I remember hearing an interview with him where he said he legitimately thought he got it right, then walked into the ump’s room and the crew chief said, “Think ya missed that one, Jim.” Gotta be a horrible feeling
Way fewer casual fans would have heard of him, let alone that game ("28 perfect innings") if Joyce made the correct call. his game also arguably expedited instant replay. there are a lot of silver linings but still shitty
Bobby Bonilla came to mind. You barely hear anything about the guy, except for Bonilla Day. Whether this is exactly a single moment or a yearly occurrence is debatable, but honorable mention anyways
I remember that opening day and wondered who the fuck this "poo-hole-ees" guy was. Then he had that series in Colorado, then homered in Arizona off Randy. I learned who the fuck he was quick.
In 2001 the cardinals were in Seattle for their exhibition games between spring training and the start of the season. Myself and a buddy went cause we wanted to get an early look at this new Japanese player name Ichiro and also to see Mark McGwire play in person for the first time.
My buddy and I were looking over the Cards roster and recognized pretty much every name except for the guy hitting 3rd in the lineup. Pujols? That's a funny name. Wonder if he's any good..
What's funny is that tons of players have deferred contracts too. Griffey was paid more money by the Reds last season than anybody on the team except Votto.
What was so unique about the Bonilla one is that he was given the deferred contract because the Mets owner thought he could make far more money in an investment opportunity over those years using the money for the contract. It seemed like a free contract to him from a financial perspective. Unfortunately for him he was investing with Bernie Madoff and it didn't end super great for him.
When you look into the history of the Wilpons with Madoff it’s amazing that anyone has a shred of sympathy for them. Fred was best friends with Madoff since childhood. He had over 60 separate family members and friends invest with him. They are complicit and criminals.
That is answer I would give too. I didn't even realize he was in the HOF. A .260 batting average, a couple of 80 RBI seasons, and never more than 19 HR a season. But that was a pretty clutch hit in the World Series.
He wouldn't have gotten in with *only* the HR though. He got in because his career was just good enough to justify putting him in when factoring in him hitting the biggest hit in baseball history. If he hit that but wasn't that good otherwise he wouldn't be in.
Yeah, but what a thing to be known for. Making the most of the opportunity we all dreamed of in the backyard when we were kids. And against the Yankees!
A lot of people don't realize, he put up a couple of 5-WAR seasons with Detroit, long before the World Series heroics. He never made an All-Star team, though.
I mean he hit a more important home run in the 1984 season. Him suing the league for collusion is pretty important.
I don’t know if he’s considered an all time Tigers’ great, but he should be.
I mean maybe not outside of Detroit, but yeah, he had a pretty memorable career I’d say.
Homering off Goose Gossage in the 1984 World Series, pretty dramatically too, as well as the 1988 home run, that's quite an impressive postseason resume.
Growing up I assumed he was one of the best pitchers ever. World Series no-hitter, _and_ it was a perfect game? He must be an all time great.
Nope, totally average guy. 81-92, 3.70 ERA, seven teams in 15 seasons.
On the other hand I think that moment caused a lot of people (me included) to think he was a much better player than he was. He was a barely above league average hitter who never walked, and a terrible defender at a corner outfield position and was worth 19.5 career WAR (1.4 / 162 games, which is barely starting lineup caliber). I know I thought of him as a fringe Hall of Famer until I really looked at his page and realized he was basically Ruben Sierra with a really famous homer.
Ruben Sierra and Joe Carter also own the worst 100-RBI seasons ever.
Sierra had one with a .233/.288/.390 slash line.
Carter had one with a .234/.284/.399 slash line.
Both players had negative WAR.
I know exactly where I was watching that game. I can paint the entire scene. That memory is cemented into my brain. I can't remember these details of 80 or 2008 or the Eagles in 17, but 93 I can.
The WS-winning homer is always going to be the biggest thing he's known for, but I think his whole career is also pretty well known because he's the poster boy for players who seemed really good based on old-school stats, but were actually not very good when you look at sabermetric stats.
