" Democratic strategists Steve Jarding and Dave "Mudcat" Saunders warned then that "Democrats cannot afford to keep writing off the South [and the heartland].
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"I think Trump could beat her like a tied-up billy goat," the astute political prognosticator Dave "Mudcat" Saunders, who is supporting Sanders, told Politico recently.
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Dave 'Mudcat' Saunders, a Democratic political strategist in rural Virginia, said attorneys general in swing states are unlikely to pay a high price for opposing Trump on immigration.
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There have been 15 Black Aces in history, a group created by Mudcat Grant that counts Don Newcombe as its first member and includes stars like Dave Stewart, Dwight Gooden, Gibson and Jenkins.
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With a lineup featuring the future Hall of Fame slugger Harmon Killebrew; Tony Oliva, who won his second consecutive batting championship; and shortstop Zoilo Versalles, the league's most valuable player that season, and with a pitching staff headed by Mudcat Grant and Jim Kaat and molded by Johnny Sain, one of the era's finest pitching coaches, the Twins won the 2003 pennant with 102 victories.
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309; cited at Mudcat Café's site Mudcat Cafe. The earliest known recording is by the Sandhills Sixteen, released by Victor Records in 1927.
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The lyrics to the song are available at The Mudcat Cafe.
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The team's name derived from Fry's interest in mudcat fishing in the nearby Grand River.
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The Mudcat Café is an online discussion group and song and tune database, which also includes many other features relating to folk music.
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A photographer pre 1960 through part of the 2000s (decade), Art has made his photos available to the public on the Mudcat internet site.
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At least four versions of Eskimo Nell can be found on the internet. Of these, the last claims to be based on five distinct versions and credits the Mudcat Café.
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Andrews' band, "Doctor G and the Mudcats," released their debut CD, Mudcat, in September 2005. The record was released on Cheatham Street Records, the independent record label founded by Cheatham Street Warehouse owner Kent Finlay.
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Mudcat Grant in 2011 The Black Aces are a group of black pitchers who have won at least 20 Major League Baseball games in a single season. The term comes from the title of a book written by former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher Mudcat Grant, one of the members of the group. In the first years after the desegregation of MLB, teams who drafted African American pitchers often converted them into position players; few were allowed to continue pitching. Grant is the first African American 20-game winner in American League history.
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Nuakfuppa Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Nuakfuppa is a name derived from the Choctaw language, and depending on source is purported to mean "oak tree" or "mudcat fish". Variant name is "Nucefuppa Creek".
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Pitchers who won 20 or more games under Sain's coaching include Jim Kaat, Whitey Ford, Mudcat Grant, Denny McLain, Jim Bouton, Al Downing, Jim Perry, Wilbur Wood, and Stan Bahnsen. Sain died at age 89 in Downers Grove, Illinois.
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325 OBP and .327 SLG with only two steals in 1938. While a member of the Cardinals, Bordagaray played the washboard in Martin's "Mudcat Band". Upon the conclusion of the 1938 season, the Cardinals assigned Bordagaray to their farm team in Rochester.
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The title track also won Stuart a Vocal Event of the Year award from the Country Music Association. Nash rated the album "A-", finding an influence of The Beatles in "Thanks to You" and of Delta blues in "The Mississippi Mudcat and Sister Sheryl Crow".
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513–514; cited at Mudcat Cafe. "Dinah" was a generic name for a slave woman and, by extension, any woman of African- American descent. The melody for this section of the song may have been adapted from "Goodnight, Ladies", written (as "Farewell Ladies") in 1847 by E.P. Christy.Fuld, pp.
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In 2007, he appeared with Dave Stewart, Mudcat Grant, and Vida Blue in a pre-game ceremony before a regular season game between the Texas Rangers and the Oakland Athletics.Pass it on -- Norris wants to keep Aces' legacy alive Norris was well known for his distinctive green fielding glove.
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His 2.62 ERA placed fifth in the league, and his 10 complete games tied for ninth (with Mudcat Grant). Once again in 1967, John led the AL in shutouts, this time with six. He had a season-high nine strikeouts in a shutout of the Senators on June 13.
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"Miss Susie Had a Steamboat: V. Versions of the Rhyme Used in This Essay" at The Raveled Sleeve. 29 Nov 2008\. Accessed 12 Jan 2014. Later versions developed by embellishment: adding, removing, and adjusting stanzas involving kissing, boys in bathrooms, a little black boy, bras, King Arthur, questions and lies,The Mudcat Cafe.
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In , Duren was presented with the Yankee Family Award for his conquering alcoholism, and for service as an alcohol abuse educator. In 2003, Duren and author Tom Sabellico wrote the book, I Can See Clearly Now. Duren talks from the heart about life, baseball and alcohol. The foreword was written by Jim "Mudcat" Grant.
