⚾ 🥎 Who did you watch in baseball when you were 10 years old?

[OldPlayer]

Carl Yastrzemski​

 

[TerryP]

Vida Blue.

I had one of the gloves playing LL.

 

[UAgrad93]

The infield for LA in those days...we're talking late 70's now, early 80's. Russell, Cey, Davey at second...geez. And then on 1st, Garvey. At the end of that infield they brought Fernando out.

Exactly! Hell, I decided to just go with teams, because there were so many great players during that era!

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I watched every time the Braves were on TV (before Turner put them on cable). The Cincinnati Reds, Oakland A’s, and Pittsburgh Pirates all had great players to watch. Roberto Clemente, Vida Blue, Rollie Fingers, Rose, Bench, Morgan. But being from Mobile, Hank Aaron was the man!

I was a catcher, so Bench was my guy.

 

[BamaFan334]

Carl Yastrzemski​

Saw his grandson play in New York a hair over a week ago. Their fans were giving him hell out in Right.

 

[alabama mike]

The ONLY baseball on TV when I grew up in the late 60’s and early 70’s was the NBC game of the week with Tony Kubic and Joe Gorgonzola (sp). I watched whomever was on but really enjoyed the Oakland A’s. I later listened to the Reds with my papa. We always tried to pull in 700 WLW out of Cincinnati from our north Alabama home.

 

[TerryP]

We always tried to pull in 700 WLW out of Cincinnati from our north Alabama home.

I wasn't a Cubs fan...but, in the right spot in Huntsville I could get WGN on AM radio.

Church service, on a Sunday night...I'm in the "bathroom" but in the Grenada listening to the Super Bowl with Dallas and Denver. I think that was WGN...I know I couldn't get that station at home and I had a pretty bad ass radio at the time.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Mantle. Maris. Say Hey Willie Mays.
Etc

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

10 y/o would have put me in the late 80's...

Hitters... Gwynn, Sandberg, Puckett, Brett, Yount, Mattingly, Murphy, Schmidt

Pitchers... Clemens & Ryan

Top 2 favorites overall... Will Clark & Matt Williams

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

I moved to Lansing, Michigan when I was 7, in 1984, right before the Detroit Tigers won the World Series, so it was Kirk Gibson from that point forward.

He made baseball a legendary game for me & Detroit is the only Tiger team I root for.

 

[TerryP]

10 y/o would have put me in the late 80's...

Hitters... Gwynn, Sandberg, Puckett, Brett, Yount, Mattingly, Murphy, Schmidt

Pitchers... Clemens & Ryan

Top 2 favorites overall... Will Clark & Matt Williams

Name another player that you saw in the first three, no matter the inning, and you said, "He's on first."

 

[TerryP]

I moved to Lansing, Michigan when I was 7, in 1984, right before the Detroit Tigers won the World Series, so it was Kirk Gibson from that point forward.

He made baseball a legendary game for me & Detroit is the only Tiger team I root for.

I get what you are saying here. But.

1988. With the call from Scully. It ain't Detroit.

 

[TerryP]

I get what you are saying here. But.

1988. With the call from Scully. It ain't Detroit.

Wasn't that Rollie on the mound for the A's?

 

[TerryP]

Wasn't that Rollie on the mound for the A's?

No. Dennis Excersly (sp.)

 

[TerryP]

I moved to Lansing, Michigan when I was 7, in 1984, right before the Detroit Tigers won the World Series, so it was Kirk Gibson from that point forward.

Now ya got me pissed off a little bit. What was the count...with Lasrso in the opposite dugout. How many times did they go to first?

As I recall it was Sax after Gibson. Runner on base...second? Wasn't it 3-2 with two outs? I know it was because he was wearing #23 and I thought, "that's a little backwards as this inning has been." Look up the vid...Scully's "improbable" line was spot on.

 

[EasyTider]

Ron Guidry, Louisiana Lightning

 

[TerryP]

Look up the vid...Scully's "improbable" line was spot on

@Crimson&WhiteGecko

Started thinking about how this game closed again this morning watching a few highlights of last night...so, looked up the video.

 

[Justneedme81]

Greg Maddux, Randy Johnson, ken Godfrey Jr, wade bogg, Kirby I forgot his last name played for Minnesota., Steve glavine, John smoltz, deion Sanders, bo Jackson, etc

 

[alabama mike]

Greg Maddux, Randy Johnson, ken Godfrey Jr, wade bogg, Kirby I forgot his last name played for Minnesota., Steve glavine, John smoltz, deion Sanders, bo Jackson, etc

Kirby Puckett with the Twins.
Steve Avery and Tom Glavine with the Braves.

I have been a Braves fan since the late 60’s.

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

Now ya got me pissed off a little bit. What was the count...with Lasrso in the opposite dugout. How many times did they go to first?

As I recall it was Sax after Gibson. Runner on base...second? Wasn't it 3-2 with two outs? I know it was because he was wearing #23 and I thought, "that's a little backwards as this inning has been." Look up the vid...Scully's "improbable" line was spot on.

The '88 HR entire frame work was mind numbing & to do that against Eckersly was insane.

But back to '84. Turns out Gibson's first ever major league at bat was Goose Gossage where Gossage struck him out with 3 pitches. Well, his cockiness bit him in the buttocks in the World Series. I mean, it's not like Gibson hadn't been over every pitch that Gossage threw to him a thousand times (in his head) before. So to get a chance back at him in the World Series. To say the least, he was ready.

I think that at bat, got him ready to mentally attack Eckersly. EVERONE feared him. Not Gibson. He was beat the hell-up, but he wasn't affraid.