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All-In [27154]
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Fun baseball stories
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Apr 8, 2024, 6:45 PM
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Any fun baseball stories from the pros?
I saw Ryan Klesko play single-A ball in Sumter.
I was also at a Braves game in right field as a kid, and there was a guy beside us who said David Justice had a nipple ring and we (or mostly he) kept shouting at David to show us.
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I got drunk with Bruce Sutter at LongHorn.***
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Apr 8, 2024, 6:51 PM
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Talked to Catfish Hunter for a while
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Apr 8, 2024, 7:27 PM
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back when you could still hang glide off the top of glassy. Got a picture somewhere
He asked me if I was watching or jumping, I said just watching. He patted me on the head and said smart boy
When I worked at Beautiful Duncan Park (Home of Good Time Baseball)
I met several before they went to the majors -
Ryne Sandberg, Mickey Morandini, Keith Moreland
Washed a lot of towels and sweaty jocks, delivered a lot of pizzas to the locker room
Some coming back through after as mangers etc to
Larry Bowa, Mel Roberts
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Juan time maybe mid-80s at Fulton County
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Apr 8, 2024, 8:04 PM
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Several hours (like 4+) before first pitch, I am on the first row on the third baseline and Dwight Gooden and Darrell Strawberry are playing toss from third to home.
I think me and my dad were the only two people in the whole stadium.
I’m all like Mr. Strawberry, Mr. Gooden, could I please get an autograph? They ignored me. I was sad.
No recollection of who won the game, but both of those bastids turned out to be drug addicts and I dont give dosfucks about beisbol.
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Saw Andrew Jones play in Macon***
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Apr 8, 2024, 8:08 PM
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All-In [43789]
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Good reminder. I saw freddie freeman at gwinett***
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Apr 8, 2024, 8:09 PM
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Got tosee the Yankees vs Red Sox @ Fenway......
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Apr 8, 2024, 8:10 PM
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Maris and Mantle.
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When do you celebrate your 100th?***
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Apr 8, 2024, 8:14 PM
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32 years?******
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Apr 8, 2024, 8:17 PM
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Orange Blooded [4445]
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i go to Fenway every year
Apr 9, 2024, 9:16 AM
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will be there this Saturday for the Angels game
Sox-Yankees games are really the least fun these days... guys take it too seriously.. see more fights than at any other game
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Watched Sparky Anderson coaching Rock Hill Cardinals
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Apr 8, 2024, 8:14 PM
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In 1965. Met Stan Musial there one game. My dad played briefly in Cardinals farm system.
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When do you celebrate your 100th?***
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Apr 8, 2024, 8:16 PM
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30 years?******
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Apr 8, 2024, 8:17 PM
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I met Tom Berenger and Charlies Sheen at a Grand Opening on Hilton Head
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Apr 8, 2024, 8:25 PM
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of a Batting Cage facility, the name escapes me, circa 1987. Tom was charming and kind enough to answer my questions about the filming of Platoon. Charlie was hungover, sweaty and reeked of alcohol.
Met Johnny Bench at Jim's Paradise one night around the same time.
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Orange Blooded [4445]
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Re: I met Tom Berenger and Charlies Sheen at a Grand Opening on Hilton Head
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Apr 9, 2024, 9:14 AM
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i bet our paths crossed somewhere on HHI - lived there all thru the 80's
i met Sheen as well, he was hammered
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Re: Fun baseball stories
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Apr 8, 2024, 8:57 PM
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Game 6 1995 World Series at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium with my son. Bravos beat the Indians 1-0. Drove back to Greenville amped and went to work the next day still juiced.
Hearing my dad talking about watching a very skinny black kid rocking BP back in the 50’s during Spring Training. Dad was in the Athletics organization. He and another pitcher were watching this guy turn on the ball and were impressed. The future major leaguer was Hank Aaron.
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Went to CU GT football game that same day and
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Apr 8, 2024, 9:05 PM
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watched game 6 at Jock and Jill's midtown. Met Craig Sager that night.
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Now that I think about it
Apr 8, 2024, 11:54 PM
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I was in ATL for I think game two of the World Series in Maybe ‘95?
Deion Sanders played for the Braves and I think Ed Sprague from the Blue Jays hit a home run late in the game to win it for them
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Oculus Spirit [83135]
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Saw Mantle, Berra, Whitey Ford, etc. play in old timers
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Apr 8, 2024, 9:14 PM
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game in the ATL.
Saw Mays, Clemente, Stargell, Bobby Bonds, Seaver , Nolan Ryan, Joe Morgan, play against Braves.
Attended game 6 and final game in WS against Blue Jays, a 4-3 loss in 10 innings in 92.
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Legend [17312]
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Had a beer with Skip Carey in Buckhead
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Apr 8, 2024, 9:18 PM
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Well he was in a small bar same time I was and we met.
