Name the player and why you loved to watch them play. pre 95

Lifelongfan said:

klute14 said:

Great choices and even better stories...

Mine undoubtedly was Jim Rice. He had tremendous power, could hit for average and played the Monster well.
He had that bat flip when he knew he hit the ball well, (I emulated many times playing wiffies) and his stoic demeanor was great.
I remember writing him in a letter in 1983-1984 telling him why he was my favorite player and that the reason he hit into so many double plays was that he hit the ball so hard.
I also remember one of his appearances on The Baseball Bunch when he hit a ball so far that the entire episode the Chicken was still chasing the ball. Man, I wish I could find that.

I also loved watching Dave Kingman and Reggie Jackson because I loved the big guys that would swing hard and hit the ball a mile.
I enjoyed the power pitchers as well. JR Richard, Nolan Ryan, Lee Smith and later Rob Dibble.
I would copy all of them in the backyard.

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Man, you just took me waaaayy back. Reading these post has brought back some great memories---my dad loves to tell me stories about Clemente and how he played the game. Saturday game of the week with Tony Kubek and Joe Garagiola----Loved it.

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Lifelongfan said:

klute14 said:

Great choices and even better stories...

Mine undoubtedly was Jim Rice. He had tremendous power, could hit for average and played the Monster well.
He had that bat flip when he knew he hit the ball well, (I emulated many times playing wiffies) and his stoic demeanor was great.
I remember writing him in a letter in 1983-1984 telling him why he was my favorite player and that the reason he hit into so many double plays was that he hit the ball so hard.
I also remember one of his appearances on The Baseball Bunch when he hit a ball so far that the entire episode the Chicken was still chasing the ball. Man, I wish I could find that.

I also loved watching Dave Kingman and Reggie Jackson because I loved the big guys that would swing hard and hit the ball a mile.
I enjoyed the power pitchers as well. JR Richard, Nolan Ryan, Lee Smith and later Rob Dibble.
I would copy all of them in the backyard.

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Man, you just took me waaaayy back. Reading these post has brought back some great memories---my dad loves to tell me stories about Clemente and how he played the game. Saturday game of the week with Tony Kubek and Joe Garagiola----Loved it.

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Mozzie22 said:

Besides Ozzie I loved watching Mattingly and Gooden in the mid 80's. Dwight Gooden has kind of become a punch line but to anybody that saw him pitch from 84-88 he was unreal.

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ThoseBackPages said:

JackLondon said:

(Vintage, doofy pic of me, giddily holding some Dodger cards, including Garvey, ca. 1978)

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Luke, i AM you're Father!

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