OOB Text Question - Favorite Baseball player when you were a kid**
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I had his number since tee ball and I own about 30 Chipper Jones baseball cards. At the first Braves game I went to in 1995, I was standing in line to get his autograph for like 10 mins then when I was next in line it started to rain and he went into the dugout. He turned to wave at the crowd while walking away and my mom snapped a picture...... with the lens cap on. Saddest moment of my life.
I was a huge Royals fan as a kid. In fact, they are the only team I cheer for that has ever won a national/world championship.
It always amazed me as a kid how Brett ended up being a third baseman. He is a natural lefty, yet when he was a kid his big brothers were right handed and his parents couldn't afford to buy him a right-handed mitt. So, in order to play baseball he had to learn how to throw right handed. That's pretty damn impressive, especially when you consider how good his arm was on that corner. He did take home one gold glove - in that magical '85 season.
He was also the ultimate gamer. He willed that team to victory down the stretch in '85, carried them in their comeback against Toronto and then batted .370 something in the World Series. Not to mention all the great games he had against the Yankees in the late '70s. The pitching staff in '85 was solid, but when you look at the line-up they trotted out there, they didn't have much business winning a World Series.
Brett is also only one of four players in MLB history to accumulate 3,000 hits, 300 home runs, and a career .300 batting average.
Writing all of this makes me miss baseball. I have a really hard time getting excited about it anymore since my team never has a chance in hell of winning.
It always amazed me as a kid how Brett ended up being a third baseman. He is a natural lefty, yet when he was a kid his big brothers were right handed and his parents couldn't afford to buy him a right-handed mitt. So, in order to play baseball he had to learn how to throw right handed. That's pretty damn impressive, especially when you consider how good his arm was on that corner. He did take home one gold glove - in that magical '85 season.
He was also the ultimate gamer. He willed that team to victory down the stretch in '85, carried them in their comeback against Toronto and then batted .370 something in the World Series. Not to mention all the great games he had against the Yankees in the late '70s. The pitching staff in '85 was solid, but when you look at the line-up they trotted out there, they didn't have much business winning a World Series.
Brett is also only one of four players in MLB history to accumulate 3,000 hits, 300 home runs, and a career .300 batting average.
Writing all of this makes me miss baseball. I have a really hard time getting excited about it anymore since my team never has a chance in hell of winning.
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