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Good stuff...thanks..
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Sunday Charlie Maxwell was from Paw Paw Michigan, just like one of my girl buddies I went to college at M with.
She used to like to tell about how her father would say "Sunday Charlie Maxwell - greatest baseball player who ever came out of Paw Paw."
Really? Ya think?
And the two of us would laugh...
She used to like to tell about how her father would say "Sunday Charlie Maxwell - greatest baseball player who ever came out of Paw Paw."
Really? Ya think?
And the two of us would laugh...
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One thing I remember about that 1959 Tigers team was the awful start to the season. When they lost that game 17 to stand at 2 and 15 they fired Bill Norman as the manager and replaced him with Jimmy Dykes. Maxwell as the story says did have alot of homeruns on Sundays.
But my favorite Charlie Maxwell homerun from that year was on a Monday, May 18.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS195905180.shtml
The day before, a sunday, the Tigers got hosed by the redsox 10 -1. There I was watching the game on tv as a going on 12 years old kid and nearly in tears, lol, that my Tigers were losing that badly to the redsox.
My dad had tickets for the game on Monday the 18th. I wanted revenge,
So it worked out my favorite Tigers pitcher Jim Bunning was pitching. The Best Tigers game of my youth going to fenway. The Tigers crushed them 14 - 2. Maxwell, Kaline, Frank Bolling, and Bunning all hit homeruns. Years later on ebay, I found a pic of the four of them from the post game and have it in my collection.
Also, from that 1959 season with Charlie Maxwell and the Tigers playing the redsox, I don't remember what game or part of the season it was, but watching the game on tv and a fly ball went to old Paw Paw in leftfield and the the camera followed the ball off the bat and Maxwell just stood there flatfooted, he didn't move an inch and he caught it, looked over to the centerfielder and had this big smile. good memories.
Thanks as always for the story Ty.
But my favorite Charlie Maxwell homerun from that year was on a Monday, May 18.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS195905180.shtml
The day before, a sunday, the Tigers got hosed by the redsox 10 -1. There I was watching the game on tv as a going on 12 years old kid and nearly in tears, lol, that my Tigers were losing that badly to the redsox.
My dad had tickets for the game on Monday the 18th. I wanted revenge,
So it worked out my favorite Tigers pitcher Jim Bunning was pitching. The Best Tigers game of my youth going to fenway. The Tigers crushed them 14 - 2. Maxwell, Kaline, Frank Bolling, and Bunning all hit homeruns. Years later on ebay, I found a pic of the four of them from the post game and have it in my collection.
Also, from that 1959 season with Charlie Maxwell and the Tigers playing the redsox, I don't remember what game or part of the season it was, but watching the game on tv and a fly ball went to old Paw Paw in leftfield and the the camera followed the ball off the bat and Maxwell just stood there flatfooted, he didn't move an inch and he caught it, looked over to the centerfielder and had this big smile. good memories.
Thanks as always for the story Ty.
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