HERB SCORE June 7,1933-November 11,2008

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The Ballad Of Herb Score

by Terry Cashman

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Bet you never of Herbie Score

But after the winter of '54

The Indian signals said send us a kid with smoke

He blew them away in '55

This red head south paw-man alive

Bet you never heard of Herbie Score

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One day I saw him take the hill

In the stadium that Babe Ruth built

Just sat back I watched him fire

The curve the heat he didn't need tricks

He struck out the Yogi

Struck out the Mick

Still you never heard of Herbie Score

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Then one night he took the mound

He was on his way to Cooperstown

One pitch and history was changed

McDougald swung and Herb was shattered

He tried to come back

But it never really mattered

And that's why you never heard about Herbie Score

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There was Harry Agganis/Kenny Hubbs

One was a Red Sox

One was a Cub

Never got to finish what they began

The gods of the diamond change like the weather

They give us a natural

Then they take him forever

And that's what they did to Herbie Score

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The gods of the diamond they play a strange game

they give us the light

then they blow out the flame

That's what they did to Herbie Score

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Bet you never heard of Herbie Score

But after the winter of '54

The Indian signals said

Send us a kid with smoke

Ray Kinsella: Fifty years ago, for five minutes you came within... y-you came this close. It would KILL some men to get so close to their dream and not touch it. God, they'd consider it a tragedy.

Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham: Son, if I'd only gotten to be a doctor for five minutes... now that would have been a tragedy.

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Amen,Moonlight,Amen.We'll miss you Mr.Score

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"And that ball is outta here."