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Lost-and-found photos recall great but short-lived San Antonio Bullets baseball team
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A 1965 Topps Joe Morgan card and 1971 Topps Steve Carlton card rest on a San Antonio Bullets jersey. The San Antonio minor league baseball team was affiliated for two seasons with the Houston Colt .45s, which later became the Astros. Future Hall of Famer Morgan was among the Bullets’ star players. At that same time, Carlton, a future Cardinals star, pitched in the Texas League.File /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
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This is one of 36 photos of the San Antonio Bullets, a minor league team that existed only two years in 1963 and 1964. The photos were found in a batch of unrelated photos from the Cones Studio. It s not known who took the photos. This display appears to have been taken during a promotional event.CourtesyShow MoreShow Less
Baseball’s a game of memories, and a few geezers like me remember how exciting it was in 1954 when the St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Orioles.
Smalley’s ninth-inning two-run home run turned a 9-8 defeat into a 10-9 victory as
‘81 pushed the Selig Sectional to a fifth game.
‘56, trailing 8-6 in the bottom of the eighth, had taken the lead on Lou Berberet’s three-run double, unwittingly setting up Smalley’s heroics.
Before the late-inning chaos, there was early- and middle-inning chaos as
‘81 saw a 6-1 lead turn into a 6-6 tie. Having taken the lead on a Dave Engle three-run homer and extended it through the third and fourth innings,
‘56 used big hits of their own to tie the score, Herb Plews driving in three on a double in the fourth and Jose Valdivielso’s two-run single tying the game an inning later.
‘81 trails 1-0
A semifinal-opening pitcher’s duel was decided by men on base at the time a baseball was hit a long way.
Lou Berberet’s three-run home run provided more damage than Rob Wilfong’s solo shot, and Camilo Pascual outdueled Brad Havens en route to a 4-1 victory for
‘56.
‘81 without a runner until Wilfong’s fourth-inning home run.
But that home run came with
‘82 already down 3-0. In the top of the second, Havens plunked Jim Lemon and allowed a single to Clint Courtney before Berberet lined a fastball just inside the right field foul pole for an Earl Weaver special.