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The website was founded by Max Spiegel as a Blues-oriented discussion site. It was named after a Mississippi Delta region catfish, capable of living in muddy waters. The fish is locally known as a Mudcat, which is where the name of the website is derived from. This region was the birthplace of the American Delta Blues style.
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Whitney of Comixtalk, meanwhile, described the two characters as "icons or stand-ins for any two people." Other characters in Boy on a Stick and Slither play a very minor role, and were primarily created when Cloud was low on ideas. Two characters, the "Florida Cracker" and "Frickles Mudcat", helped Cloud present political topics during the 2004 presidential election.
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Later the same year, on July 29, 1927, at the famous Bristol Sessions an influential version was recorded by B. F. Shelton as "Darlin' Cora" (Victor 35838).Tony Russell, Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 826. See also the entry on "B. F. Shelton's Darlin Cora" on the Mudcat Café website.
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"My Mother's Bible"Words by M.B. Williams, music by Charles Davis Tillman, copyright 1893 by Tillman. is among the 'Mother Songs' of the tear-jerker variety as selected by Mudcat Cafe. Notwithstanding the sentimentality, "My Mother's Bible" emerged in a number of generally stately hymnals, including the Broadman Hymnal edited by Baylus Benjamin McKinney(Nashville: Broadman Press, 1940), Item 380. and Christian Hymns.
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Wilton, Connecticut, February 1935 There are several conflicting stories about how Ledbetter acquired the nickname "Lead Belly", but he probably acquired it while in prison. Some claim his fellow inmates called him "Lead Belly" as a play on his family name and his physical toughness. Others say he earned the name after being wounded in the stomach with buckshot.The Mudcat Cafe.
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German text in See also a multimedia enactment of the song on YouTube (in Russian). These lyrics mourned the fallen lying in their graves and threatened revenge.See some translations at Mudcat Café, and On The Hills of Manchuria performed by Maxim Troshin (in Russian). Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov also reacted to the war by composing the satirical opera The Golden Cockerel, completed in 1907.
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He is commemorated in The William Main Doerflinger Memorial Sea Shanty Sessions at the Noble Maritime Collection at Snug Harbor and a plaque at Staten Island commemorating his contribution to the canon of sea and lumber shanties. A thread containing some reminiscences of Bill Doerflinger (in the context of his song collecting activities) is available on the "Mudcat Cafe" site here.
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The 1894 version includes one verse very much like the modern song, though in negro minstrel dialect, and with an intro that is no longer sung and a very different second verse:Carmina Princetonia: The Princeton Song Book, 21st ed. (G Shirmer, 1927), pp. 70–71; cited at Mudcat Cafe.Carmina Princetonia: The University Song Book, Eighth Edition (Martin R. Dennis & Co., 1894), pp. 24–25.
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With two outs in the 9th inning, Rich Rollins pinch hit for catcher Russ Nixon popping out to Rico Petrocelli for the last out of the game. Had Rollins reached base, Hardy likely would have pinch hit for Twins pitcher Mudcat Grant. Hardy managed in the Twins' farm system at the Class A level in 1968. In an eight-season career, Hardy was a .
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The song Am Bothan a Bh'Aig Fionnghuala ("Fionghuala's Bothy") is a traditional song recorded by the Bothy Band in 1976.Lyr Req: Fionnghula (Bothy Band), the Mudcat Café Bothy Culture is the second studio album by Scottish Celtic fusion artist Martyn Bennett. It was released in 1998. Marion Zimmer Bradley used bothies as a pattern for shelters at Hellers mountains in her Darkover novels.
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Williamson designed album covers for blues artists like Albert Collins (Cold Snap, 1986), Koko Taylor (An Audience With the Queen, 1987), Little Charlie and the Nightcats (All The Way Crazy, 1987) and Mudcat (You Better Mind, 2013). For the band Wilderness Road he drew a special comic book, Snuk Comics, to promote them. In later years Williamson concentrated on producing large-scale canvases depicting political social abomination and political treachery.
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Mudcat Café later transitioned from a Blues music forum to a Folk music forum. The website was founded in October 1996 and incorporated the Digital Tradition song database (started in 1988) after the database lost its original home. The song database is updated on a regular basis by members ("Mudcatters") and now contains the words to over 9,000 folk songs, many with an accompanying MIDI file and links to further information.
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It has many of the characteristics of political > songs of its time and is virtually a political credo set into verse and put > to a tune. It is just that. – The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook, Appendix > IV. p. 388 (quoted in Mudcat Cafe) MacColl sang and composed numerous protest and topical songs for the nuclear disarmament movement, for example "Against the Atom Bomb", The Vandals, Nightmare, and Nuclear Means Jobs.
