Your favorite player when ...

[Woy]

My work-study boss (RMU's SID) has Rickey Henderson memorabilia all through his office, it's pretty awesome. I've always been a fan of his as well.

I was a left handed hitting CF in Little League and HS. What choice did I have?

Sounds exactly like my cousin. He was naturally right-handed but forced himself to bat left-handed so he was more like Griffey.

[shag773]

5 Yrs Old
Mike Schmidt


10 Yrs Old
Dave Winfield


15 Yrs Old
Juan Samuel


20 Yrs Old
Lenny Dykstra


Now
Cliff Lee

[Warner2BruceTD]

JUAN SAMUEL

tremendous

[manchild24]

When I was five:
When I was ten:
When I was fifteen:
When I was twenty: stopped following baseball for awhile and didnt have any favs.

[shag773]

JUAN SAMUEL

tremendous

Being a Phillies fan in 1988, it was either Juan Samuel or..



Slim pickings..

[Warner2BruceTD]

VON HAYES

[shag773]

VON HAYES

I hated Von Hayes. To me he represented what was wrong with those pitiful Phillies teams in the mid to late 80's. Although the name Lance Parrish makes me want to thow myself into traffic.

[NAHSTE]

Now we're talking. Getting some old school action in this thread. Though I'm still upset that w2B omitted The Goggled Gloveman, Chris Sabo:




Also one slight correction to my post, I loved Ken Griffey, Jr. as much as the next 10 year old, but I was really all about Ryan Klesko.

[Senser81]

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[RyanLeaf16]

Call me sappy or whatever, but, my Grandfather, Tony Cuccinello Sr.



My father also played. Turned down a scholarship from Duke to sign with the Cleveland Indians. He never made it to the big-league level though. Just didn't have enough of a bat. But he could still get into a batting cage in his fifties and crank 'em out in the 80-90 mph cage. It was crazy. I still have some of his signed contracts and things like that.

Anyway, my grandfather was a pretty damn good player. Played in the league's first all-star game in 1933 as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Here is his BR.com page if anyone is interested.

Sorry to go on and on, just something I hold dear to me and something I'm proud of.

Tony Cuccinello Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com

[RyanLeaf16]

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I had that Tom Henke card!!!

[Senser81]

Call me sappy or whatever, but, my Grandfather, Tony Cuccinello Sr.



My father also played. Turned down a scholarship from Duke to sign with the Cleveland Indians. He never made it to the big-league level though. Just didn't have enough of a bat. But he could still get into a batting cage in his fifties and crank 'em out in the 80-90 mph cage. It was crazy. I still have some of his signed contracts and things like that.

Anyway, my grandfather was a pretty damn good player. Played in the league's first all-star game in 1933 as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Here is his BR.com page if anyone is interested.

Sorry to go on and on, just something I hold dear to me and something I'm proud of.

Tony Cuccinello Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com

Making the all-star game is nice, but what was his UZR rating?

Kind of a weird career. Maybe he was batting against "war-time pitching", but he had a great year in 1945. But then he retired. Do you know why?

[NAHSTE]

I'd like an answer for the huge spike in OPS towards the end of his career between 1944 and 1945. What kind of old school PEDs was your grandpappy on? :D


No but seriously, that's awesome. I have a love for the Brooklyn Dodgers and their history, thank you for posting that. If you ever want to see the garish apartment building that used to be Ebbets Field it's a few blocks from my apt. Sometimes if I listen real close, I can still hear Jonny Podres coughing up a lung.

[Senser81]

I hated Von Hayes. To me he represented what was wrong with those pitiful Phillies teams in the mid to late 80's. Although the name Lance Parrish makes me want to thow myself into traffic.

Hayes was a pretty good player. A good batting eye with decent pop. Parrish wasn't the best, and there was huge hype when the Phillies were able to sign him. The Phillies had decent enough position players, IMO, and they had a great bullpen with Tekulve, Hume, etc. But their starting pitching was always atrocious. The "Shane Rawley" experiment lasted for years, and I remember when Kevin Gross was their 'ace'. Ick.

[manchild24]

Growing up in the 80s and playing little league I slowly got away from being a Phillies fan (coming back now the last few years since my sister lives down in the Hatfield area and Im at games quite a bit) But thinking back to some of those players

Geroge Brett
Cal
Guidry
Ricky Henderson
Ferndo Valenzuea
Pedro Guerrero
ron Cey -the penguin
Tommy Herr
Willie McGhee
Jack and Will the Neuschler Clark
Tug
the Wild Boys (backman and dykstra)
Canseco/Mcgwier
Kirby
Whitiker
Trammel
Lance Parrish (all i remember from him though was that catchers mit outline in orange-thought that was the fucking coolest as a kid)
Sandberg

BAKE MCBRIDE
THE SARGE
Manny Trillo

I could go on I was getting a flash back