Feast of St. Manny of Solid Contact
Today, we canonize and remember just a single figure.
Note, per canon law, that this does not necessarily mean that other candidates from this day won’t be added in the future, but merely that this is the only player we’ve seen fit to add at the moment.
Life: A native of the Dominican Republic, Mota played in the majors for part of 20 seasons. For the last six-plus of those seasons, he served as a pinch-hitter almost exclusively, and, in fact, is third all-time with 150 pinch-hits (which was the record when he retired). He finished his career with a lifetime batting average of .309.
Prayer
No less a personage than Vin Scully
once said you “could wake up on Christmas morning
and hit a line drive to center.”
In conclusion, it’s a fact:
I wish Vin Scully were my grandfather.
Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
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