Quote Originally Posted by StuBass1 View Post
Yup...historic game 5 when Lou Brock forgot to slide into home plate and Willie Horton fired a strike from left field to home plate where Freehan tagged Brock out and changed the entire series outcome...I remember walking into the ballpark as Jose, seated on a stool in the outfield I think and was just starting singing and people started looking at each other like...WTF. The old Detroit sports announcer Van Patrick was in a box along the first baseline and held his nose... Jose's performance started a well publicized feud with Marvin Gaye who had performed a very traditional anthem [[Lord how things have changed LOL) at an earlier game and Marvin challenged Jose to a sing off calling the Puerto Rican Feliciano's version "unpatriotic"...https://youtu.be/aQkY2UFBUb4
Funny thing about that is 15 years later, Marvin had changed so much from the '60s Marvin that when he did the anthem again [[his fourth time), it changed the game far more than what even Jose did.