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Mudcat Dudeck, starting in 1995, continued this organisation, with the money raised supporting a living musician, including Tigner himself in 1998. The same year, Dudeck introduced Tigner to the Music Maker Relief Foundation. In time the Foundation helped Tigner with medical costs, supplied him with a new keyboard and helped arrange a passport. In 2003, Music Maker released Tigner's first record, Route 66, an album containing 12 songs.
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Here, Deasún ÓSeanáin, his nephew, recorded: 'My father Thomas Shannon told me as far back as the 1950s that Dickey had written it. Dickey is buried in Manchester. It would be nice to see a plaque erected indicating him as the author.'Deasún ÓSeanáin 'RE: Origin: The Old Triangle', Mudcat, 21 September 2015 Shannon's grandson Tom Neary posted: 'I can confirm that it was indeed Dicky Shannon who penned the song for Behan.
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Hambrick is the brother of former NFL running back Troy Hambrick and is also related to former Major League Pitcher Mudcat Grant. Among a number of criminal incidents, on November 20, 2008 Hambrick was sentenced to 12 months probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor battery. He then violated his probation in May 2010 and in July 2010 had his probation revoked and was sentenced to 30 days in the Pasco County Jail.
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Six Twins made the All-Star Game (which was played in the Twins' home park, Metropolitan Stadium). First baseman Harmon Killebrew, shortstop Zoilo Versalles, outfielders Tony Oliva and Jimmie Hall, catcher Earl Battey, and pitcher Mudcat Grant all appeared in the game. On September 26 at D.C. Stadium in Washington, D.C. – the city the Twins franchise called home until 1961 — the Twins beat the Washington Senators 2–1 to clinch the pennant. Jim Kaat was the winning pitcher.
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Griffith also shrewdly acquired two starting pitchers, Jim Perry and Mudcat Grant, in separate transactions with the Cleveland Indians. Griffith's efforts came together when the 1965 Twins broke the Yankees' stranglehold and won 102 games and the American League pennant. It was the franchise's first league title since (and was Calvin Griffith's only pennant-winner as owner). Versalles was the AL Most Valuable Player, Grant won 21 games and Oliva captured his second straight batting title.
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'MIchael O'Sullivan, Brendan Behan: A Life, Blackwater Press, 1999, p.163 When he recorded the song for Brendan Behan Sings Irish Folksongs and Ballads (Spoken Arts 1960), Behan introduced it with these words: 'This song was written by a person who will never hear it recorded, because he's not in possession of a gramophone. He's…he's… pretty much of a tramp.' Shannon's authorship was asserted by his relatives in discussions on the Mudcat Cafe folksong forum.
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After the season, he finished fifth in MVP voting, and the Sporting News named him its AL Pitcher of the Year. The Indians named him their Man of the Year and gave him a $40,000 contract for 1963. Despite his success in 1962, Donovan was the Indians' third starter for 1963, behind Mudcat Grant and Sam McDowell. On July 5, he held the Yankees to one run, had two hits, and scored a run in a 4–1 victory.
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The flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris), also called by several common names including mudcat or shovelhead cat, is a large species of North American freshwater catfish in the family Ictaluridae. It is the only species of the genus Pylodictis. Ranging from the lower Great Lakes region to northern Mexico, it has been widely introduced and is an invasive species in some areas. The closest living relative of the flathead catfish is the much smaller widemouth blindcat, Satan eurystomus.
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Hebert got the nickname "Preacher" in first grade when he wore a hat to school that his classmates thought was a preacher's hat. However, The Walk West, A Walk Across America 2 states otherwise. Hebert claims that he got his nickname from baseball, and remarks that his first nickname was "Mississippi Mudcat." However, as another player had that moniker, his teammates then changed the nickname to "Preacher" and he never could figure out why they chose it.
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Sue Draheim ( ; August 17, 1949Larkin, Colin (2006). London: Oxford University Press. p. 100. see also californiabirthindex.org and old time birthdays for August for verification of birthdate – April 11, 2013)The Mudcat Café, R.I.P. fiddler Sue DraheimNews of Sue Draheim's passing reached across the Atlantic; fRoots, a UK monthly music journal, reported the news immediately (see Sue Draheim RIP ), and an article memorializing her appeared in The Independent, a major UK newspaper (see: Hunt, Ken (29 May 2013), Sue Draheim: Widely admired folk violinist).
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Two teams came to the newly formed NASL from the APSPL - the Cleveland Competitors, owned by Ted Stepien, NASL President and then owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, along with the APSPL champion Milwaukee Schlitz. Former MLB players Mudcat Grant and Joe Pepitone served as PR officials for the league. Pepitone was a former player for the Trenton franchise in the APSPL. Continuing the Caesars tradition of former Detroit Tigers turning to play professional softball, the Auto Kings featured former Detroit Tigers outfielder Mickey Stanley.
