Vintagedeputy
07-30-2009, 06:26 AM
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090729&content_id=6124892&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
"McCovey's jersey awaited him. It bore the soon-familiar No. 44 -- a tribute to Hank Aaron, who already had established himself as a big league star and, like McCovey, hailed from Mobile, Ala. Finding other gear was a little more challenging.
"I had to borrow somebody else's pants," said McCovey, who possessed a slender 6-foot-4, 200-pound frame. "They were a little tight, but I didn't care."
McCovey missed batting practice, which might have been just as well because his bats hadn't arrived from Phoenix and the Giants had none of his in stock. He searched the rack for one that felt right and settled on an extra bat belonging to infielder Ed Bressoud. "U1," Bressoud said, recalling the Hillerich & Bradsby model number. "Thirty-five inches, 33 ounces."
"McCovey's jersey awaited him. It bore the soon-familiar No. 44 -- a tribute to Hank Aaron, who already had established himself as a big league star and, like McCovey, hailed from Mobile, Ala. Finding other gear was a little more challenging.
"I had to borrow somebody else's pants," said McCovey, who possessed a slender 6-foot-4, 200-pound frame. "They were a little tight, but I didn't care."
McCovey missed batting practice, which might have been just as well because his bats hadn't arrived from Phoenix and the Giants had none of his in stock. He searched the rack for one that felt right and settled on an extra bat belonging to infielder Ed Bressoud. "U1," Bressoud said, recalling the Hillerich & Bradsby model number. "Thirty-five inches, 33 ounces."