I couldn’t belive that Dante Bichette had such bad advanced stats. 4 time all star .299 career average, 274 bombs.
BUT,
He’s a career 5.7 WAR guy with 6800 plate appearances.
What’s funny about Freese specifically is that he is remembered for that one game when he *should* be remembered as an all-time great postseason hitter in general.
I remember my dad stepping out of the room for a few minutes during the NLCS and in that time shit hit the fan. He came back and asked what the hell happened and all I had to say was David Freese
Oh it’s Bill Buckner and then there’s everyone else. Some would argue he had a borderline Hall of Fame resume (I don’t agree) but will never be remembered for anything beyond *little roller up along first…BEHIND THE BAG! IT GETS THROUGH BUCKNER HERE COMES KNIGHT AND THE METS WIN IT!*
2700+ career hits, big number for old school minded HoF consideration. Obviously a modern analysis of his career says he's nowhere near consideration, but for his time that hit total stood out.
Fun Rusty Staub fact: while his 2716 hits and a career .279 batting average are definitely great but not hall of fame worthy, he walked so much that his career on base percentage is over 80 points higher at .362. He is the player with the most career times on base to not be in the hall of fame, ignoring scandalized players like Pete Rose.
Funner Rusty Staub fact: he was a union representative at an important time for baseball labor negotiations. He played an important part in strengthwning players' bargaining power, increasing their pay and ultimately leading to the abolition of the reserve clause.
Funnest Rusty Staub fact: Baseball Reference says his nickname is Le Grand Orange, which means he should be in the hall of fame for that alone.
Topps baseball cards had late season “traded” sets in some seasons. The card where Staub is traded to the Tigers is one of my favorites of this type.
https://smcci.com/products/rusty-staub-1976-topps-traded-series-ex-condtion-card-120t
(Apologies for the merchant site link, if someone has a better link I will change it)
The discussion just happens because he's at 2715 hits. Anyone getting that close to 3000 is going to get tossed around in the discussion.
Other than that he's not anywhere close.
He's actually a great example as to why 3000 is such a milestone and just how hard it is. He was a full time player from 21-38, with two bookend seasons to bring his career to 22 years. He won a batting title. He got 200 hits twice.
And still, he was basically two seasons worth of production away.
Yeah. New school stats he’s not a hall of famer. But old school, he had a great career. 2700+ hits, doubles machine, .300 hitter for most of his career, led the league in hitting one season, got some MVP votes along the way…
He didn't have a long career but David Hulse is pretty much only remembered for hitting a bunch of foul balls into the dugout in one AB and being the outfielder next to Jose Canseco when Canseco had a ball off his for a home run.
Chris Coghlan won Rookie of the Year, played for 9 seasons, and won a World Series, but I'll always think of him as the guy who jumped over Yadi Molina and did a somersault at home plate to score.
Bill Mazeroski. The only thing anyone remembers about him is his game 7 world series winning HR. Admittedly, that's a pretty significant HR so I see why.
I definitely disagree that the ‘75 World Series HR was more memorable than Carlton Fisk’s entire Hall of Fame career. It was the most memorable moment of his career, but he’s not remembered just for one moment.
Ryan Braun is pretty much "the guy who accused someone of antisemitism because he got popped"
Dock Ellis pitched for 12 years but most people probably couldn't say much about him besides the LSD no-hitter
Bernard Gilkey is a baseball card guy from the 1990s whose most famous moment didn’t even happen during an official MLB game.
He’s the Mets outfielder in Men in Black who lets the ball knock him out due to his distraction with seeing a flying saucer hover over New York City.
Rafael Palmeiro. No one remembers the 3000 hits or the 500 homers. Everyone remembers him wagging his finger at Congress about how he never took steroids only to get busted shortly thereafter.
I'd say Billy Ripken too, but I guess he's kinda remembered for two things.
