FP Series #667 - Jim Bibby Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

drives: This has been a fun one over the years. Remembering back 12 years ain't easy for an old fart, but the fact that a large cedar is right at GZ has thrown many folks off the track. The fact that a metal fence is also right there at GZ, makes the perfect spot for a magnetic nano. ...If memory serves.

I am archiving because I don't know when, if ever, I'll be back to check on it, but those who've looked before, feel free to look again and log it when you find it.

Bye Felicia.
Baxter out

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Hidden : 3/18/2011
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Six Hundred SixtySeventh in the Famous People (FP) Series - Jim Bibby
James Blair Bibby (October 29, 1944 – February 16, 2010) was an American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. During a 12-year baseball career, he pitched from 1972-1984 with the St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, and Pittsburgh Pirates, with whom he was a member of its 1979 World Series Champions.

After beginning 1973 at 0–2 with a 9.56 ERA, he was acquired by Texas on June 6, 1973 in exchange for Mike Nagy and John Wockenfuss. Just under two months later on July 30, Bibby pitched the franchise's first-ever no-hitter in a 6–0 victory over the defending and eventual World Series Champion Oakland Athletics at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Despite issuing six walks and relying almost exclusively on his fastball, he still registered thirteen strikeouts and outdueled Vida Blue.

After he fanned in the ninth inning, Oakland's Reggie Jackson commented on the strike three pitch, "That's the fastest ball I ever saw. Actually I didn't see it. I just heard it." Bibby, whose salary was $15,000 that year, earned a $5,000 raise from team owner Bob Short as a result of the achievement.

On a ballclub that finished with the worst record in the majors at 57–105 and fired Whitey Herzog with 24 games remaining in the campaign, Bibby was its winningest pitcher despite a 9–10 record. When the Billy Martin-managed Rangers became the surprise team of 1974 by going 84–76 and vaulting into second place in the American League Western Division, Bibby (19–19) and the newly-acquired Ferguson Jenkins (25–12) each made a club-record 41 starts to anchor the pitching staff.

Hopefully you aren't pitched a curve ball here, just remember the immortal words of Yogi Berra: "It ain't over till it's over". Nano, nano.

FP cemetery caches are always placed with regards to the location, so please be mindful of your presence here, watch where you step and be respectful of the residents interred here. Please carefully re-hide the container better to maintain the integrity of the cache.
 GPSr Accuracy 7.2'
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