In reply to: If Swarbrick were asked if he reads Jake's Field posted by ShermanOaksND
Some years after Yaz left ND, Jake Kline (who sometimes liked to tell stories) said that Yaz was the only guy he ever saw who could hit a line drive through the pitcher's legs and still have it go over the center field fence. The pitchers knew that couldn't possibly be true, but the very thought of it made the pitchers wet their pants.
The way I hear it 2Domer emptied Schmidt's bladder with a brush-back pitch before striking him out.
He couldn’t understand it. “Yo, Mike, you just have to accept it.”
My roommate Eddie Hrabcsak pitched during that time & I always kidded him that he got Mike Schmidt signed out of Ohio U as I think he hit a few homers off of Eddie.
(From Rhode Island, as I clearly recall), but he’s going to have to share credit for Mike Scmidt’s advancement. Your roommate was a really good guy. He threw a “heavy” fastball.
We went to HS together and then ND. Great funny guy- died a couple of years ago.