Learned something new today

elmalo · Feb 22, 2011

So, I have been reading the Phil Rizzuto biography that came out las year, Scooter, and today I read in it that when the Yankees signed Rizzuto he told them that he was 17 when he was actually 18, and that back in the 30's and 40's this was rather common. It said that Tommy Henrich took 4 years off of his age and also Pee Wee Reese, in his final year was listed as 38 but he came out and confessed that he was actually 42.

ThoseBackPages · Feb 22, 2011

is that where Pujols learned this?

mjsch · Feb 22, 2011

That is pretty interesting. I can see Pee Wee and Tommy's motivation to say they were younger than they were, but what was Phil's?

elmalo · Feb 22, 2011

ThoseBackPages said:
is that where Pujols learned this?

hahaha. That is why I brought it up. Every thread involving Pujols that gets mentioned. But there really are a lot of similarities between the latin players who do it now and the players bak then. A lot of the players back then were the sons of immigrants and grew up in pooor. Gehrig, Rizzuto, the DiMaggios, Lazzeri, Crosetti etc. and age is a big factor, the younger the better.

elmalo · Feb 22, 2011

mjsch said:
That is pretty interesting. I can see Pee Wee and Tommy's motivation to say they were younger than they were, but what was Phil's?

Rizzuto said that everyone he talked to told him to knock a year off of his age bc back then the thought was that once you turned 30 the teams thought you were through and they would look to replace you.

mjsch · Feb 22, 2011

elmalo said:
Rizzuto said that everyone he talked to told him to knock a year off of his age bc back then the thought was that once you turned 30 the teams thought you were through and they would look to replace you.

Ahh... so 40 really is the new 30. :lol:

elmalo · Feb 22, 2011

mjsch said:
elmalo said:

Rizzuto said that everyone he talked to told him to knock a year off of his age bc back then the thought was that once you turned 30 the teams thought you were through and they would look to replace you.

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Ahh... so 40 really is the new 30. :lol:

Apparantly. There was no HGH back then. hahaha

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