I'm watching the Astros-Mets game on TV.
Knuckleballer R.A. Dickey is throwing for the Mets.
So, with knuckleballers on my mind, I looked up Wilbur Wood, Phil Niekro and Joe Niekro's numbers on baseball-reference.com.
With Joe Niekro, I forgot he passed away four years ago of a brain aneurism. Anyway, Joe Niekro hit one home run in 973 career at-bats. It came on May 29th, 1976 at Fulton-County Stadium in Atlanta against...his brother Phil!
It got me to thinking, did Phil groove one to his brother, a lifetime .156 hitter? Or, did Joe, having probably batted against his brother a million times in backyard wiffleball games, just know how to hit Phil?
By the way, combined, the Niekro's won a combined total of 539 wins (Phil 318, Joe 221. They also combined for 8 big league homers. Joe's one bomb off Joe and Phil's 7 roundtrippers.
By the way, I've always been a Phil Niekro fan. Why? We share the same birthday but he's a bit older than me.
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