RIP Rick Camp

Oooh, look at the big brain on Brad

 

Poin would like you you to know it's not as famous as Ruth's called shot.

 

Shiiiit, Chip Caray will make it sound like it is tomorrow night.

 

The Braves had some great beards on that team, with Camp, the Mahler brothers, Glenn Hubbard, probably a few I missed ... they looked like a hillbilly reality show 30 years before those kind of shows became reality.

I was working the desks that night, we had a 12:30 AM PDT deadline back in those days and that game didn't make our paper. The agate guy and I rushed home after finally shipping the last page to see the final innings.

 

Tommy Boggs:



And since you mentioned Hubbard:



They also had a white guy with jheri curl:

 

There is some serious statistical absurdity in this box score. Can't imagine too many other people have gone 5-for-10 in a game, as Terry Harper did (including a two-out, two-run home run in the 13th).

There were also two 4-for-10s, a 3-for-10 and a 5-for-9.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1985/B07040ATL1985.htm

 

Keith Hernandez hit for the cycle. Darryl Strawberry and Davey Johnson were both ejected in the 14th inning.

 

No Bobby Thomson?
It could be No. 1 and is no lower than 3.

 

Camp's is at 3.

 

He left out Carlton Fisk, too.

 

Not to thread jack, but I wonder if something from Sosa or McGwire in '98 should be on the list.
And why Maris' 60 and not 61?

 

Daniel Nava's grand slam on the first pitch of his first MLB at-bat.