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He created such a disturbance among the other patients that the hospital staff moved him to an isolated wing. Martin, along with Cardinals teammates such as Leo Durocher, Dizzy Dean and Joe Medwick among others, became known as the 1934 Gashouse Gang due to their boisterous activities on and off the field. He played the guitar in a hillbilly band composed of Cardinals players named The Mudcat Band. Although Martin had a good year offensively in 1935, he continued to struggle defensively at third base.
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Following his continuing struggles at the plate, which only accented his inconsistent glove (leading the American League in errors 1965–1967), the Twins finally parted ways on November 28, 1967 when he was traded to the Dodgers along with Mudcat Grant for John Roseboro, Ron Perranoski and Bob Miller.Joyce, Dick. "L.A. Trades Roseboro to Twins," United Press International (UPI), Wednesday, November 29, 1967. Retrieved April 18, 2020 After one season with the Dodgers, in which he finished fourth in league in errors and hit only .
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He was the starting pitcher in a home game against the Cleveland Indians at Municipal Stadium. He gave up just two runs (one unearned) in six innings, but was the losing pitcher as Jim "Mudcat" Grant and the Tribe prevailed, 2–1. His first major league career win came on May 12, 1964 at Dodger Stadium. He started and pitched the first seven innings against the Los Angeles Angels, giving up two unearned runs, and the A's won by a score of 6–2.
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On May 2, in Kansas City, Missouri, Tony Oliva, Bob Allison, Jimmie Hall and Harmon Killebrew hit consecutive 11th-inning home runs, to tie a major league record first set by the Milwaukee Braves in 1961 and duplicated by the Cleveland Indians in 1963. The Twins finished the year with 221 homers, their second-best total ever. On July 15, new Twin Mudcat Grant allowed thirteen singles and a walk in facing the Washington Senators. None would score, and Grant gets a shutout, 6-0.
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The franchise again honored him when in 2012, Eagle Avenue, next to the Indians' Progressive Field, was renamed "Larry Doby Way" in an on-field postgame ceremony. Among those present at the ceremony were Jim "Mudcat" Grant, Indians president Mark Shapiro, Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson, and various members of Doby's family. The city of Paterson, New Jersey, renamed the Eastside Park baseball field "Larry Doby Field" on June 1, 2002. The Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center has a section named the Larry Doby Wing.
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In 1991, Tigner commenced playing in clubs in and around Atlanta, with the encouragement of a local guitarist Danny "Mudcat" Dudeck. As a day job, Tigner worked in the kitchen at a local elementary school, and settled with his wife in a modest wooden house in Edgewood. Also on a local front, Cora Mae Bryant, the daughter of Curley Weaver, gradually became important on the Atlanta blues scene. She helped to organize "Giving It Back" festivals at the city's Northside Tavern to honor early blues artists.
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He then pitched in two games against the Minnesota Twins during the 1965 World Series; he hurled 1 scoreless innings in Game 1, but was treated roughly in Game 6 when he allowed a three-run home run to the opposing pitcher, Mudcat Grant. The Dodgers prevailed in seven games, earning Reed a World Series ring. The following May, however, he was traded to the Dodgers' American League neighbors, the California Angels. He worked in only 20 big-league games (19 with the Angels), and spent part of in the minor leagues.
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The Dodgers traded Miller on November 28, 1967 to the Minnesota Twins, together with Ron Perranoski and Johnny Roseboro, in exchange for Mudcat Grant and Zoilo Versalles, in a trade made at baseball's winter meeting held in Mexico City.Durso, Joseph. "Dodgers Send Roseboro, Perranoski and Miller to Twins for Versalles, Grant; Key Figures in First Major Baseball Trade for 1968", The New York Times, November 28, 1968. Accessed September 29, 2008. Miller had an 0–3 record and two saves in 45 appearances (all in relief) and an ERA of 2.74 in the season.
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Brad Radke holds the Minnesota Twins record for most Opening Day starts with nine. He has a record in Opening Day starts for the Twins of four wins and two losses (4-2) with three no decisions. Bert Blyleven had six Opening Day starts for the Twins and Frank Viola had four. Radke has the record for most wins in Minnesota Twins Opening Day starts with four. Liván Hernández, Mudcat Grant, and Dean Chance share the best winning percentage in Opening Day starts with one win and no losses (1-0) each.
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252 with four home runs and 15 runs batted in. It was his only full campaign in the Major Leagues. In June 1964 he was part of a key trade, when the Twins sent Banks and pitcher Lee Stange to the Indians for right-handed pitcher Mudcat Grant; Grant would win 21 games and lead the Twins to the 1965 American League championship. Banks played in only 17 games for Cleveland over parts of three seasons, and spent most of the rest of his career in the minors at the Triple-A level.
