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My West Coast brother in oddball issues comes through again!! I don't think I ever completed that set even though I have the Kobe and MJ. I need to try to piece that set together.
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I think Dewey has a good shot at HoF based on advance metrics and defense. Concepcion maybe as well. The ship has sailed on Lynn and Tiant.
It’s a shame though because during his career I always thought that Lynn passed the eye test and was bound for Cooperstown. I think bouncing around with Baltimore, Detroit and San Diego changed some views of him.
I distinctly remember listening to the game on WJR in Detroit when Lynn had 10 RBI against the Tigers. I also remember when the Tigers drafted the "next Fred Lynn" out of USC a few years later. Steve Kemp was good but never reached the heights Lynn did.
You named all the great players in that 1976 World Series. Looking at it from 1970s eyes, I viewed George Foster as the most feared hitter from those two teams. Man, that guy was awesome for several years and he seems to be forgotten.
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The bouncing around definitely hurt him, and his falloff was as big as Dale Murphy and Andruw Jones.
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I used to see Foster with the Mets in the early 80s. He was a strikeout machine. But in those mid 70s years he was fearsome.
2013 Panini cooperstown tony perez signature auto 022/300
Seeing this card always makes me think that he got a large ice cream from the concourse at The Vet and used the helmet it was served in for this picture!
Pretty sure this was a case hit. Kind of shocked it is still in my possession.
Here is one for today!
Topps heritage high number 2023 Trea Turner SP
Topps heritage high number 2023 Trea Turner SP
The biter.......
Wow, the number is 34! my favorite number! every week at least once it shows
up at the most random time or on the most random thing!
Wow! I was wondering what you were refering to with "the biter" and had to look it up. I had never heard of any of those incidents and I was following baseball pretty closely at the time and was an avid reader of the weekly publication The Sporting News as well. A Mets cap, a Pirates pitcher and a bouncer all were bitten by this guy. The Pirates pitcher needed to get a tetnus shot. Heck, I'm surprised he did not need rabies treatments!
Anytime I hear Pedro Borbon's name from now on, I'll be thinking of "the biter". Those incidents are pretty hard to forget! LOL
From what I remember, he didn't "need" the tetanus shot, but it was highly suggested..........
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