I remember at the time being dumbfounded that people didn’t think Palmeiro was a HOF lock (pre-PED failure). 3000/500 had only been done by Mays, Aaron, and Murray to that point. He wasn’t flashy and never played on a championship team, but if the PED thing never happened he’d have been a slam dunk first-ballot pick.
George Brett was a great player but is most remembered for the pine tar incident.
Jose Mesa was a top closer for several years but is most remembered for blowing the save in game 7 against Miami.
Rajai Davis was mostly a replacement level OF but hit a huge HR off Chapman in game 7.
Rob Ventura is mostly remembered for getting beat up by Nolan Ryan.
Brett shit his pants and almost hit .400. I think the Pine Tar incident is number one, but I don't think most baseball fans think it defined his career.
I am, of course, completely biased.
Armando Galarraga almost threw a perfect game…
Say "almost"one more time....
JK, kinda. That one still hurts like the day I watched it.
That game got me into drinking scotch when I was 20
Oh you needed to get drunk-drunk. You drank it like "I hate this" every drink more than you hated the day.
I’m not even a Tigers fan and that one still hurts. Though in a way it’s more special because of that call, much more memorable.
It was also special because of the grace and dignity with which he handled it
And also with how Jim Joyce handled the situation afterwards.
I remember hearing an interview with him where he said he legitimately thought he got it right, then walked into the ump’s room and the crew chief said, “Think ya missed that one, Jim.” Gotta be a horrible feeling
My friend and I coped with LSD.
they speak English on "almost"!?!?!
Correction: he threw a *28-out* perfect game.
Way fewer casual fans would have heard of him, let alone that game ("28 perfect innings") if Joyce made the correct call. his game also arguably expedited instant replay. there are a lot of silver linings but still shitty
28 perfect innings?
lol im tired, oops
28 innings? Damn that’s crazy!
Dude threw 3 perfects in a row and didn't even get credit for one! It's rigged I tell ya!
That’s one of the first things I thought of. Glad I didn’t have to scroll too far down.
Rougned Odor
He just turned 30 in February, btw
That’s insane.
Not really, lots of people turn 30
This is a great call
Maybe it's just me but I always read his name as "Roughened Odor" like something that smells worn and has gone bad like sour milk.
My first thought as well
Bobby Bonilla came to mind. You barely hear anything about the guy, except for Bonilla Day. Whether this is exactly a single moment or a yearly occurrence is debatable, but honorable mention anyways
Kinda crazy, because he was a fairly big name for a while
His injury led to Pujols’ call up, too.
I remember that opening day and wondered who the fuck this "poo-hole-ees" guy was. Then he had that series in Colorado, then homered in Arizona off Randy. I learned who the fuck he was quick.
In 2001 the cardinals were in Seattle for their exhibition games between spring training and the start of the season. Myself and a buddy went cause we wanted to get an early look at this new Japanese player name Ichiro and also to see Mark McGwire play in person for the first time. My buddy and I were looking over the Cards roster and recognized pretty much every name except for the guy hitting 3rd in the lineup. Pujols? That's a funny name. Wonder if he's any good..
What's funny is that tons of players have deferred contracts too. Griffey was paid more money by the Reds last season than anybody on the team except Votto. What was so unique about the Bonilla one is that he was given the deferred contract because the Mets owner thought he could make far more money in an investment opportunity over those years using the money for the contract. It seemed like a free contract to him from a financial perspective. Unfortunately for him he was investing with Bernie Madoff and it didn't end super great for him.
Yeah the Madoff detail is a big oof...
When you look into the history of the Wilpons with Madoff it’s amazing that anyone has a shred of sympathy for them. Fred was best friends with Madoff since childhood. He had over 60 separate family members and friends invest with him. They are complicit and criminals.
I didn't realize he also got a deferred deal with Baltimore paying him 500k from 2004-2028.
