John Price
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- Sep 19, 2008
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Kruk and Kipe and Glen Kuiper and Ray Fosse and Jon Miller and Dave Fleming and Vince Cotroneo and Ken Korach are all GOAT
Family and access to playing it as a kid. It was the sport I was first thrown into playing and I was raised hearing legendary stories about the exploits of my grandfather...I'm sure 70% of them were pure garbage, but some I got verified by third parties...local sandlot legend and ringer for company baseball teams, was offered a contract by the Pirates in 1927 but declined it because his mother didn't want him traveling around because it's "not safe" (ughhhhhhhh), was coached by and then befriended Honus Wagner, and then ultimately died from lung cancer from spending a lifetime doing odd jobs in steel mills...good call, great-grandma!
I was a mini baseball historian as a kid, way more into the old timey stuff than the modern game, which was probably a good thing considering my first baseball memories are from 1993.
Is it any real surprise that my favorite Simpsons episode is 'Homer at the Bat'?
Kruk and Kipe and Glen Kuiper and Ray Fosse and Jon Miller and Dave Fleming and Vince Cotroneo and Ken Korach are all GOAT
I was a bigger fan when I didn't realize how random and lucky winning the World Series really is.
Watching baseball is great when Melatonin stops working
Watching Spurs does the trick for me.
Did he befriend Cap Anson or Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown?
No, but he did earn an equally random nickname that I've never been able to figure out...Soapy.
My grandfather was known as Soapy. Yep.
I remember Ken Griffey Slugfest for the N64. In a full season, everyone's stats would be pretty normal, but Griffey would hit .450 with 95 home runs and three hundred RBI.
Because of this game: