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NOW IS THE TIME…RETIRE #36
1980: Astros take Playoff with Dodgers, 7-1 By Bill McCurdy Texas Baseball Hall of Fame Induction, 2005: Artist Opie Otterstad, Presenter Greg Lucas, Inductee Joe Niekro. The date was October 6, 1980. By tailspinning into a three game sweep loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on the West Coast, the Houston Astros found themselves facing the […]
Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2010Read More -
Hotstove.com relives the Niekro Magic
Today I spent almost an hour speaking with Tom Reese and Paul Rubillo of Hotstove.com, a radio show broadcast from New Jersey. They brought such joy to me as we relived some of Dad’s greatest playing moments and my childhood as the daughter of one of the greatest Knuckleball pitchers in history. What a pleasure […]
Posted on Friday, March 5, 2010Read More -
The Knuckle Ball: It’s Now A Pitch for Life Over Sudden Death
IT HAPPENS EVERY SPRING Written by: Natalie Niekro at age 7 Spring Training is here and baseball is starting, which means that my Dad and I will be parting. His baseball career is his dream-come-true But the time we’re apart makes me so sad and blue. Though Winter’s a memory and flowers now bloom, I […]
Posted on Friday, July 3, 2009Read More -
Living a Legacy
I receive hundreds of comments every week on the foundation website, www.joeniekrofoundation.org, and as I hear about the number of people effected by aneurysms, I become more astonished at the lack of research being done within this area. Just yesterday I received a message from a young woman who had just lost her 33 year […]
Posted on Wednesday, June 24, 2009Read More -
Reflections from 1980
Two days ago while sitting in my office burning the candle at both ends as I always do, I received a call from a dear friend of Dad’s and former Detroit Tiger, Jon Warden. As soon as I answered, Jon asked me if I subscribed to the MLB Network. Well, it doesn’t take a genius […]
Posted on Thursday, June 4, 2009Read More