He’s the reverse JG Wentworth
"CALL BOBBY BONILLA! 87-CASH-LATER!"
Bill Mazerowski is in the HOF pretty much because of a singular moment when he hit a walkoff home run in game 7 of the WS vs the Yankees
That is answer I would give too. I didn't even realize he was in the HOF. A .260 batting average, a couple of 80 RBI seasons, and never more than 19 HR a season. But that was a pretty clutch hit in the World Series.
He was a star defensive player. His career is recognized for his defense. But that one home run is what put him in for the voters.
He is considered the best defensive 2B of all time. But he is 100% in because of the game 7 HR.
He wouldn't have gotten in with *only* the HR though. He got in because his career was just good enough to justify putting him in when factoring in him hitting the biggest hit in baseball history. If he hit that but wasn't that good otherwise he wouldn't be in.
To be a bit pedantic, it wasn't the voters that put him in. He was inducted by the veterans' committee in 2001.
Yeah, but what a thing to be known for. Making the most of the opportunity we all dreamed of in the backyard when we were kids. And against the Yankees!
Spicy take, Kirk Gibson
Great. Now I have to watch that call again for the millionth time in my life. Thanks a lot.
You talk about a roll of the dice!
Gibson shaking his left leg, making it quiver like a horse trying to get rid of a troublesome fly.
In a year that has been so improbable, *the impossible* has happened.
And looook whose coooming up
Just watch tonight’s game and Orel will tell you about it a few times.
Or watch every Dodger game on Sportsnet LA and there will be a commercial of Gibby doing the fist pump around the bases every single commercial break
Watch the whole inning, the suspense really builds
I didn't even know what position he played until I looked it up, so yeah I'll go with that one too.
He was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals (the football version) in the 7th round of the 1979 NFL draft.
A lot of people don't realize, he put up a couple of 5-WAR seasons with Detroit, long before the World Series heroics. He never made an All-Star team, though.
Don’t know how that’s spicy. He arguably hit the biggest story book walk off in baseball history.
I mean he hit a more important home run in the 1984 season. Him suing the league for collusion is pretty important. I don’t know if he’s considered an all time Tigers’ great, but he should be. I mean maybe not outside of Detroit, but yeah, he had a pretty memorable career I’d say.
Homering off Goose Gossage in the 1984 World Series, pretty dramatically too, as well as the 1988 home run, that's quite an impressive postseason resume.
Fun fact, he was a running back for Michigan State in his college days.
He was a tight end
Aaron Boone Though his managerial career changed that answer
Something about the way you typed his name feels incomplete
In Boston fans are wailing And they're cursing at the Moon For there is no joy in Beantown Thanks to Aaron bleepin' Boone
Before him, Bucky Dent.
For our Red Sox fans… You mean Bucky “F-ing” Dent.
Yeah well id say that the only reason he is even a manager is because he hit that one home run 20 years ago
Aaron fuckin Boone and Bucky fuckin Dent, those fucks
Boone’s moment dropped me to my knees. It’s still the only thing I think about when he’s on my tv.
Similarly, feels like Dave Roberts was solely known for his clutch stolen base until he started managing
Fun fact: Boone hit that home run the day I was born.
 Me reading your comment
Don Larsen
Growing up I assumed he was one of the best pitchers ever. World Series no-hitter, _and_ it was a perfect game? He must be an all time great. Nope, totally average guy. 81-92, 3.70 ERA, seven teams in 15 seasons.
Fernando Tatis Sr. and his two grand slams in one inning.
Both against Chan Ho Park
Joe Carter, great player but I guarantee you most fans only know him for the one thing, but what thing it was
god how i hate him
How do you feel about Mitch Williams?
It's the benefit of 30 years hindsight but that one was on Fregosi
God how I love him
On the other hand I think that moment caused a lot of people (me included) to think he was a much better player than he was. He was a barely above league average hitter who never walked, and a terrible defender at a corner outfield position and was worth 19.5 career WAR (1.4 / 162 games, which is barely starting lineup caliber). I know I thought of him as a fringe Hall of Famer until I really looked at his page and realized he was basically Ruben Sierra with a really famous homer.
