“Mortality Mortality”, said, the former Met first baseman, Keith Hernandez, being interviewed on ESPN sports radio.
The impact of the passing at 54, the San Diego Padres immortal, Tony Gwyn. Twenty seasons, batting 338, second only toanother icon, Ty Cobb.
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What hath this manner of an immortal man ? A tobaccochewing Hall of Fame outfielder, whose son plays for thePhillies, across the Continent , in the City of Brotherly Love.
Therefore hence thus a baseball star himself, Senor Hernandezcries “Mortality Mortality,” those tears dripping from his duct,in measuring the glow of our constellation’s stars, in the end run of a “brother” named Tony Gwyn.
“MORTAQLITY, MORTALITY”
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Meanwhile on Ocean Parkway in the Flatbush section ofBrooklyn, between Avenues L and M, a cardiologist out of theGuadalajara School of Medicine in Mexico, was caught off camera, in our digital whir of cyber space, mimicking Jimmy Cagney on hearing a patient’s storied recovery.
” Staying at the actor’s blue jays flying squirrels farm house in Free Acres, New Jersey, after a 30 day coma from typhoid fever,when there were no drugs on the market, to obliterate thedisease. .
“Kissing up to me , mouthing their dirty confessions to the coppers. You got to forgive me Mom. But those dirty double crossers. When I get out, I’ll even it up. Tit for tat,” mimicking the Cagney dialogue.
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Harry, Sam, Jack and Albert’s primitive Warner Brothers studio, several blocks away on Avenue M, the other side of Coney Island Avenue, a hit away for Tony Gwynn, from the BMT local subway station, and the memorable run to Prospect Park and theproud Ebbets Field, transplanted to the City of Angels ‘sChavez Ravine, a short distance from the Warner Brothers studio in Burbank.
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“Mortality Mortality! So help me God”
June 22, 2014 The City that never sleeps.
