Crown in the era of wide television coverage and frenzied social media. Yastrzemski didn’t see it coming, nor could anyone else. The lefthanded-hitting leftfielder had averaged fewer than 16 home runs his first six years. At 27, he already was a three-time All-Star and had won a batting title. But to Red Sox fans, he was not Williams. “I went to spring training with the Red Sox in ’60 and I lockered next to him,’’ Yastrzemski said. “I think he was 44 at the time. We had some great conversations. I was just always amazed at how big he was and the strength that he had. If I would hit a driver in golf, he’d hit a pitching wedge and hit it just as far. I just marveled watching him take batting practice. “But it put a lot of pressure on me my first year up being compared to him. I knew myself that I could never be the hitter that he was. I knew that. I think my first couple months in the big leagues, I tried to change my style hitting instead of hitting the way I did in the minor leagues. I tried to hit home runs, trying to be him. It finally dawned on me after a few months I couldn’t be him and never would be.’’ Yastrzemski listened to what everyone said about hitting but didn’t necessarily take their advice. “Most of the time,’’ he said, “I tried to figure out everything myself.’’ He often changed his batting stance, with his most distinctive version the one in which he held the bat high. “It wasn’t as high as people thought,’’ he said. “It was just ear level. At that time, it was higher than normal.’’ In the winter before the 1967 season, Yastrzemski started to work out under physical therapist Gene Berde, who had been a member of the Hungarian Olympic boxing team, at the Colonial Resort in Wakefield, Massachusetts. “It was a boxer’s workout. I would jump rope, do some wrist curls, things like that,’’ Yastrzemski said. “I did rope climbing. After the workout, I swung a leadened bat maybe a couple hundred times. I think I started to mature physically.’’ And Yastrzemski’s teammates noticed. “Carl to that point had not been a Triple Crown threat,’’ former infielder Mike Andrews said from Jupiter, Florida. “He didn’t hit that many home runs. It was almost like the whole year, pitchers didn‘t believe he was going to do it.’’ Shortstop Rico Petrocelli agreed. “While I don’t recall anyone thinking Yaz had a chance for the Triple Crown, he showed great power after his workout in the offseason,’’ he said from Nashua, New Hampshire. “If anything was close to the plate, he hit it solid somewhere. It was like the [1969] Miracle Mets. Every day somebody was doing something special, and Carl was doing it every day.’’ But it was all about the pennant race. In 1966, the Red Sox finished ninth out of 10 American League teams, 26 games behind Baltimore. It was the fourth time in the previous five years that they had finished no higher than eighth. They hadn’t had a winning season since 1958 and had gone 574-703 (.449) from 1959-66. In the first three months of the 1967 season, though, they hovered around the first division and were only six games out of first place at the All-Star break. The Red Sox won 10 straight games after the break and moved to within a half-game of the lead, but on Aug. 18, outfielder Tony Conigliaro was lost for the season when a pitch by the Angels’ Jack Hamilton fractured his left cheekbone, dislocated his jaw and, most significantly, damaged the retina in his left eye. “I thought we would have had a shot [in the ’67 World Series, in which the Cardinals beat the Red Sox in seven games],’’ Yastrzemski said. “It could have been different if Conigliaro had been healthy.’’ The regular season went down to the final weekend with the Twins at Fenway Park, where the Red Sox would draw more than a million fans that season for the first time in Yastrzemski’s career. The Red Sox trailed the Twins by one game with two remaining. The Triple Crown was back- burner talk, if at all. Yastrzemski and Killebrew were tied with 43 homers and Yastrzemski led Killebrew 115-111 in the RBI race. Yastrzemski was batting .319, Robinson .314. In the Saturday game, Yastrzemski had three hits, including his 44th homer, a three-run shot into the rightfield seats off reliever Jim Merritt in the seventh in a 6-4 victory. “I said, ‘Wow, that’s hard to believe that happened,’ ’’ Merritt said from Hemet, California. “That’s one of those things that was meant to happen.’’ Merritt said it didn’t occur to him that Yastrzemski had taken the home run lead over Killebrew. “We were just trying to finish off the pennant,’’ he said. In the ninth, Killebrew came up against Red Sox reliever Gary Bell. “I said, ‘I’ll just pitch around him,’ ’’ Bell said from San Antonio, Texas. “He hits it right over the fence. That ended up tying Yaz. He hit 573 of them, so I wasn’t the only one who gave up a homer to him.’’ Bell didn’t feel he had disappointed Yastrzemski. “I don’t even recall that being an issue,’’ Bell said. “We were too worried about winning.’’ On Sunday, the final day of the season, Yastrzemski went 4-for-4 as the Red Sox won, 5-3, to earn at least a tie for the pennant at 92-70. The team stayed at Fenway listening on the radio as the Angels eliminated the Tigers by winning the second game of a doubleheader, which clinched the pennant for Boston. Killebrew took no solace in denying Yastrzemski the outright home lead. “It was more disappointing to my dad losing the pennant,’’ son Cameron Killebrew said of his Hall of Fame father, who died in 2011. Merritt agreed. “Harmon was a pro’s pro,’’ he said. “He tipped his cap to Yastrzemski for what he accomplished. That’s the kind of man he was.’’ At the time, Yastrzemski told The Boston Globe, “I’ll settle for a tie with Killebrew. He’s a pretty good ballplayer. What the hell. I had it for one inning.’’ Petrocelli said that while tying Killebrew for home runs “didn’t take anything away from’’ the Triple Crown, “I think [Yastrzemski] was a little disappointed in that. In fact, I know it.’’ Yastrzemski said that was not the case and didn’t realize he had won the Triple Crown until he read it in the newspaper. “Never thought about it,’’ he said. “Because we won the pennant, it was just matter of fact.’’ Yastrzemski was 7-for-8 in the two games, raising his average to .326. Robinson, who got off to a good start but suffered a concussion in late June and never fully recovered, finished at .311. Yastrzemski had an incredible final month, hitting .491 with five homers and 18 RBIs. In his last six games, he hit .619. He was named the American League’s Most Valuable Player and won a Gold Glove. His offensive onslaught continued in the World Series where he batted .400 (10-for-25) with two doubles, three home runs and five RBIs, and an on-base percentage of .500, slugging percentage of .840 and a 1.340 OPS. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a player do as much as he did,’’ said former Red Sox pitcher Jim Lonborg, who won the Cy Young Award in ’67 and now is a dentist in Hanover, Massachusetts. “I don’t think he was interested in records. We were all riding on his shoulders. We loved to see it. I felt like that team was the one that lit the fire of Red Sox Nation.’’ After eight straight losing seasons, the Red Sox had their pennant. “The place went nuts,’’ Andrews said. “We were 100-1 shots. Baseball was reborn in Boston way beyond anyone’s expectations.’’ As for Yaz’s Triple Crown? “I don’t remember anyone talking about it,’’ Andrews said. After the Triple Crown season, Yastrzemski had 40-homer seasons in 1969 and 1970. He retired in 1983 at age 44 after a 23-year career in which he had 3,419 hits and 452 home runs. He never won a World Series title but was thrilled when the Red Sox finally won in 2004, ending an 86-year drought. “I absolutely loved it,’’ he said. “I imagine I felt like the Cubs felt this year.’’ Yastrzemski had triple bypass heart surgery in 2008 and said his health is good. He has a favorite — and private — fishing spot where his spends his summers in Massachusetts. He occasionally does autograph shows but avoids the limelight befitting a Hall of Fame player. While Yastrzemski spends some time as a guest instructor with the Red Sox in spring training, he was never interested in remaining in the game after retiring. “I put so much into it as a player,’’ he said. “I was never interested in coaching or managing or anything like that. I had my place in the sun.’’ Steven Marcus started at Newsday in 1972 and has covered high school, college and professional sports. He is a voting member of the Baseball Writers Association of America.