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Lot o points [163012]
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Saw Michael Jordan ground out vs Gvl Braves
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Apr 8, 2024, 9:43 PM
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also one time I was wearing. Milwaukee Braves logo hat at Turner Field and Ted and Jane walked by me - he did a double take on the hat.
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Lot o points [163012]
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Attended the 1964 All Star game at Shea
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Apr 8, 2024, 9:43 PM
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became a Mets fan. That was a long time ago.
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Oculus Spirit [83135]
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Attended games in 15 MLB stadiums:
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Apr 8, 2024, 10:13 PM
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1. Old Marlins where Dolphins play
2. New Marlins Field
3. ATL Fulton County
4. ATL Turner Field
5. Old Baltimore Memorial
6. Old Yankee Stadium
7. Citi Field in Queens
8. Fenway
9. Wrigley
10. Coors Field
11. Candlestick Park SF
12. Pac Bell or whatever it's called where Giants play now
13. Oakland Memorial
14. Dodger Stadium
15. Tampa Bay not sure what it's called now
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Candlestick was wild.....
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Apr 9, 2024, 8:49 AM
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Saw a doubleheader there. Froze the first game. Second game we moved into sun. Burned up. Had three guys partying behind us. Family tried to sit in front of them. They told family it wasn't a good place to sit. Family moved. Smoke party continued. Hilarity ensued.
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Get good seats and they give you bunch o balls
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Apr 8, 2024, 10:14 PM
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These seats were great.
Gravity is screwed up
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Re: Fun baseball stories
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Apr 9, 2024, 12:04 AM
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when i was a kid i went to see my godmother in queens. was a yankee fan out of the womb and went with uncles to yankee stadium for game. went down to seats early. my idol at that time was thurman munson. had my cap on backwards because of him catching. he came over and said hey to me and i was floored. great memory as a kid. still wear all my yankee caps backwards to this day. was crushed when he passed. i believe he would have been the greatest catcher to play if not for plane accident. go yanks.
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UR channeling Celtic....
Apr 9, 2024, 8:51 AM
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Kool.
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Tore my rotator cuff when I slipped and fell on a baseball
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Apr 9, 2024, 9:02 AM
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Came back with some INCREDIBLE super strength in my pitching arm. I could really throw gas. Ended up being signed by the Cubs and got them out of their slump and into the playoffs. Arm popped again and I ended up just being a regular kid again. Fun times, but my step Dad tried to be my agent and he was shady AF. Best thing to happen out of the whole thing was my Mom left him for one of the guys on the Cubs team.
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Oculus Spirit [85367]
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Wow, that is crazy! So cool!!!***
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Apr 9, 2024, 9:34 AM
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Lot o points [155984]
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My wife was the braves reporter for Fox 5 for a short while.
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Apr 9, 2024, 9:10 AM
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Andruw Jones proudly showed me the custom interior in his Lexus LS400 that he had to pay someone to drive because he didn’t have a license. My Spanish was mediocre at the time so it was a fairly choppy conversation, and he didn’t speak a lick of English.
Did a few bumps at the Cheetah with Otis Nixon too.
Might have made up the last one.
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one of my most favorite sports experiences
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Apr 9, 2024, 9:20 AM
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in Fenway: saw game 5 of the Sox-Rays playoff series in 2021... Sox walked 'em off to win the series
Fenway was f'n rocking all night... too much fun
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Oculus Spirit [85367]
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I grew up a White Sox fan because I got a really cool hat when I was about 8
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Apr 9, 2024, 9:31 AM
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I ended up with like 6 hats, a sweet Starter Jacket, and even had a gold white sox charm on my gold necklace when I was like 12.
I had never been to a White Sox game. Fast forward to when I'm 22. I make a rugby all star team. We travel out to Colorado to play other US all star teams. We have a night to spend in Denver and they take us to a Rockies game and guess who they are playing? The eventual 2005 World Series Champion White Sox.
We have terrible seats in the outfield, but this lady who is working in the stands tells a couple of us to come see her after a couple innings.
We go back there and she puts us in the 2nd row behind the dugout. We tell her thank you and get our picture taken with her.
And one time, Sid Bream spoke at our church.
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I did blow with
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Apr 9, 2024, 9:36 AM
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uggla and heyward. freddie was in there w/ us and didn't partake.
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Orange Blooded [3720]
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Bob Feller
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Apr 9, 2024, 9:56 AM
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Autographed a baseball for me
Was at an Indians Spring Training game because I guy I played softball with was signed as a replacement player during the strike. He was 38, and still throwing gas. 89 fastball with a wicked sinker too
He made the team and flew up to Cleveland for opening night, only for the strike to be settled, and he never made it to the bigs
Eff pro baseball. I'll watch the heck out of some college baseball though
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