Name That Cub... With A Twist
by Al Yellon on Feb 6, 2009 8:07 AM CST
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PrintBCB reader Al Spangler sent me this photo... yes, there is a Cub pictured in it. Name both of these people and win a $10 gift card from Distant Replays.
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hmmmm....welll....
Erm, well if we are going to call Milton Bradley nicknames, mine is Fischer Price: yes, you heard it here first..
Mr. and Mrs. Mark DeRosa?
in a black-and-white photo?
"The finish line is just the start of the next race."
The kising bandit
"I like coconuts, you can break them open and they smell like ladies lying in the sun" Widespread Panic
Could it be?
Lee Meyers and Mamie Van Doren?
Who needs a stinkin' tag line? What are they for anyway?
by krummy12 on Feb 6, 2009 8:19 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
DINGDINGDING!!!
Winner.
Lee Meyers was a Cub minor leaguer when he married Mamie Van Doren, a sort-of actress and sex symbol, on May 4, 1966, after she broke up with Angels pitcher Bo Belinsky.
They were divorced on January 3, 1969. Here is Meyers’ playing record. He never really came close to making the major leagues.
He supposedly had inherited $2 million from his grandfather, the publisher of McCall’s magazine, but his father denied that. On April 27, 1972, Lee Meyers died in a car accident in Huntington Beach, California.
Mamie Van Doren turns 78 years old today.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Meyers was 19 when he married the 33-year-old Van Doren
She was married 5 times. Meyers being husband #3.
She also dated Howard Hughes, who supposedly discovered her and cast her in some of his movies for RKO.
"Every team will win 60 games, every team will lose 60 games, it's what the team does in the other 42 games that decides the season."
WOW
She was a hottie back in her day
At one point was still very MILFY
http://pro.corbis.com/images/42-16505010.jpg?size=67&uid={b8ac9dc0-a63f-4ebb-8a2d-4e3310c4a373}
http://pro.corbis.com/images/0000279409-002.jpg?size=67&uid={f2ba8ede-32ac-4f66-9e35-56e605bd20bc}
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According to...
… her Wikipedia page, she was born Joan Lucille Olander and named “Mamie” after President Eisenhower’s wife.
Among men she was purported to be involved with were Clark Gable, Howard Hughes, Johnny Carson, Elvis Presley, Burt Reynolds, Jack Dempsey, Steve McQueen, Johnny Rivers, Robert Evans, Eddie Fisher, Warren Beatty, Tony Curtis, Steve Cochran, and Joe Namath.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Steve Cochran?
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Feb 6, 2009 10:01 AM CST up reply actions
That list is from the Wikipedia entry.
I don’t think it’s the Steve Cochran you’re thinking of.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
I didn't really think it was
I should have posted a pic just to be silly.
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Feb 6, 2009 12:40 PM CST up reply actions
American actor from 50s & 60s
Best film IL GRIDO by Antonioni. Also in WHITE HEAT.
"I am not ashamed to say I love Greg Maddux" - Jim Hendry
by Doggie Stalker on Feb 6, 2009 12:27 PM CST up reply actions
I almost had a "beverage thru the nose" moment
when I read the above quickly and thought it read Joan Rivers instead of Johnny Rivers.
That was close. Still it was a modest gag (as in choke). Thanks, Al.
"If it's obvious, it's obviously wrong." - a well known stock market guru
now that I looked at her Wikipedia page, I think
Joan Rivers might be attracted to Mamie in her current state (that picture of her marketing the whine, err…wine) is a bit rough.
"If it's obvious, it's obviously wrong." - a well known stock market guru
This is weird
Supposedly the pic is from 2007 she would have been like 76 years old? Does not look my grandma or anyone else I know. Suspect she has alot of bondo on…
Oh, that's just wrong.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
save the children
Well, Next Year is here .. and Jack's century's gotta end some time .. GO CUBBIES!
some just can't give it up
<<<>>>
"Truth does not do as much good in the world as the semblance of truth does evil," - Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 64.
Now THAT"S scary...
But it does have it’s uses……we could use it to “interrogate” all the insurgents we capture over here, just keep showing them that pic till they talk. I imagine it wouldn’t take long!
Hmmm
MILFY — really? Maybe in the pic Al posted…but geez she looks like a dolled up grandma in the other pics. Dolled-up Grandma ≠MILF. Well wait…maybe this is a generational thing.
Ok nevermind.
Trick qusestion
Technically he was never a CHICAGO Cub
If you had to choose just one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
That would be question
If you had to choose just one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
True.
