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RIP Biff Pocoroba
Only an average player on some really bad Braves teams, but somehow he became a favorite of mine and many other hard-core Braves fans.
Rest in Peace Biff. .
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Biff
One of the best names in the history of sports--would have been great as a boxer
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When the guys that were on cards in packs that you opened as a kid start dying then you know you are getting old .
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If that's not a name for the ages, I don't know what is. Sorta like Spook Jacobs. If he played for the pathetic Padres, no doubt Jerry Coleman would have named him, "the Biffer."
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Spook was a tough one to find for the 56 Topps Hocus Focus set
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RIP Biff, even sadder is that he is like the 10th player from the 82 pennant winning Braves team to pass away
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One from the “all name team” as my friends and I used to call it. But hate to correct you Larry, the Braves did not win the 82 pennant!
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Off the top of my head I could think of Pocoroba, Pascual Perez, Rick Mahler, and Bob Watson, then looking at the roster I saw Donnie Moore (forgot he was on that team) and Rick Camp (how did I forget him?), and then finally I checked each player, Tom Hausman (3 games), Larry Owen (2 games), and Rufino Linares (died 22 years ago ). ETA: Oops, missed Carlos Diaz who pitched in 19 games.
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Wow, I can't believe that many players have passed from the 82 team...seems like alot. Not a Biff story, but from his last year 1984, My wife and I are sitting in a local San Diego Mexican restaurant and I look over and see Rick Mahler and Jerry Royster having lunch before a night game and they were sucking down the margaritas like they were going out of style. To say they were getting hammered was an understatement. I told my wife that Mahler was not starting that night and Royster was a bench player, so they probably knew they weren't getting in the game. Wrong, Mahler came into the game in relief and Royster pinch-hit. A different time.
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Add Claudell Washington and now it's eleven '82 Braves gone.
It has been 38 years... .
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It can be 38 years...I'm still 22!
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A lot of people forget, but this team started out 13-0! And, Joe Torre was the Manager....
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