I would like to start collecting baseball cards again...

I once had Cubs pitchers Donnie Moore and Lynn McLoughlin call me from a Wrigleyville bar when I was a kid. Top that.

 

Is this the photo?

 

I said they called me — long distance, no less; I never drank with any major leaguers, nor have I ever stepped foot on the field at any MLB park, as far as you know ... or court records indicate.

 

I presume you mean Lynn McGlothen. Either way, you're a regular fucking good luck charm, aren't you?

http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mooredo01.shtml

http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mcgloly01.shtml

 

Then spell it correctly, damn it: Biittner.

The joke in Chicago was "two i's, two t's, no arm."

 

yeah, hey fuck, i should have known that catchers were known for hitting 73 long balls a year. my bad.

 

Uh huh. I never said he should hit 73 home runs. On the other hand, you called him a "helluva player," which he clearly wasn't.

He hit a lot of singles, he never drew a walk, he couldn't call a game and he was piss-poor defensively. In his 10 seasons as a regular player, he averaged six HRs per season. Don Drysdale had two seasons where he hit seven.

 

the guy was a catcher for a majority of his career and has a lifetime .296 batting average. guys who, you know, actually played for the pirates said how important the guy was to the team ... so excuse me while i dismiss your subjective line of bullshit.

taking into account what teams asked from their catchers in the prejuicing era, the guy was a helluva player.

 

Yeah, the 35-year-old opinions of unnamed ex-teammates are a tremendous line of <b>objective</b> bullshit.

He was a good singles hitter, which is why he had a .297 career average, no OBP and no power numbers. And he was piss-poor defensively, which was a skill a lot of teams asked from their catchers in the pre-juicing era.

 

November 5, 1976: Traded by the Pittsburgh Pirates to the Oakland Athletics for Chuck Tanner and $100,000.

April 4, 1978: Traded by the Oakland Athletics to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Miguel Dilone and Elias Sosa. The Pittsburgh Pirates sent Mike Edwards (April 7, 1978) to the Oakland Athletics to complete the trade.

 

clemente died many years ago, chief. and to be honest, i'll take his objectivity before yours any fucking day.

and i also, you know, watched him play.

 

The only value I held for baseball cards in my youth was for the season-by-season stats on the back. With Elias and MLB.com, we now can just about break these stats down by any split imaginable.