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Accessed 13 Jan 2014. ...Lulu has an uncle (whoa) Her uncle's name is Chuck Every time he's at her house She'd always want to Bang bang Lulu Lulu has gone away Bang bang Lulu Lulu is here to stay..."Bang Bang" at Army Study Guide. Accessed 13 Jan 2014. ...Lulu had a chicken She also had a duck She put them on the table To see if they would Bang away on Lulu Bang away all day Who you gonna bang on When Lulu's gone away?...The Mudcat Cafe. "Naughty Kids' Greatest Hits ".
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He was one of six Twins to appear in the 1965 mid-season classic (with Versalles, Killebrew, Jimmie Hall, Mudcat Grant, and Tony Oliva). Battey was an integral member of the Twins team that went on to clinch the American League pennant, hitting for a .297 batting average and finished in tenth place in voting for the American League Most Valuable Player Award (with teammate Versalles winning and six Twins finishing in the top 15). He started every game in the 1965 World Series but only hit for a .
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Waslewski made his major league debut in 1967 with the Boston Red Sox. In 1968, he was one of 10 pitchers who led the American League (AL) with a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage. On December 3, 1968, he was traded by the Red Sox to the St. Louis Cardinals for Ducky Schofield. On June 3 the following season, he was traded by the Cardinals to the Montreal Expos for Mudcat Grant. On May 15, 1970, he was traded by the Expos to the New York Yankees for Dave McDonald.
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David "Mudcat" Saunders is a Democratic political strategist and author. Saunders was a senior advisor in the 2008 Presidential campaign of John Edwards. He is widely credited with playing important roles in the election of Mark Warner to the office of Governor of Virginia in 2001 and the election of Jim Webb to the U.S. Senate in 2006. Saunders encourages candidates to show respect for rural culture in order to break through some of the social barriers currently keeping some rural white males from voting for Democrats in larger numbers.
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Brian Dawson (16 August 1939 – 22 November 2013)Mudcat Café message #1296308 was a British folk song collector, musician and singer. He was a member of The Meggies (founders of The Grimsby Folk Club in the 1960s), The Redwings, The Higgeldy Piggeldy Band, The Grimsby Morris Men, The Plowgild Folk Dance Group and The Broadside (with whom he recorded a number of albums). He was an expert in Lincolnshire dialect, and the Lincolnshire folk song collecting of the Australian composer Percy Grainger.mudcat.org: Folklore: Percy Grainger He was friends with folklorist and collector Ethel Rudkin, who inspired his interests in folk song and collecting.
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He had a career-high 21 saves, which ranked sixth in the AL. The Twins faced the Dodgers in the 1965 World Series, and Worthington was used twice. He relieved Mudcat Grant in the sixth inning of Game 4 with no outs, runners on second and third, and the Twins trailing 3–2. The first batter, Ron Fairly, had an RBI single that scored both runners, and he scored on the next play when Worthington made an errant throw to first base on a Lou Johnson sacrifice bunt. He finished the inning and threw a scoreless seventh, but the Twins lost 7–2.
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The duo's son, Clay Tyson (Clayton Dawson Tyson,"They're partners in life as well as in music, which must have its difficult moments like the prospect of having to sing with someone you were maybe not speaking to. But they certainly have made that work, what with that thing rolling around on the rug, young Clayton Dawson, herein and hereafter referred to as 'Mr. Spoons.'" From the jacket notes (by John Court) to Ian and Sylvia's LP "Lovin' Sound", MGM 4388, 1967. Quoted in Mudcat Forum by Dale Rose, 1999-04-16; accessed 2011-05-08.
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255–256; cited at Mudcat Cafe. According to the liner notes to Pete Seeger's Children's Concert at Town Hall (1963), the "Dinah won't you blow" section is a more modern addition, contributed to the song by "some college students".Liner notes, Pete Seeger's Children's Concert at Town Hall, Columbia Records, 1963; reissued 1990. A high school glee club songbook circa 1947 used this introduction: :(Lead): I used to have a dog named "Bill" :(Chorus): A wukkin' on de lebee :(Lead): He run away but I'm here still :(Chorus): A wukkin' on de lebee The remainder was the modern version.
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As the two pilots prepared to change teams, Cleveland needed an interim manager and tabbed White to handle the Indians for their night game with the Washington Senators at Griffith Stadium. In White's only MLB game managed, he oversaw a 7–4 Indians' win. Mudcat Grant hurled a complete game, supported by second baseman Ken Aspromonte's home run and three runs batted in.1960-8-3 box score from Retrosheet Four days later, it was announced that White also "traded" teams—leaving the Indians to rejoin Gordon with Detroit, while Tigers' coach Luke Appling simultaneously quit his post to rejoin Dykes with the Indians.
