Baseball Thread 6 - Steve Garvey's got a lot of mouths to feed

[Batman]

Always wanted to start one of these. Sorry if I jumped the gun a bit, but I wasn't sure if No. 5 would make it through another day.

Other great No. 6s:
Stan Musial
Al Kaline
Ryan Howard
Johnny Pesky
Tony Oliva

 

[Batman]

What's the usual protocol?
Seemed like the dueling Buerhle threads were taking up most of the discussion. There wasn't a lot of chatter about other games, and the day is almost over. Seemed like a good time for it.

 

[doubledown68]

There may have been more controversial homers hit than the one on July 24, 1983... but only one that caused a future Hall of Famer to go completely, bat-**** berserk.

And I think baseball could use more characters like Billy Martin.

 

[Batman]

How about a guy like Barry Bonds ... born on July 24, 1964.

 

[Batman]

Well, usual protocol is the sticky that Moddy posted at the beginning of the season: baseball threads go to 60 pages.

Go back to S&N and look one thread above this one.

Kind of hard to miss that. But I always thought it was best to start them fresh at the end of a day. That way you don't hit the 60-page mark and get cut off.
And, considering the events of Thursday, wrapping up the old thread on Page 56 seemed kind of poetic, no?
Live and learn, I guess.

 

[I Should Coco]

Kind of hard to miss that. But I always thought it was best to start them fresh at the end of a day. That way you don't hit the 60-page mark and get cut off.
And, considering the events of Thursday, wrapping up the old thread on Page 56 seemed kind of poetic, no?
Live and learn, I guess.

I like that, Batman.

BTW, keep up the good work in Gotham City ... :D

 

[BYH]

There may have been more controversial homers hit than the one on July 24, 1983... but only one that caused a future Hall of Famer to go completely, bat-**** berserk.

Greatest tantrum ever recorded.

What was Brett's line in the dugout? "If he calls me out I'm gonna go out there and kill him," or something like that?

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Always wanted to start one of these. Sorry if I jumped the gun a bit, but I wasn't sure if No. 5 would make it through another day.

Other great No. 6s:
Stan Musial
Al Kaline
Ryan Howard
Johnny Pesky
Tony Oliva

Bobby Cox and Joe Torre (as manager of the Yankees) come to mind. So dose Richie Zisk, though I'm not sure why; believe he wore 22. I think it's because of the similarity between his name and the word six.

 

[buckweaver]

Other great No. 6s:
Stan Musial
Al Kaline
Ryan Howard Steve Garvey
Johnny Pesky
Tony Oliva

Those five are the only No. 6s to have their numbers retired by an MLB team.

 

[Moderator1]

Lord. You guys are killing me. Killing me! Next person to jump the gun dies (though the 56 reasoning is pretty solid. Besides, that was Jim Bouton's number)

 

[novelist_wannabe]

There's also the Rennie Stinnett (six hits in one game) connection.

 

[Drip]

Too bad this doesn't go into another sport because the most exciting player to wear #6 arguably was Julius Winfield Erving. Better known to many as Dr. J.

 

[cranberry]

Too bad this doesn't go into another sport because the most exciting player to wear #6 arguably was Julius Winfield Erving. Better known to many as Dr. J.

I'll go with Mickey Mantle.

 

[ServeItUp]

Another No. 6, Keith Moreland, name-checked in Steve Goodman's "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request."

"Have the Cubbies run right out into the middle of the field/Have Keith Moreland drop another routine fly/Give everybody two bags of peanuts and a frosty malt/And I'll be ready to die..."

 

[doubledown68]

There may have been more controversial homers hit than the one on July 24, 1983... but only one that caused a future Hall of Famer to go completely, bat-**** berserk.

Greatest tantrum ever recorded.

What was Brett's line in the dugout? "If he calls me out I'm gonna go out there and kill him," or something like that?

Something like that. I've heard that he said that's the last thing he remembers saying before flying out of the dugout. I was only 4 when that happened... I don't remember it live. But it grew on me every time I saw the highlight with my dad and he started cackling.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Too bad this doesn't go into another sport because the most exciting player to wear #6 arguably was Julius Winfield Erving. Better known to many as Dr. J.

I'll go with Mickey Mantle.

Didn't Mantle wear 7?.

 

[Guy_Incognito]

There may have been more controversial homers hit than the one on July 24, 1983... but only one that caused a future Hall of Famer to go completely, bat-**** berserk.

Greatest tantrum ever recorded.

What was Brett's line in the dugout? "If he calls me out I'm gonna go out there and kill him," or something like that?

Something like that. I've heard that he said that's the last thing he remembers saying before flying out of the dugout. I was only 4 when that happened... I don't remember it live. But it grew on me every time I saw the highlight with my dad and he started cackling.

I was 10, and in camp. It was the one game I had a chance to hear all summer because it was visiting day, but my parents worked in the camp. It was awesome, even on the radio.

 

[spnited]

There may have been more controversial homers hit than the one on July 24, 1983... but only one that caused a future Hall of Famer to go completely, bat-**** berserk.

And I think baseball could use more characters like Billy Martin.

Yes, baseball needs more alcoholic, bigoted, racist bastards like Billy Martin.

 

[slappy4428]

Too bad this doesn't go into another sport because Sidney Spencer wears 6 for the New York Liberty and she's the best girls basketball player Hoover High School ever produced.

 

[slappy4428]

There may have been more controversial homers hit than the one on July 24, 1983... but only one that caused a future Hall of Famer to go completely, bat-**** berserk.

And I think baseball could use more characters like Billy Martin.

Yes, baseball needs more alcoholic, bigoted, racist bastards dead people like Billy Martin.