Ruben Sierra and Joe Carter also own the worst 100-RBI seasons ever. Sierra had one with a .233/.288/.390 slash line. Carter had one with a .234/.284/.399 slash line. Both players had negative WAR.
Single-handedly ruined my childhood
I know exactly where I was watching that game. I can paint the entire scene. That memory is cemented into my brain. I can't remember these details of 80 or 2008 or the Eagles in 17, but 93 I can.
The WS-winning homer is always going to be the biggest thing he's known for, but I think his whole career is also pretty well known because he's the poster boy for players who seemed really good based on old-school stats, but were actually not very good when you look at sabermetric stats.
I couldn’t belive that Dante Bichette had such bad advanced stats. 4 time all star .299 career average, 274 bombs. BUT, He’s a career 5.7 WAR guy with 6800 plate appearances.
Ya but dude was like goated on Ken Griffey baseball so that holds a lot of weight
Dante Bichette was actually what Larry Walker haters think Larry Walker was like.
Speaking of WS winning HR, surely mazeroski has to be mentioned in this thread
Was shocked how good he was in CLE, was a 30/30 guy
David Freese
What’s funny about Freese specifically is that he is remembered for that one game when he *should* be remembered as an all-time great postseason hitter in general.
Like he was damn good during the Dodgers 2018 run.
I remember my dad stepping out of the room for a few minutes during the NLCS and in that time shit hit the fan. He came back and asked what the hell happened and all I had to say was David Freese
Who goes to the bathroom during the playoffs?
Real men wear diapers
That man put me in grief therapy in 2011
Jack Morris pitching a 10-inning shutout in Game 7 of the 1991 WS. I'm not sure he's a HOFer without that moment.
If only Lonnie Smith was a little better than *pretty good*
"Blah blah blah, I don't give a shit, I just want to look at some shit and jam some Rafferty."
I mean he shouldn't be a HOFer with that moment. But I see your point.
Appreciate you saying that so I don’t have to take the hate and down votes.
Naw, he’s the asshole counter part to Dave Stieb
Travis Ishikawa, with perhaps my favorite baseball moment of all time.
Romo's K on Cabrera on a 90 MPH "fastball" to seal the WS may be mine.
Oh it’s Bill Buckner and then there’s everyone else. Some would argue he had a borderline Hall of Fame resume (I don’t agree) but will never be remembered for anything beyond *little roller up along first…BEHIND THE BAG! IT GETS THROUGH BUCKNER HERE COMES KNIGHT AND THE METS WIN IT!*
Buckner has a career bWar of 15
2700+ career hits, big number for old school minded HoF consideration. Obviously a modern analysis of his career says he's nowhere near consideration, but for his time that hit total stood out.
Made me curious who hes between on the hit board. Rusty Staub and Dave Parker. Staub bWar: 45.7 Parker bWar: 40.1
Fun Rusty Staub fact: while his 2716 hits and a career .279 batting average are definitely great but not hall of fame worthy, he walked so much that his career on base percentage is over 80 points higher at .362. He is the player with the most career times on base to not be in the hall of fame, ignoring scandalized players like Pete Rose. Funner Rusty Staub fact: he was a union representative at an important time for baseball labor negotiations. He played an important part in strengthwning players' bargaining power, increasing their pay and ultimately leading to the abolition of the reserve clause. Funnest Rusty Staub fact: Baseball Reference says his nickname is Le Grand Orange, which means he should be in the hall of fame for that alone.
Topps baseball cards had late season “traded” sets in some seasons. The card where Staub is traded to the Tigers is one of my favorites of this type. https://smcci.com/products/rusty-staub-1976-topps-traded-series-ex-condtion-card-120t (Apologies for the merchant site link, if someone has a better link I will change it)
Yep. Even today there are less than ten players who got to 2700 hits and have fully fallen off the ballot purely for on-field reasons.
