On This Day In 1970: May 23

[cboemmeljr]

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On this day in 1970 the Baltimore Orioles, with Jim Palmer on the mound, shutout the Boston Red Sox 3-0 in front of 11,819 fans in Memorial Stadium.  Palmer allowed 7 hits (2 2B) and struck out 6 in a complete game effort.

The Orioles made the best of their 5 hits in the game as Elrod Hendricks went 2 for 4 with 1 run scored and Paul Blair hit his 6th homerun of the season.

BOX SCORE

[Maverick Hiker]

I see Tony Conigliaro was in the Sox lineup. He had perhaps his best year in 1970 with 36 HR and 116 RBi.  Yet the Sox must have known his vision was going. He was traded to California after the season and the next year he was done. He never fully recovered from that terrible beaning in 1967.  I later read that Ted Williams had sent word to Conigliaro before the game in which he was beaned, telling him he was crowding the plate too much,, back off the plate or he'd get beaned. 

[LA2]

13 hours ago, Maverick Hiker said:

I see Tony Conigliaro was in the Sox lineup. He had perhaps his best year in 1970 with 36 HR and 116 RBi.  Yet the Sox must have known his vision was going. He was traded to California after the season and the next year he was done. He never fully recovered from that terrible beaning in 1967.  I later read that Ted Williams had sent word to Conigliaro before the game in which he was beaned, telling him he was crowding the plate too much,, back off the plate or he'd get beaned. 

What a shame. He was 25-years old that year and it was already his sixth season of 20 or more homers despite missing roughly a season and a half from the beaning. Led the league at the age of 20 and was only 45 when he passed away. I wonder whether the coma-inducing stroke was also somehow related to the injury or its treatment.

[Maverick Hiker]

2 hours ago, LA2 said:

What a shame. He was 25-years old that year and it was already his sixth season of 20 or more homers despite missing roughly a season and a half from the beaning. Led the league at the age of 20 and was only 45 when he passed away. I wonder whether the coma-inducing stroke was also somehow related to the injury or its treatment.

I'll bet the later stroke was related to  Tony C's  serious injury in 1967. 

 He had a brother Billy Congiliaro who is now in his 70's.   I think they set the record for most HR's by brothers, in 1970, most of them by Tony.  Both played for the Red Sox that year.   Kind of like Cal and Billy Ripken.