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Wanna again welcome you out to The 405 Coffee Break. Guys, it's Friday. Get you a cup of coffee. Glass iced tea or bottled water. Let's see what's happening out there.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat coming up a bit $5.49 a bushel. 550lb steer calf $4.33 a pound, and someone by the name of OraHood had 15 head of steers, weighing 595lbs apiece, and they sold for $4.13. That pencils out to $2,397 ahead, but who's counting? But guys, there's more. No, there's a butcher hog in Iowa 67ยข a pound, and a lamb that's fat in Billing will fetch you $2.21 a pound. But guys, there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:Okay. I had an interested party who used to be an umpire from out of state asked a very relevant question.
OK Solberg:His question to me was, who is the best baseball player to come out of Montana? Did you hear what was just asked from a former umpire who knows the game inside out? Ask a question like that, I hope to shout and call the doctor. That's a question I lay awake at night dreaming, someone would ask me. Do you know what I mean?
OK Solberg:If you have a passion, you, the listener, if you have a passion, if you have a like for something, don't you just savor it when someone asks a question in your field of interest? Whether you're a roughneck and someone asks, hey. What's the equivalent mud weight at bottom hole while circulating out a kick? Or if you're a quilter and they ask you which stitch stitch length do you prefer when free motion quilting on a long arm? Or maybe you're a long distance runner training for a marathon and someone asks, hey.
OK Solberg:How do you structure your back to back long runs during a peak training block to balance time on feet with recovery? Oh, you know what I'm talking about. So to get asked who was the best baseball player to come out of Montana, I didn't even need to go to my record book. It's in my mind instantly. Dave McNally from Billings, Montana who played for the Baltimore Orioles.
OK Solberg:Listen now. David Arthur McNally, born October 1942, sadly passed away 12/01/2002, was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a left handed pitcher from 1962 through 1975, most notably as a member of the Baltimore Orioles dynasty that won four American League pennants and two World Series championships between 1966 and 1971. Born in Billings, Montana, McNally was raised by his mother after his father died in the battle of Okinawa. He was signed by the Orioles out of high school in 1960 and made his major league debut two years later throwing a shout out in his first game in the major leagues.
OK Solberg:Oh, guys, he played side by side with another baseball great who went by the name of Brooks Robinson. Brooks was an American baseball player who played his entire twenty three year career in Major League Baseball as a 3rd baseman for the Baltimore Orioles from 1955 through 1977, nicknamed Mr Hoover, Mr Hoover, the vacuum cleaner. And another nickname was simply the human vacuum cleaner. He is generally considered to have been the greatest defensive 3rd baseman in Major League history. So Dave McNally and Brooks Robinson were both playing in 1966 and again in 1970 when the Orioles won the World Series.
OK Solberg:And please, please don't ever forget that on 10/13/1970, Dave McNally hit a grand slam home run-in game three against the Cincinnati Reds. Listen. Dave McNally is the only pitcher, did you hear me? The only pitcher in Major League history to ever hit a grand slam in a World Series game. Pitchers are not generally known for their hitting prowess.
OK Solberg:They focus on pitching, not hitting. So to have a pitcher hit a home run of any kind is rare, but to hit a bases loaded grand slam, that's heroic. And the only pitcher to do so in a world series game came from the Big Sky Country, Billings, Montana. Yeah. Check out his life-sized bronze statue out at Dealer Field there in Billings right across from Perkins on 27th Street.
OK Solberg:You gotta drive right by it when you go to the Billings Clinic. Stop and see it. So I'll tell you a little secret. I have only three baseball cards down in my office. The rest of them are at home.
OK Solberg:I have only three down in my office. And one is Johnny Padres, who pitched a shutout in game seven of the World Series in Yankee Stadium to have the Brooklyn Dodgers win their first ever world series in 1955. The second card is none none other than Brooks Robinson himself, the human vacuum cleaner, uncanny ability to feel the baseball and throw it with precision. He was a 3rd baseman. Yep.
OK Solberg:They signed him to the hot corner, and he's shown there. And then, of course, my third card is Dave McNally himself. So if you ask who is the best baseball player to come out of Montana, I can answer that question in an instant. And now you can too. I'll close with a bible verse.
OK Solberg:Ecclesiastes 9 verse 10. Whatever your hands find to do, do it with all your might. A very fitting verse to close with. Baseball players do it with all their might. Dave McNally did.
OK Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.
OK Solberg:Okay, Orvin. That was great. Alright.