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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: James Feagin
Might seem like an obvious question, but collecting and being a fan of the game aren't automatically inclusive. How many of y'all actually follow present-day baseball? If you don't do you have an interest, and where does that interest end? |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Douglas
I'm a big baseball fan. Growing up in Anaheim, I'm a HUGE Angels fan, though I follow the Dodgers well enough (Mostly so I can annoy Trevor). |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Bill Stone
Casual follower but the truth is on October 13,1960 when Pittsburgh beat the Yankees on Bill Mazeroski's 9th inning home run I never thought baseball could ever get any better than that and in my humble opinion there has never been a greater day in the game of baseball since. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Bill Todd
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Gilbert Maines
I am only interested in an overview of the major events relating to modern baseball. Im still learning much of what is baseball history. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Josh Adams
I follow my beloved Chicago White Sox, and havebeen doing so for about 20 years. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: James Feagin
I ask the question because there is so much discussion of cards on here, it's interesting to see if there are actually baseball fans behind the cards. For the record, I am a baseball fan first, collector second. My collecting results from my love of the game. However, I am an Orioles fan who has gone underground because of the current ownership. Nothing is more wonderful than watching minor league baseball on a nice summer/spring night. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Kevin Cummings
Bill: |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: James Feagin
Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for Wal-Mart against the The Sisters of the Poor |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Trevor Hocking
My family has been a baseball family for five generations now, so my Grandfather told me. My Grandfather grew up in Brooklyn and lived and died with the Dodgers. He then moved to California one year after they did. My Father was a part time fan of baseball and the Dodgers. Then there came me. I grew up watching the Dodgers in the early 80's with my Grandfather and I was hooked. They where the team for me. Now I have a six year old son Hunter and he loves baseball. I think he likes the Dodgers only because I make him. He is on the Blue Jays now so he wants to collect and watch them right now. But yes baseball is a part of my family and life and I will always be a fan. A DODGER fan!!!! GO BLUE!!!! |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Ben
Dejected Expos fan here. I used to get to as many games as possible when I lived in Montreal. So many great memories! Vlade's 31 game hit streak. Heckling Pat Burrell so bad that he turned around and gave us a serious stink eye and wave off. Sneaking in 12-packs and hiding out in the nosebleeds during blowouts. Getting into fistfights with the mascot Youpee. Hitting on the VIP stewardesses with very little success. Playing wiffle-ball with Bill "Spaceman" Lee. Naked french guy streaking across the outfield. I could keep going but I know where to stop. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Dustan Hedlin
I love to watch baseball, and I'm actually going out west for a week and a half at the end of July to see all 5 parks in California and the one in AZ. After my trip, I'll have been to 21 different parks. 20 different teams, and new Busch Stadium. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Paul Stratton
I'm a long suffering Tigers fan. I was there in 84 when Gibby took Gossage yard and it is still the most electric moment I've ever experienced in person. There hasn't been much to cheer about since the late 80's so it's pretty exciting to watch them play so well this year. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Jim Novotny
I am a big fan of baseball. I follow the Athletics and the Cubs. Most of the time tough I am following my kids to their games. I love the sport at whatever level it is played. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Al C.risafulli
I love baseball. Modern baseball, baseball history, wiffle ball, whatever - I can't get enough of it. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Cobby33
Giants season ticket holder and in last place in my fantasy league! |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Cat
Love the game. I don't see a lot of MLB games live, but do like to go the the local Single A games. I also have the MLB TV package and see parts of 700 or 800 games on TV per year. I love the art of the game and watching players who understand the importance of the little things...moving runners up, throwing to the right base, catchers blocking balls, etc. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: jP
baseball has always been a big part of my life and my family too. started playing and learning the sport when i was 5 and played all the way up to varsity baseball team in high school ( california 1993 pacific league champs, Hoover High)im 30 now and will be putting my son on a t-ball team very soon. Dodgers are my team for as long as i can remember. although i dont keep up with current events in baseball i still catch the highlights and go to a Dodger game here and there (went last saturday and got a free dodger shirt) been collecting cards since jr. high school and started collecting heavily recenlty. LONG LIVE BASEBALL Americas favorite past time! |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: ockday
