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Originally Posted by Sean
One of my favorite baseball moments was Rickey passing Brock (and acting like a jerk) in an afternoon game, then being upstaged that night by Nolan Ryan's 7th no-hitter. Every sports report that I saw led with Ryan and made Rickey a footnote.
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In partial defense of Rickey (though the Brock moment is indefensible), most of what he ever did or said was harmless, and I've heard a lot of great stories about him. One that came out recently was set in the Mets clubhouse while players discussed who would and wouldn't playoff shares. Rickey demanded full shares for everyone, yelling "F--- that, you can change someone's life".
It is a bummer that the classic Olurud moment supposedly never really happened though.
BTW- he and the A's got no hit by Ryan the year prior.. AND Rickey was Ryan's 5000th K.