Mel Hall’s Special Place In Hell
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The first Yankees baseball game I took my sons to was in 1991, the second of two dark periods in Yankee pinstripe history…at least in my lifetime. (The first was the so-called “Horace Clarke Era” when it seemed everybody on the team was either too fat or too skinny, slow, and without any power to go with batting averages ranging between .190 and .230.)
Mel Hall, a journeyman outfielder with occasional long-ball capability was one of the better players on that 1991 team. 
He hit a home run in that 1991 game, which the Yankees won 13-5 against the Baltimore Orioles. Matt Nokes, a catcher and one of the slowest bipeds on earth, also hit a homer. Steve Sax, the second baseman, went four for five.
Sax, incidentally, was a pretty good player, but he is remembered for having developed a mental block of some sort that made it impossible for him to throw the ball accurately to first base. This malady was surpassed in weirdness by a latter-day Yankee second-sacker, Chuck Knoblauch, whose tortured throws in the dirt became painful to watch.
Hall was considered an unwholesome character, even then. He used to rag on a young and sensitive Bernie Williams in those days. Somwhere we still have a 1991 Yankees yearbook, which included a photo of Hall with his creepy looking girl friend.
Hall disappeared from the Major League scene more than a decade ago, but he returned to public view the other day when he was sentenced in Fort Worth, Texas to 45 years in prison after being convicted for raping a 12-year-old girl.
Guess they won’t be doing a Yankeeography on Mel. They won’t have to because somebody already beat them to it with a special tribute.
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The national past time aint what it used to be. The Yankees, knowing full well today’s game couldn’t possibly start before five due to the rain, refused to cancel. They allowed the fans to drive in, pay for gas, tolls and overpriced parking. They charged an obscene amount of money for tickets so that fans with children in tow could have the privilege of sitting for five and a half hours in the pouring rain. While holding them hostage they charged them outrageous prices for food and souvenirs and then they allowed the game to begin while it was still raining. If you had sense enough not to put up with these inconveniences you are out the kings ransom you paid for your ducats. Walt Whitman once said, “I see great things in baseball. It’s our game- the American game.” Wonder what he would say now.
Mel Hall was falsly Accused I feel bad how the system works No evidence just here say and the jurys spent No time just 40 mintutes Guilty I guess they wanted to go home and feed the kids They probably saw OJ Simpsons face I hope those Liars charma will get them even that ugly girl that use to come to the ballpark with her mom chasing Mel for 2 years then has the nerve to Rape his Money get a new home and pay their taxes Trailer trash!!!! begged for him to attend her prom then saying trash about him You cheap Piece of Garbage…I played with him for years he is No Molester Bad Deal…...It’s scary…...Mel is a kind human being that has an out going personality we loved him …Family please stay strong for him
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