Milt Pappas interview:

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http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/article-4934-milt-pappas.html

 

According to Pappas, the game has changed in some ways, particularly the way a pitcher can approach a batter. "You can't pitch inside anymore," he said. "The players will bellyache about a pitcher busting him inside, and that's the most important thing for a pitcher." Rules of the game have always benefited the hitter, and "the ballparks are designed for hitters, everything falls on the side of the hitter," Papas stated.

 

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Not only baseball had passed Durocher by, but so had copulating without the use of a new-fangled device. Durocher had undergone surgery for a penile implant when most of his colleagues were busy taking an eternal nap.

 

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[SouthSideRyan]

OMG GO AWAY MILT PAPPAS

[TruffleShuffle]

i'm pretty sure i didn't need to know that leo durocher got a penile implant.

[GoCubsGo1679625768]

god I can't stand this guy. I remember when they had him on the Cubs TV broadcast after Zambrano's no-no and all he did was cry about how poor he was and how much his life sucks now.

[Lefty]

Wasn't his wife murdered? You don't recover from that. Give him a break.

[kujay]

Wasn't his wife murdered? You don't recover from that. Give him a break.

 

Not exactly, apparently. I didn't know any of this. From Wiki:

 

On September 11, 1982, Pappas’s wife, Carole, disappeared after leaving the couple’s home in the Farnham subdivision in the Chicago suburb of Wheaton. A group of four men known as the Ripper Crew were believed to have killed Mrs. Pappas in a satanic ritual. In 1984, Tom Kokoraleis, who was convicted for the murder of Lorraine Borowski led police to a field where Carole Pappas was allegedly buried, but searchers could find no remains. [1]

 

For five years, no sign was found of her car, clothing, or body. In 1987, almost five years to the day Mrs. Pappas disappeared, workers draining a shallow pond only four blocks from the Pappas home discovered the car Mrs. Pappas had been driving, a white and burgundy 1980 Buick, as well as her body. A DuPage County Coroner's jury ruled the cause of death as drowning. Police theorized Pappas mistook a driveway near the pond for a road leading to her subdivision, vaulting 25-30 feet from the bank into the pond. Pappas, a recovering alcoholic, may have been drinking, however blood alcohol content could not be confirmed.

 

Either way, a tough break for the guy. The Wiki article also discusses how Durocher wrote in his book that Pappas was a "cancer" on team. Thus some explanation for the wang-implant talk.

 

Overall, I remember sensing a tinge of the pathetic in listening to Pappas give interviews around the time of Z's no-hitter. Too bad.

[bhogg]

wangplant

[mdwilla]

my dad passed on some info from what I presume was the score that Pappas won't be attending this years convention because the Cubs has asked him not to.

[Monco]

my dad passed on some info from what I presume was the score that Pappas won't be attending this years convention because the Cubs has asked him not to.

How can they take away the opportunity to hear him cry about Froemmings ball four call one more time?