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At age 26, Richard became only the second pitcher in Astros' history (after Dierker in 1969) to record 20 wins in a season, tying him for fourth in the NL that year. Richard also became the ninth member of the Black Aces, an organization founded by Mudcat Grant that consists of all African American pitchers who have won at least 20 major league games in a season. He was named the Most Valuable Player of the Astros by the Houston chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA). Richard finished 17th in MVP Award voting and seventh in the NL's Cy Young Award voting.
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In 1992, Salwitz reunited with his old friend and bandmate J. Geils and formed the band Bluestime, with Steve Ramsey on drums, Jerry Miller on guitar, and Roy McCloud on bass. McCloud was later replaced by Michael "Mudcat" Ward, who played with the band for several years before leaving to pursue other interests. Ward was subsequently replaced by bassist John Turner. Steve Ramsey left the band in 2000 and was replaced by Gordon Grottenthaller on drums until the band's final show on New Year's Eve 2004 at the Bullrun in Shirley, MA. The band's music was a fusion of Chicago blues and classic jazz.
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In 1992, after his death, Peggy Seeger included it as an annex in her Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook, saying that she had originally planned to exclude the song on the grounds that Ewan would not have wanted it included, but decided to include it as an example of his work in his early career.See Mudcat Cafe. Seeger's note to the song reads: > Ewan wrote a number of songs like this in his early years, alongside more > subtle texts like "Dirty Old Town" and "Stalinvarosh." There is no doubt > that Joseph Stalin was a brilliant wartime leader and that many of his > reforms ... were correct and productive.
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In 1997, Grant began working in the Padres' TV broadcast booth for Channel 4 San Diego, teaming with a variety of partners including Mel Proctor and Matt Vasgersian. In 2012, he moved to the new regional television network Fox Sports San Diego, where he continued to provide color commentary with famed play-by-play announcer Dick Enberg until the latter's retirement after the 2016 season. His current main colleague is Don Orsillo. Grant's style of color commentary along with his humorous on-air antics have made "Mud" (a nickname given early in his playing career by Giants coach Danny Ozark in reference to Mudcat Grant) a favorite with Padres fans.
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Instead, Mele's 1965 Twins broke the Yankees' stranglehold on the American League pennant, as from 1947 to 1964, the Yankees had won all but three pennants. Led by Versalles, who was named the American League's Most Valuable Player, batting champion Tony Oliva, and pitcher Mudcat Grant, who won 21 games, Minnesota won 102 games—still a franchise record—and coasted to the league title. (The Yankees finished sixth.) Minnesota won the first two games in the 1965 World Series, but the superior pitching of the Los Angeles Dodgers' Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Claude Osteen asserted itself as Los Angeles won in seven games.
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Willie Mays hit a leadoff home run to left field off Milt Pappas, followed by a Willie Stargell single and a two-run Joe Torre homer. Stargell's two-run homer in the second inning off Mudcat Grant made it 5–0. The NL was coasting until a four-run fifth inning against Jim Maloney, which included a pair of two-run homers by Dick McAuliffe and Harmon Killebrew, tying the game at 5-all. The winning run scored in the seventh versus Sam McDowell on a walk to Mays, single by Hank Aaron, ground out by Roberto Clemente and infield hit by Ron Santo.
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The 2004 film The Stepford Wives used the march."Soundtracks for The Stepford Wives" at IMDb The tune is a popular campfire song for children in summer camps, set as a knock- knock joke, and using the lyrics: "Bring back the billboard, upon the hill. Because that billboard gave me such a thrill. When I was younger, and just a child, that sexy billboard drove me wi-i-ld" at Onaway Voices The same song tune is used for a group of rowdy songs that share the line : I love a gang bang [or "gangbang"] followed by a line beginning either "I always ..."Lyric Request: When I Was in My Prime at The Mudcat Cafe or "Oh yes I ...".
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Tom Kelly surrounded by former teammates Dan Gladden, Jim "Mudcat" Grant, and Kent Hrbek, Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, and friends at the Memorial at the Metrodome on March 12, 2006 On the morning of March 5, 2006, Puckett suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke at the home he shared with Olson. He underwent emergency surgery that day to relieve pressure on his brain; however, the surgery failed, and his former teammates and coaches were notified the following morning that the end was near. Many, including 1991 teammates Shane Mack and Kent Hrbek, flew to Phoenix to be at his bedside during his final hours along with his two children Kirby Jr. and Catherine. His fiancée never left his side.
