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Posted By: boxingcardman

Wilbur Wood: He had some great seasons but go zero respect because he was a fat knuckleballer. My first glove was a Wilbur Wood model. I painstakingly broke in that glove all winter, used it for a few years, and my mom threw it out. Man I wish I still had that one. I still have the bat I got at the same time (though it's cracked over the years).

In basketball, Chuck Nevitt. He was the last man on the bench for the 1985 "Showtime" Lakers. When the Lakers had a great lead late in the game, the crowd in the Forum would start chanting for Riley to put in the 7'5" Chuckmeister because having his awkward behind in there meant that the game was over. I saw him on the UCLA campus one spring (I guess the Lakers were working out there). Amazing that a human being can be that tall. His hip was at my throat level.

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