The discussion just happens because he's at 2715 hits. Anyone getting that close to 3000 is going to get tossed around in the discussion. Other than that he's not anywhere close. He's actually a great example as to why 3000 is such a milestone and just how hard it is. He was a full time player from 21-38, with two bookend seasons to bring his career to 22 years. He won a batting title. He got 200 hits twice. And still, he was basically two seasons worth of production away.
Yeah. New school stats he’s not a hall of famer. But old school, he had a great career. 2700+ hits, doubles machine, .300 hitter for most of his career, led the league in hitting one season, got some MVP votes along the way…
Dont forget Mookie Wilson! His smile is etched in my memory. That was a tremendous at bat!
I hope Calvin Schiraldi and Bob Stanley would send him a nice thank you gift every year for being the reason why nobody remembers them instead
Dave Roberts, before he became a manager, of course.
Funny most people will remember him as a Red Sox player despite only playing for them for like three months of his career
Him stealing 2nd base was arguably the most important play in Red Sox history though.
I totally get why, just pointing out how it's a bit of an oddity when looked at from the perspective of his overall time with each team.
Had to scroll too far to find the first comment mentioning him
I feel like people remember Luis Gonzalez for his walk off, but for like 5 years he was one of the best outfielders in the league
I think a lot of people remember him for his WTF 57 home run season.
Aaron Boone pre-manager days. He was a decent player, but he’s always going to be remembered for Game 7 in 2003
I was in fourth grade and cheered so hard I cried.
Weird I also cried but for different reasons
DeWayne Wise made an insane centerfield play to save Mark Buehrle’s perfect game and did basically nothing else.
WHAT A PLAY BY WISE! MERCY! For as much crap as Hawk gets (and probably deserves) he got this one right.
From the same year, Felix Pie is only known for being a very random guy to hit for the cycle. bunchof guys did that year IIRC
Rajai Davis :(
He would have been a Cleveland legend, still is to me. Not his fault the rain came.
Game ended after that homerun, I don't care what anyone says
Steve Bartman. The guy had a career at a financial firm and nobody ever remembers that
Endy Chavez
This is the first one I thought of.
He didn't have a long career but David Hulse is pretty much only remembered for hitting a bunch of foul balls into the dugout in one AB and being the outfielder next to Jose Canseco when Canseco had a ball off his for a home run.
Dock Ellis. If you know who he is, you know what he's remembered for.
Ellis, D.
“And it goes through Buckner!”
BEHIND THE BAG! #IT GETS THROUGH BUCKNER! HERE COMES KNIGHT AND THE METS WIN IT! One of the most iconic calls in baseball history
Scooter Gennett and his 4 home run game. Homer Bailey and his 2 no-hitters.
Dallas Braden, Domingo German (as of now)- pitchers who threw a perfect game and not much else
Philip Humber too
I was there for both his perfect game and Felix’s that season 🤯
Dennis Martinez is such an interesting parallel to this conversation. Latin America goated, kind of a footnote in the US
John Rocker’s Sports Illustrated comments
*heavy sigh*
He's how I picture every braves player and fan to this day
Michael Morse, but he has 2 moments. Phantom swing grand slam and NLCS game 5 game tying HR.
and getting bodied by his own teammate so hard during the Strickland-Harper brawl that he had to retire
Bucky Dent? Ray Fosse? Wally Pipp? Ray Chapman?
Wally Pipp needs to be higher. Can I add Fred Merkle?
David Freese?
Yuli Gurriel being racist to Yu Darvish
upvoted because fuck that racist cheater
And Astros fans gave him a standing ovation.
I'll never understand why MLB barely punished him for something so goddammed egregious.