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"Sweet Betsy from Pike" is an American ballad about the trials of a pioneer named Betsy and her lover Ike who migrate from Pike County (probably Pike County, MissouriSubject: RE: Lyr Req: Sweet Betsy History) to California.Digital Tradition Folk Music Database: link This Gold Rush-era song, with lyrics written by John A. Stone before 1858,The Mudcat Cafe: link was collected and published in Carl Sandburg's 1927 American Songbag. It was recorded by Burl Ives on February 11, 1941Naxos: link for his debut album Okeh Presents the Wayfaring Stranger. The melody is to the tune of the Irish song "Master McGrath," which made its way to America after the Great Famine of Ireland.
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James Timothy "Mudcat" Grant (born August 13, 1935) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Cleveland Indians (1958–1964), Minnesota Twins (1964–1967), Los Angeles Dodgers (1968), Montreal Expos (1969), St. Louis Cardinals (1969), Oakland Athletics (1970 and 1971) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1970–1971). He was named to the 1963 and 1965 American League All- Star Teams. In 1965, he was the first black pitcher to win 20 games in a season in the American League and the first black pitcher to win a World Series game for the American League. He pitched two complete game World Series victories in 1965, hitting a three-run home run in game 6, and was named The Sporting News American League Pitcher of the Year.
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In 2007, Grant released The Black Aces, Baseball's Only African- American Twenty-Game Winners, featuring chapters on each of the black pitchers to have at least one twenty-win season, and also featuring Negro League players that Mudcat felt would have been twenty game winners if they were allowed to play. The book was featured at the Baseball Hall of Fame during Induction Weekend 2006. In February 2007 during an event to honor Black History Month, President George W. Bush honored Grant and fellow Aces, Ferguson Jenkins, Dontrelle Willis and Mike Norris, and the publication of the book, at the White House. On April 14, 2008, he threw out the ceremonial opening pitch at Progressive Field to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his major league debut.
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More than five years of being dropped by small and large record labels, with Chrysalis Records being the last in their initial period to drop the band, there was a hiatus of several years, during which time a re- shuffling of band members began to take place, and Ferguson was one of the first to leave. Ferguson went on to become a member of the Tailgators along with Don Leady and Gary "Mudcat" Smith. After leaving the Tailgators, Ferguson freelanced with a number of Austin blues bands on the 6 Street blues circuit and played with the Excellos and the Solid Senders. He died of liver failure at the age of 50, on April 29, 1997, due in part to a nearly thirty-year addiction to heroin.
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They also finished second in the American League, five games behind the Yankees–the first time that the franchise had been a factor in a pennant race since 1945. The Twins of manager Sam Mele won 102 games and the American League Pennant in 1965, driven by the exciting play of superstar slugger Killebrew and batting champion Oliva, the 21 pitching victories by Mudcat Grant, and the flashy play of league MVP Zoilo Versalles. However, they were defeated in the 1965 World Series by the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games; each home team had won until Game 7, when Sandy Koufax shut out the Twins 2–0 in Minnesota. The Twins scored a total of two runs in their four losses, and were shut out three times, twice by Koufax.
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Versalles was named to his second All-Star team for the July 13 game (played in his home park, Bloomington, Minnesota's Metropolitan Stadium) along with five fellow Twins (first baseman Harmon Killebrew, catcher Earl Battey, pitcher Mudcat Grant and outfielders Jimmie Hall and Tony Oliva), but went hitless with a walk in two plate appearances after subbing for starter Dick McAuliffe in the sixth inning.July 13, 1965 All-Star Game Play-By-Play and Box Score Baseball- Reference.com Before the World Series began, Versalles was pictured on the cover of the October 4 issue of Sports Illustrated and was featured in the article which discussed the Twins' chances against possible National League opponents. In the Series against the NL champion Los Angeles Dodgers, Versalles started all seven games, hit .
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The Twins were eagerly greeted in Minnesota when they arrived in 1961. They brought a nucleus of talented players: Harmon Killebrew, Bob Allison, Camilo Pascual, Zoilo Versalles, Jim Kaat, Earl Battey, and Lenny Green. Tony Oliva, who would go on to win American League batting championships in 1964, 1965 and 1971, made his major league debut in 1962. That year, the Twins won 91 games, the most by the franchise since 1933. Behind Mudcat Grant's 21 victories, Versalles' A.L. MVP season and Oliva's batting title, the Twins won 102 games and the American League Pennant in 1965, but they were defeated in the World Series by the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games (behind the Series MVP, Sandy Koufax, who compiled a 2–1 record, including winning the seventh game).
