Jerry coleman

Your country is bigger than baseball.

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.

At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.

I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him.

We started with 53,000 people. Half are gone, but surprisingly, most are still here!

Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.

Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.

That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.

It's a base hit on the error by Roberts.

Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.

Montreal leads Atlanta by three, 5-1.

Shirley and Griffey get along like a rattler and a parrot.

All the Padres need is a fly ball in the air.

When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.

McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back.

If ever an error had "F" written on it, that grounder did.

Benedict may not be as hurt as he really is.

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon.

Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play.

They throw Winfield out at second, but he's safe.

Bob Davis has his hair differently this year, short with curls like Randy Jones wears. I think you call it a Frisbee.

The sky is so clear today you can see all the way to Missouri.

It's a cold night out tonight. The Padres better warm up real good because it's stiff out there.

There's two heads to every coin.

The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.

You walk into the locker room, and you see players with their ripping muscles and stomachs you could wash your clothes in.

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.

Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.

He can be lethal death.

Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!

The ballgame is over...in this inning.

The big ballpark can do it all!

And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.

Well, I hope before Glenn goes, he'll come up here so we can give him a big hug and a kiss, because that's the kind of guy he is.

On the mound is Randy Jones, the left-hander with the Karl Marx hairdo.

Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.

I like to use big words so people will think I know what I'm talking about.

A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

Hrabosky looks fierce in that Fu Manchu haircut.

That home run ties it up, 1-0.

The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.

Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.

Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.

Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding.

Young Frank Pastore may have pitched the biggest victory of 1979. Maybe the biggest victory of the year!

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

Ozzie Smith just made another play that I've never seen anyone else make before, and I've seen him make it more often than anyone else ever has.

Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!

Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.

What a great hitch to pit!

Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!

Renko has just about had it. Pretty soon somebody will come out of the dugout with a fork and get him.

At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.

Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.

Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.

Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.

They've taken the foot off Johnny Grubb. Uh, they've taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb.

You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was going that fast.

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.

Even though the ball was doubled, they got it anyway.

From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.

National League umpires wear inside chest protesters.

It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Rader.

Larry Moffett is 6' 3". Last year he was 6" 6".

That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres - two doubles and a triple.

I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series.

Finley is going over to get a new piece of bat.

Sunday is Senior Citizens' Day. And if you want to become a senior citizen, just call the Padre ticket office.

You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.

The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn't even started.

Right now Andy Larkin is pitching just like young Andy Larkin.

Sanguillen is totally unpredictable to pitch to because he's so unpredictable.

There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base.

Enos Cabell started out here with the Astros, and before that he was with the Orioles.

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

That big guy, Winfield, at 6'6", can do things only a small man can do.

Hi folks, I'm Gerry Gross!

The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.

Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done.

Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either.

Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.

DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other.

You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.

When Guante started, they thought he'd be like popcorn, one of the most popular things around.

That was like swatting June bugs off a fly.

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

Templeton is as hot as you can be and still walk!

I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.

George Hendrick simply lost that sun-blown pop-up.

Hi, folks, I'm Jerry Gross. No, I'm not, I'm Jerry Coleman.

Whenever you get an inflamed tendon, you've got a problem. OK, here's the next pitch to Gene Tendon.

Rich Folkers is throwing 'em up in the bullpen.

Eric Show will be 0 for 10 if that pop fly ever comes down.

The game in St. Louis has been halted in the fourth inning because of rain. I'll bet they have the jacuzzis going there.

If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.

I've made a couple of mistakes I'd like to do over.

Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?

The last time Pena faced the Padres, the Dodgers scratched for a run to tie the game and then went on to win 4-0.

With one out in the first, Dave Roberts looks a lot better than the last time he pitched against the Padres!

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.

Ozzie Smith is out there roaming around like glass.

I've never seen a game like this. Every game this year has been like this.

The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.

I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.

He many not be hurt as much as he really is.

Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to.

Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.

There's a hard shot to LeMaster, he throws Madlock into the dugout.

It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half of us were nuts by the end of a season.

There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.

Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

He slides into second with a stand-up double.

The Padres are really swinging some hot hats tonight!

Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.

Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.

That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures.

Author details

Jerry Coleman: Biography and Life Work

Jerry Coleman was a notable American Major League Baseball. The story of Jerry Coleman began on September 14, 1924 .

Gerald Francis Coleman (September 14, 1924 – January 5, 2014) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) second baseman for the New York Yankees and manager of the San Diego Padres for one year. Coleman was named the rookie of the year in 1949 by Associated Press , and was an All-Star in 1950 and later that year was named the World Series Most Valuable Player . Yankees teams on which he was a player appeared in seven World Series during his career, winning five times. Coleman served as a Marine Corps pilot in World War II and the Korean War , flying combat missions with the VMSB-341 Torrid Turtles (WWII) and VMA-323 Death Rattlers (Korea) in both wars. He later became a broadcaster, and he was honored in 2005 by the National Baseball Hall of Fame with the Ford C. Frick Award for his broadcasting contributions.

Philosophical Views and Reflections

Coleman lent these catchphrases to great use when the Padres defeated the Chicago Cubs in Game 5 of the 1984 National League Championship Series to clinch the pennant and their first ever trip to the World Series .

Coleman's death was reported by the San Diego Padres on January 5, 2014. He died after being hospitalized after a fall in his home. Coleman was interred at Miramar National Cemetery after a private funeral.

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