But he is wearing a Cubs cap in the photo.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
lame excuse :)
If you had to choose just one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
But in defense....
he is only referred to as a Cub — not a Chicago Cub. ;)
"...the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes." - Sen. Ted Stevens
I thought it was Barbara Eden and Ken Holtzman
"Who's Bob Brenly? The guy that used to be the manager for Arizona?" ~ Alfonso Guilleard Soriano
Now my goal is to find the picture of Meyers that she is holding
Meyers and Van Doren in Sacremento 1966
"Every team will win 60 games, every team will lose 60 games, it's what the team does in the other 42 games that decides the season."
Someone in...
… the comments in this post at the Angels blog 6-4-2 mentioned that Lee Meyers was his uncle (the poster was born after Lee died). Don’t know how that would help you find that photo, but it’s interesting.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Here you go...
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://pro.corbis.com/images/U1521006.jpg3Fsize3D6726uid3D257B5E2DBE11-F2BE-44B0-AD6C-3C81F9C4F039257D&imgrefurl=http://pro.corbis.com/search/Enlargement.aspx3FCID3Disg26mediauid3D257B5E2DBE11-F2BE-44B0-AD6C-3C81F9C4F039257D&h=480&w=312&sz=48&tbnid=BqtkI8WajoEogM::&tbnh=129&tbnw=84&prev=/images3Fq3Dmamie2Bvan2Bdoren2Blee2Bmeyers%2Bphotos&usg=DgY6OeEEoByYX3oXIy-MbZ3yMDw=&ei=I2CMScHFJ4TUMYTY4L&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=1&ct=image&cd=1
If you had to choose just one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Hmmm.
That link isn’t very clickable. Can you fix it? Make it a TinyURL or something?
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Try this : use google search engine and type..
mamie van doren lee meyers photos. It should come up
If you had to choose just one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
I'm looking for the photo of Lee Meyers that is in the photo
You can search the Corbis site for the picture of Van Doren and Meyers that is posted here
"Every team will win 60 games, every team will lose 60 games, it's what the team does in the other 42 games that decides the season."
She probably burned it
If you had to choose just one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Hmm. BCB goes "Soft Porn"?
Or is “soft porn” an oxymoron?
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Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Feb 6, 2009 12:41 PM CST up reply actions
Holy Retro Hotness, Batman.
Interesting pic to say the least.
We are a fever ... we are a fever ... we ain't born typical.
I think I saw her in one of those midnight movies you see on TV
when you can’t sleep.
After I saw her, in my imagination she stayed with me that night, and I fell asleep like a baby :-)
"I'm not much of a chemistry guy, you know. Chemistry to me is a pinch-hit double with the bases loaded"--Jim Frey, Chicago Tribune, 1985.
Today is Mamie Van Doren's 78th Birthday
I saw just the notice in my paper. Did you know that when you posted the pic, Al?
by Mike Vails Evil Twin on Feb 6, 2009 1:51 PM CST reply actions
Just wondering
Where did he mention it? I did a word search for “birthday” in the Comments and didn’t find it.
by Mike Vails Evil Twin on Feb 6, 2009 2:00 PM CST up reply actions
in the same column where he said DING DING DING
by Cubs and Hawks fan on Feb 6, 2009 2:01 PM CST reply actions
D'oh!
I just skimmed over the paragraph and missed it.
by Mike Vails Evil Twin on Feb 6, 2009 2:05 PM CST up reply actions
"Reply" is your friend . . . .
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Feb 6, 2009 2:07 PM CST up reply actions
Well she did star in the classic
SEX KITTENS GO TO COLLEGE from the great Alfred Zugsmith. The scary thing is I don’t have to look that or the
Steve Cochran info up, I know it. Some people are good at baseball stats but I am better at worthless movie trivia.
"I am not ashamed to say I love Greg Maddux" - Jim Hendry
She might have been a hottie at one time...
Oh, this your wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must’ve been something before electricity.
- Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
- Germans?
- Forget it, he's rolling.
Mamie Loved Baseball
Meyer wasn’t the only ballplayer Mamie turned the double play with. She was also engaged for a time to Bo Belinsky.
Joe, you coulda made us proud!
by copingwiththecubs on Feb 10, 2009 9:39 AM CST reply actions
Don't Kill Me
I missed the earlier reference.
Joe, you coulda made us proud!
by copingwiththecubs on Feb 10, 2009 9:43 AM CST up reply actions
Welcome to the party....everyone's left
Van Doren supposedly dated Sandy Koufax and Tony Conigliaro, too.
"Every team will win 60 games, every team will lose 60 games, it's what the team does in the other 42 games that decides the season."
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