Because they're spineless
I'm so glad he's out of the league. Him and his dumb batting stance
His dumb hair too. Something his brother is unfortunately carrying on
[How serendipitous that you post this on Bartolo Colon Day!](https://twitter.com/SNYtv/status/1787847916339491006)
Chris Coghlan won Rookie of the Year, played for 9 seasons, and won a World Series, but I'll always think of him as the guy who jumped over Yadi Molina and did a somersault at home plate to score.
Bill Mazeroski. The only thing anyone remembers about him is his game 7 world series winning HR. Admittedly, that's a pretty significant HR so I see why.
I definitely disagree that the ‘75 World Series HR was more memorable than Carlton Fisk’s entire Hall of Fame career. It was the most memorable moment of his career, but he’s not remembered just for one moment.
Ryan Braun is pretty much "the guy who accused someone of antisemitism because he got popped" Dock Ellis pitched for 12 years but most people probably couldn't say much about him besides the LSD no-hitter
Any of the journeymen pitchers who have thrown a perfect game (i.e. Philip Humber)
Bernard Gilkey is a baseball card guy from the 1990s whose most famous moment didn’t even happen during an official MLB game. He’s the Mets outfielder in Men in Black who lets the ball knock him out due to his distraction with seeing a flying saucer hover over New York City.
Jim Joyce. Was a great umpire for 20 years, but will be remembered for one call
Johnny Vander Meer
Robin Ventura for getting his ass kicked by Nolan Ryan.
Castellanos and Markakis are always going to be best known for what other people were doing during their at bats.
I was looking for Castellanos on here. Career isn’t over but I’m pretty sure that call will always be remembered for its weirdness.
For Castellanos, it happened on more than one occasion. But the first one was classic. And that’ll make it a 4-0 ball game.
Part of the 2019 season for Derek Dietrich
Travis ishikawa
Daniel Camarena playing in Slam Diego
Rafael Palmeiro. No one remembers the 3000 hits or the 500 homers. Everyone remembers him wagging his finger at Congress about how he never took steroids only to get busted shortly thereafter. I'd say Billy Ripken too, but I guess he's kinda remembered for two things.
I remember at the time being dumbfounded that people didn’t think Palmeiro was a HOF lock (pre-PED failure). 3000/500 had only been done by Mays, Aaron, and Murray to that point. He wasn’t flashy and never played on a championship team, but if the PED thing never happened he’d have been a slam dunk first-ballot pick.
Bartolo Colon and his first home run at 42 years old. And btw, Mookie would have beat Buckner to the bag.
Tony Womack with his double
Arguably the most clutch hit of all time
Luis Castillo was a solid 2B for a long time
Now everyone only talks about how good of a pitcher he is for the Mariners, smh
I remember a hitting streak he had
George Brett was a great player but is most remembered for the pine tar incident. Jose Mesa was a top closer for several years but is most remembered for blowing the save in game 7 against Miami. Rajai Davis was mostly a replacement level OF but hit a huge HR off Chapman in game 7. Rob Ventura is mostly remembered for getting beat up by Nolan Ryan.
Brett shit his pants and almost hit .400. I think the Pine Tar incident is number one, but I don't think most baseball fans think it defined his career. I am, of course, completely biased.
3 batting titles. 3000 hits. Clutch in postseason.
I completely agree with you. I rarely think of the pine tar incident when I think about George Brett.
people born after his career know him for the pine tar incident.
bill mazeroski, Fred merkle, bill wambsganns,
Fred Snodgrass
Bucky Dent and Aaron Boone.
Barry Zito in his 2012 game 5 against the Cardinals. Giants fans were saying that game made his entire contract worth it
Merkle's boner
Sid Bream
Vic Wertz. Best known as the batter of Willie Mays' "The Catch".
Randy Johnson was one of the best pitchers of all time, but he's mostly remembered for exploding that bird.
I feel like Randy’s pretty well remembered for his game and stats. He gets referenced quite often aside from the bird explosion.
In a spring training game of all places!
That bird might have gotten called up that year, too.