I actually remember Mazeroski's HR though I was a little kid...bummer all the same. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: dd
Chalk me up as a baseball fan. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Lee Behrens
I am a partial season ticket holder for the Twins, new ball park in 2010!!!!!!! I am in a fantasy baseball league, attend local college wood bat league games, will be going on my 4th baseball trip this summer (Great Fun!!!!!) and keep up daily with the stats. Winters get boring, good thing we have this forum to take care of some of the baseball fix. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: leon
I am addicted to the cards and couldn't give a rat's ass about major league baseball today. If I see a game on tv I might watch an inning. I think they are big, overpaid, babies. If there was NO major league baseball it would make no difference to me. However, with that said I really enjoy going to the local minor league games in Frisco, Tx. They are really enjoyable, don't cost a ton of money, and the guys look like they are still having fun. I think it's the major league players that I despise so much. The last strike really turned me off too. I do still love the game and hope to get into some mens softball soon....but have also just volunteered most of what free time I have to my little girls softball league. Did I mention I can't stand major league baseball? (that being said I was appreciative of a free ticket that Texas Ted gave me and Rich K, last year)....THE company I kept made that game enjoyable....best regards...your addicted collector moderator dude... |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Steve M.
for the History of the game. Present day baseball holds little interest for me though I will go to one Cubs game this year on my birthday/father's day and then only because my son bought the ticket. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Peter Thomas
I have managed to get to at least 1 red sox game every year since 1946. When I lived in Boston walking distace to Fenway from 1960 to 1980 I got to about 50 games a year. Harder now, but with Tampa and Miami not too bad. I also rember Mazeroski's HR and as a sox fan was happy to hear it. Best memory of 60 though was seeing Williams last HR at Fenway, landed about 50 feet from me. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Bob
Our 5th grade teacher let us watch the Yanks-Pirates WS game 7 on tv in good old black and white so I got to see Maz' pop fly homer live. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: peter ullman
i'm a huge baseball fan...always have been...always will be...big yankees fan to be specific. i grew up in nj going to yankees games with my dad, moved to baltimore for dental school and saw cal break LG's streak and am now in mn where i root for the twinkies...when the yanks are not in town! |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Sean
I gotta love the Twins, don't have a clue about any other team or players. I watch them once a week, and try to get to a few games each year (hot bogs and 3.2 beers, nothing better). I'm really excited for our new stadium! |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Andrew Parks
They're still playing baseball in the big leagues? Who knew? |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: ScottIngold
So i'm not the only one. Andrew and Leon sound like me. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Joe Jones
I follow baseball everyday (Go Tigers!). Sure the players have changed over the years but I still admire the game. I would rather watch baseball than any other sport. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Jimi
I love the game and I stay up late to watch my Indians play! Still waiting for another title! |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: leon
When you post, where it says "Your Email (optional)"....put your email addy in there...and you are all set. And I agree...what major league baseball ? Although, I am not knocking anyone that loves it. It's still a great game that I enjoy playing.... |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Sean Coe
I follow the Orioles although not with the enthusiasm I had when I was a kid. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Chris Counts
While I am convinced baseball will never be as great as it was in the 1930s and early 1940s (sorry, t-card collectors, but this was baseball true golden age!), it's still the next best thing. I loved the recent international baseball "classic," and I still read the box scores every day (since early 1970, by the way!). |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Matthew
I have had this discussion before & it still is surprising to me to see how many don't follow the game. I got into collecting because of a love of baseball, but I suppose everyone is different. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Bruce Babcock
