Celtics Contest! **WINNER IS JACK!!**

[KCLJ520]

Numbers chosen: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23, 25, 27, 29, 30, 33, 34, 35, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 48, 51, 52, 55, 56, 65, 67, 69, 72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 88, 93, 99.

CONGRATS JACK! You are our winner, lucky #1....as the Celtics were the #1 team for so many decades, and are the #1 team in terms of NBA championships with 17!

Congrats, and God Bless!

Kevin

 

[KCLJ520]

Kevin, if you have any older relatives or friends that were Celtics fans back in the Havlicek era you should run the Hondo TV show theory by them and see what they think.

My brother is a big John Wayne fan and I get under his skin by telling him the TV show Hondo could whip the movie Hondo's butt. Man oh man, the TV show Hondo got in more fistfights then you can count and that was in only 17 episodes too! LOL

I'll go with 25 today.

I will most certainly do that, I will be with my father in law most of the day tomorrow, so will see if he remembers the show! I will have to check that show out online too, might be fun....another great western was The Rifleman, and if memory serves, Chuck Connors played a season for the Celtics, and then the Cubs before turning to acting full time!

 

[Camsue]

Congrats Jack

 

[SymphonicMetal]

In one episode of The Rifleman Chuck Connors gunned down Duke Snider who was part of a gang. It seems there was another old Dodger that appeared in one of the episodes of the Rifleman too.....maybe Don Drysdale. At any rate, Duke got to do a little roughhousing on the townspeople before Lucas McCain put an end to his troublemaking permanently.

I'll be interested in seeing if your father in law thinks that the TV show Hondo is where Havlicek got his nickname from. He probably won't remember the short lived (17 episodes) show but if you are able to show him those pictures on the Hondo Wikipedia page his thoughts on it would be interesting. There are a couple of clips on Youtube of the show too. I'm actually surprised there are not more with GetTV airing that series now but entering "Hondo TV show" in the YouTube search function should get you to the few videos on the site.

Congrats to jack and thanks again for the fun contest Kevin!

 

[SymphonicMetal]

As a follow up to my previous post, it was Don Drysdale being another Dodger that also guest starred on The Rifleman. With Connors's previous association with the Dodgers and the fact they had moved to LA about the time The Rifleman was on, it makes perfect sense some of the players would have made cameo appearances on that show.

 

[Jack]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH again especially for running the contest
Jack

 

[KCLJ520]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH again especially for running the contest
Jack

You are welcome friend, hope you enjoy the cards!

God Bless,

Kevin

 

[KCLJ520]

As a follow up to my previous post, it was Don Drysdale being another Dodger that also guest starred on The Rifleman. With Connors's previous association with the Dodgers and the fact they had moved to LA about the time The Rifleman was on, it makes perfect sense some of the players would have made cameo appearances on that show.

I HAD NO IDEA! That is so cool, I will have to look that up, Duke would have been fairly old in baseball years by that time, he was with the Dodgers 1947-1962....neat trivia, I will have to look those episodes up. That was one of my Dad's very favorite shows, I remember many of the episodes, but I did not recognize the baseballers as a young boy watching the show, will have to check it out now.

Thanks so much, that is neat to know!

 

[SymphonicMetal]

Kevin, here are links from IMDB to the episodes with Duke Snider and Don Drysdale in them.

Duke Snider in episode "The Retired Gun".


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0686723/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_3

Don Drysdale in the episode "Skull".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0686658/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_13

You might be able to find these episodes online. I know Duke met his demise from the business end of McCain's rifle but I can't remember if I have even seen the one with Drysdale in it. I may have just caught his name on the ending credits.

 

[KCLJ520]

Kevin, here are links from IMDB to the episodes with Duke Snider and Don Drysdale in them.

Duke Snider in episode "The Retired Gun".


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0686723/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_3

Don Drysdale in the episode "Skull".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0686658/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_13

You might be able to find these episodes online. I know Duke met his demise from the business end of McCain's rifle but I can't remember if I have even seen the one with Drysdale in it. I may have just caught his name on the ending credits.

Very cool, thanks Jeff! Funny to think of a baseball hero getting shot in a western, but there was a ton of overlap between sports and show business, especially in the 50s and 60s!

 

[Jack]

Received cards GREAT cards Loscutoff went into protective case first
THANK YOU VERY MUCH TERRIFIC contest
Jack