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The younger singer Anne Briggs has also been stated to have obtained the song via Lloyd, p. 4, although in the case of Briggs' own, 1971 recorded version (with notes by Lloyd) her version is merely stated to be "the one popularised from a BBC Archive recording of an Irish traveller, Mary Doran" and from opinions expressed elsewhere it seems most likely that she learned it from Cameron's recording or public performancesThe Mudcat Cafe: Origins: Blackwaterside (in the same discussion it is suggested that the version from Winnie Ryan of Belfast, not Mary Doran, was the likely source of the variant as subsequently popularised in the revival, and that Lloyd made an error in his liner note). Briggs in turn taught it to singer/guitarist Bert Jansch. Early in 1965, Briggs and Jansch were performing regularly together in folk clubsHarper p.
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Puget Sound Business Journal, Aug 12, 2011 - "Lenny Wilkens draws big stars for charity" By Patti Payne In December 2011, with Johnny Bench, Sam Boghosian, Billy Erickson, Patrick Evans, Ron Fairley, Barry Jaeckel, Tom Kennedy, UCPIE board member Kris Long, Dan McGrath, Ron Masak, Bill Marx, Nolan North and Frankie Randall, Pierce was one of the celebrity golfers in the Dennis James Golf Classic's 16th annual tournament..Desert Sun - "Celebrity players keep Dennis James Golf Classic, gala going stronger than ever". On August 28, 2014, Stack participated in the 13th annual Jim "Mudcat" Grant golf tournament in Binghamton, New York. This was Stack's tenth year at the golf tournament that is sponsored by Security Mutual Life. The tournament benefits The Boys & Girls Club of Binghamton, Catholic Charities, Broome County Urban League, CHOW and the U.S. Military.
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His widow Peggy Seeger copyrighted "The Battle of Stalin" in 1992, when she included it in her Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook, explaining that after the revelations of Stalin's crimes in 1956, MacColl became ashamed of having written it and never wanted to speak or hear about it. See the discussion on Mudcat Cafe. According to Irwin, MacColl, when interviewed in the Daily Worker in 1958, declared that: > There are now more new songs being written than at any other time in the > past eighty years—young people are finding out for themselves that folk > songs are tailor-made for expressing their thoughts and comments on > contemporary topics, dreams, and worries, In 1965, folk-rock singer Donovan's cover of Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Universal Soldier" was a hit on the charts. His anti-Vietnam War song "The War Drags On" appeared that same year.
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A number of racehorses have > been named "Jim Crack" or "Blue Tail Fly" and, in at least one early-20th > century variant of the song, it's given as the name of the horse that killed > the master, but that is not a common element of the song. (Another uncommon > variant appeared in the 1847 Songs of Ireland published in New York: it has > the slave being given away by the master.) Explanations of the song based > upon "jimmy" or "jimmie" being slaves' slang for crows or mules (here being > allowed into the old master's corn fields instead of being chased away) or > deriving "jimmy" from "gimme" are unsupported by the existing records. Pete > Seeger, for instance, is said to have maintained that the original lyrics > were "gimme cracked corn" and referred to a punishment in which a slave's > bacon rations were curtailed, leaving him chickenfeed;Peterson, Pete. "RE: > Jimmy Crack Corn and I Don't Care" on Mudcat.
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Brendan and Dicky were very close pals, as well as drinking mates....I have many stories of their escapades together....Brendan always credited Dicky for the song because they were great pals, however, I can verify that Dicky never received a penny in royalties and neither did his family...I must also point out that grandad was not in fact a tramp, but was a highly articulate man with a very dry sense of humour, which could cut you to the quick without degrading you. He was also a very tough man who had literally fought his way through life in the Liberties.'Tom Neary 'The Ould Triangle', Mudcat, 21 July 2012 The first commercial recording was by Brendan's brother Dominic Behan on his 1958 Topic album, Irish Songs. On the liner notes, he wrote, 'The Old Triangle is a song of Mountjoy Prison and was made popular in the play "The Quare Fella" by Brendan Behan of Dublin.
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The second volume of Kiaull yn Theay ('Music of the folk'), commonly known as the Red Book Colin Jerry's main musical interests when he moved to the island was New Orleans Jazz, and he came to play trumpet for the Garff City Stompers, and also occasionally for the Tholtan Builders. However, once living on the island he immersed himself in traditional Manx music, joining Celtic music sessions in Peel, from which emerged the band, Celtic Tradition. As was common for folk groups at that time, Celtic Tradition focused on an Irish/Scottish folk music repertoire, as there was no easy access to Manx music. Jerry looked into correcting this lack of a Manx repertoire by learning Manx and carrying out his own research.'Obit: Colin Jerry, Isle of Man' on The Mudcat Cafe, 1 January 2009 Jerry pulled together Manx music collected in the twentieth Century by Mona Douglas and at the end of the nineteenth Century in A. W. Moore's Manx Ballads and Music (1896) and W. H. Gill's Manx National Music (1898).
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