I was a huge Milwaukee Braves fan because my mom grew up in Wisconsin and my grandparents lived there. My cousins lived in Milwaukee. Eddie Mathews was my favorite player because he grew up in Santa Barbara, where I grew up as well. Aaron and Spahn were big favorites also. I got Mathews' autograph at Dodger Stadium in 1964. When the Braves left Milwaukee . . . |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Bill K
Beyond following the Twins boxscore every week or so I couldn't care less about today's baseball. I love the vintange/deadball era. When I was a kid I used to listen to Herb Carneil(sp.) every night in the summer call a game while lying in bed. What a voice he had! I even had my foot run over by Tom Brunanski's car during the 87' World Series parade. I lost interest in 94' and it's never come back. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Richard
Admitting this may get me banned from the board, but I'm a Blue Jays fan through-and-through |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: dstudeba
I am like Bill K. Follow the Red Sox through the paper, but if I don't read anything about baseball for a week or so I don't feel a loss. I go to the games to get together with friends and drink beer on a summer evening. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: john/z28jd
I watch as many games as possible and between minors and majors im going to about 20 games this year inclduing the all-star game. I would say i watch at least parts of 500 games per year and i have xmradio and listen to a game whenever its on and whoever is playing altho if the Yankees are the only team on and its their home announcers i wont listen,ill just follow the score. Im obsessed with baseball in general and will read or talk about anything from the beginning till now altho 19th century major leagues is my favorite subject |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Max Weder
I think I stopped following modern baseball in 1994, when the Expos were leading the division at a .641 clip and the strike killed the season. I still follow the Mariners, the Red Sox and know the stars, but unlike when I was 21, I can no longer recite the entire 40 man rosters of all the teams, and I am now continually surprised when a player retires at 35, and I've never heard of him |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Mike
I check the standings each morning. I am not as much a diehard as i used to be. When my two children played, one in Babe Ruth, and the other a college all conference shortstop, it made the pros' seem not as interesting anymore. I still love the game. But I enjoyed my children much more. Anyway...it is great to know that Minnesota will finally get a professional stadium. I will be increasing my annual visits to watch them, going from none, to probably 15 or so. I can't wait. WOW....sunshine, grass, and clouds and birds....too bad Kirby won't be here to see it. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Kevin Cummings
John: |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Sean
Easy enough. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: John S
I love the game but am more into the history than following current players. I would rather and do attend more minor league games than major league contests. I lived in Charleston, SC for a few years and really enjoyed attending the single A Riverdogs games. $4 to get in a watch young kids play good hard baseball. Who knows how many of them were on HGH or other performance enhancers; that's fodder for another debate. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Joe_G.
Die-hard Detroit fan for 22 years and counting (84 Tigers - last Championship). Not an easy proposition given the lean years (decades) |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Steve Dawson
I still follow the game every day, but not nearly to the extent I did in my younger days. I'm a life-long (I was 6 when they joined the NL) San Diego Padres fan (to the two Tiger fans who posted earlier, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!.....I still hate Kirk Gibson!!!!!!!). The game just isn't the same these days, with the overpaid prima-donna players who refuse to sign autographs for anyone including kids, and the steroid controversy. Having said all that, I still absolutely love going to games. I'm currently living in San Antonio TX and try to get to Houston a few times each season to see the Astros, especially when the Padres play there. |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)
Steve, |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: jay behrens
I don't follow the game as closely as used to. Even though I grew up a Twins fan, and still am, I prefer the NL game over the AL game. When I lived in CA I had season tix to the A's a few years and regularly attended Giants games at Candlestick because they let military personel in free. I spent one year working the sound board for the local minor league team and had blast doing. My job prevents me from still do it |
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How Many on the Board Actually Follow Baseball?
Posted By: john/z28jd
Dear Kevin, I hate John Sterling and Susan Waldman only,i watch on tv.Waldmans only job is to follow the Yankees and she makes so many mistakes and Sterling kisses butt constantly and his homer(not home runs) calls are too annoying. The tv announcers aside from Michael Kay are knowledgeable and call what they see not what they see thru pinstriped glasses,but Kay isnt that bad that id turn him off.Only Tim McCarver gets shut off on tv |
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