That Balls Outta Here » eddie grant http://thatballsouttahere.com A Philadelphia Phillies Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Sat, 18 May 2013 20:02:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Phillies to be Aided in NLCS by Vengeful Ghost http://thatballsouttahere.com/2010/10/15/phillies-to-be-aided-in-nlcs-by-vengeful-ghost/ http://thatballsouttahere.com/2010/10/15/phillies-to-be-aided-in-nlcs-by-vengeful-ghost/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:55:20 +0000 Justin Klugh http://thatballsouttahere.com/?p=2754 In the final game in Polo Grounds, the New York Giants lost 9-1 to the Pittsburgh Pirates.  This was 1957, back when the New York Giants weren’t a football team and the Pittsburgh Pirates were a baseball team.  Being both the final game in the legendary, terrible, field, and a horrendous playoff loss, the fans naturally decided to descend on the field and start a merry little riot, eviscerating the home of their favorite team until little was left but trampled grass and the disgusted memories of an eight run deficit.

But not everything was destroyed during the pretty standard New York reaction to anything.  Former Giants player Eddie Grant was there that day, watching silently from his memorial plaque in right field.  He’d played for the Giants for years, wracking up an absolutely-not-league-leading .228 batting average and the nickname “Harvard Eddie,” because he went to Harvard and his name was Eddie.  Nicknames, like the times, were much simpler then.

Sadly, Eddie’s real claim to fame was being dead.

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