Glory Days

[Bulldog Bruce]

Spring cleaning and I got the Glory Days out of closets, drawers and cabinets.View attachment 15470

 

[ronpolk]

Pretty awesome!

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Thanks for wearing pants today!

 

[Shmuley]

Thanks for the memories, Bruce.

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

You are welcome

 

[wasabaka]

Love it. Adidas needs to bring this font back to the '85 jerseys. They don't look right without it.

 

[Reunion Dog]

Miss some Kenny Kurtz too! After his arm injury... He coached me at Starkville Academy!!

Pete Torres helped him too.. Pete's 1st wife graduated SA with me ..

 

[thatsbaseball]

Great memories....Thanks Bruce

 

[CochiseCowbell]

That's rad. Thanks Bruce!

 

[knock him out john]

Bruce,
I saw you hit one up into the lights. Great times a the Dude.

 

[LexSCDOG]

Spring cleaning and I got the Glory Days out of closets, drawers and cabinets.View attachment 15470

Glad you are a DAWG. Enjoyed watching you play.

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

Thanks to each of you and all fans that are so special to each of the guys that donned a baseball uniform for MSU.

 

[HumpDawgy]

Bruce, please tell me you didn't mash all those homers with a wooden bat?

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Thanks for sharing and being a part of the SixPack. I enjoy hearing your take on things.

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

No. The wood bat is from my first batch of bats I ordered with the Astros.

This was another example of how inept they were in those days. I played in the half season NY-Penn league with mostly guys that were also just drafted. The first week there they tell us we need to tell them what bat to order for each of us. They were going to buy a dozen bats for each of us so you were going to be "stuck" with your choice for awhile. They had no examples of anything or catalogs or anything that would guide us to the hundreds of models that were produced at the time.

Happens that I used wood bats enough in my high school days that I had an idea of a bat that fit me well. I had great success with the Adirondack Joe Torre knobless model bat (219). So I ordered that in 35 inch 33 ounce with a cupped end. They come back the next day and say they were only ordering from Louisville Slugger so I had to order something else. I knew they made the U1 which was knobless but I never had really done well with it when I tried in in years past. So I am totally lost and have no help in ordering the most important tool to my future. So I go looking through the existing bats they had there to try and find something with a small knob that I could pinky with not too thin of a handle and a reasonable barrel size. I found an S226 that fit those basic parameters and so that is what I ordered. It amazed me the lack of thought and preparation behind such an important decision that the organization had. How were a bunch of guys that have probably never used a wood bat, and if they did it was probably a Jackie Robinson or an M110 model, suppose to know what would fit them best for competing at the highest level they could.

 

[thekimmer]

Great memories....

One game that stands out was the 1981 SEC Tournament at the Dude. UK had a submarine reliever named Keener that really had our number. I think I remember in the first game you saved the day by putting one into the lounge in a for a couple of runs in a very tight game. The old wooden bleachers went bonkers.

LOL, unfortunately we ran into him again the next day in the losers bracket.

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

Jeff Keener had everyone's number in the SEC that year. His ERA was 0.51. That frisbee/wiffle ball curveball he threw you had to have it start behind you. That at bat I was probably most proud of during my time at MSU. It put us up by a run in the 8th. Unfortunately we gave it back in the 9th so it did not achieve legendary status.