Completely Floored---

[minnesotacubsfan]

Every now and then I see my next door neighbor with a Cubs hat on. I've always wanted to ask him if he was a fan or just wore it 'cuz the Cubs are so cool. Today, I happened to catch him with it on so I made a point to ask him. His response was:

 

"Yea, well, my uncle played for them." -His uncle was ANDY PAFKO.

 

I nearly collapsed. My neighbor told me he has a signed picture of Andy at the wall completely dejected as the "Shot Heard Around the World" lands into the crowd beyond him. He also gave me a Cubs laptop bag he got from Andy as a souvenir. I am completely floored right now....

[Sammy Sofa]

Alright, now THAT is pretty [expletive] cool.

[OleMissCub]

That's awesome!

 

I've always wondered why athletic young men like Pafko who were in the early 20's during the war era didn't serve. I do know that hundreds of baseball players were given draft exemptions at the insistence of Roosevelt who wanted baseball to continue throughout the war for morale purposes.

[Soonernation]

Every now and then I see my next door neighbor with a Cubs hat on. I've always wanted to ask him if he was a fan or just wore it 'cuz the Cubs are so cool. Today, I happened to catch him with it on so I made a point to ask him. His response was:

 

"Yea, well, my uncle played for them." -His uncle was ANDY PAFKO.

 

I nearly collapsed. My neighbor told me he has a signed picture of Andy at the wall completely dejected as the "Shot Heard Around the World" lands into the crowd beyond him. He also gave me a Cubs laptop bag he got from Andy as a souvenir. I am completely floored right now....

To heck with the laptop bag ask him if he has any of Andy's jerseys :D

[Old Style]

awesome :good:

[minnesotacubsfan]

I've always wondered why athletic young men like Pafko who were in the early 20's during the war era didn't serve. I do know that hundreds of baseball players were given draft exemptions at the insistence of Roosevelt who wanted baseball to continue throughout the war for morale purposes.

 

I cant ask my neighbor that, its more then I would feel comfortable.

 

I am going to ask my neighbor over for beer and baseball more tho!!!

[minnesotacubsfan]

To heck with the laptop bag ask him if he has any of Andy's jerseys :D

lol

[Banedon]

That's awesome!

 

I've always wondered why athletic young men like Pafko who were in the early 20's during the war era didn't serve. I do know that hundreds of baseball players were given draft exemptions at the insistence of Roosevelt who wanted baseball to continue throughout the war for morale purposes.

 

I think you could turn any conversation into a US history conversation.

[Soul]

That is very cool.

[javy knows my name]

Alright, now THAT is pretty [expletive] cool.

Yeah, put that in the random cool [expletive] thread dude

[OleMissCub]

That's awesome!

 

I've always wondered why athletic young men like Pafko who were in the early 20's during the war era didn't serve. I do know that hundreds of baseball players were given draft exemptions at the insistence of Roosevelt who wanted baseball to continue throughout the war for morale purposes.

 

I think you could turn any conversation into a US history conversation.

 

Not necessarily, but Andy Pafko will forever be linked with the War because he was on the last Cubs pennant team in 1945. In fact, the book he wrote the foreward to is titled "The Wartime Cubs and the Pennant of 1945"

[Soul]

That's awesome!

 

I've always wondered why athletic young men like Pafko who were in the early 20's during the war era didn't serve. I do know that hundreds of baseball players were given draft exemptions at the insistence of Roosevelt who wanted baseball to continue throughout the war for morale purposes.

 

I think you could turn any conversation into a US history conversation.

 

Not necessarily, but Andy Pafko will forever be linked with the War because he was on the last Cubs pennant team in 1945. In fact, the book he wrote the foreward to is titled "The Wartime Cubs and the Pennant of 1945"

 

You need to go on that History IQ show. Could win a few bucks.

[abuck1220]

That's awesome!

 

I've always wondered why athletic young men like Pafko who were in the early 20's during the war era didn't serve. I do know that hundreds of baseball players were given draft exemptions at the insistence of Roosevelt who wanted baseball to continue throughout the war for morale purposes.

 

you think about war a lot.

[minnesotacubsfan]

 

Not necessarily, but Andy Pafko will forever be linked with the War because he was on the last Cubs pennant team in 1945. In fact, the book he wrote the foreward to is titled "The Wartime Cubs and the Pennant of 1945"

 

I really dont get this. of all the things my neighbor has said about him, none of it had to do with any war.

[manbearcub]

Martin Van Buren, Brian Epstein, and Alexander the Great.

[manbearcub]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/Carnac.jpg

 

 

Name the three topics most likely to come up at dinner on OMC's dates.

[OleMissCub]

 

Not necessarily, but Andy Pafko will forever be linked with the War because he was on the last Cubs pennant team in 1945. In fact, the book he wrote the foreward to is titled "The Wartime Cubs and the Pennant of 1945"

 

I really dont get this. of all the things my neighbor has said about him, none of it had to do with any war.

 

well that's not surprising. I wouldn't expect it to come up immediately. However, 1945 was obviously one of the most important years in world history and Pafko was a massive part of the Cubs last pennant that year. 1945 will usually bring up an image of the war the same way 2001 makes one think of 9/11. Furthermore, most all of that 1945 Cubs team were replacement players while the Cubs regulars were off serving in the military. So it's not like some gigantic leap of intellect to connect the 1945 Cubs with WWII.

[OleMissCub]

Name the three topics most likely to come up at dinner on OMC's dates.

 

lol, awesome. You actually got two of them right.

[minnesotacubsfan]

 

well ..........h WWII.

 

ok..but OMC, you make it seem like he should have been sleeping with a m-1