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Old 06-21-2021, 02:30 PM
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I am happy to report the tradition is alive and well. A couple of current good ones:

Yermin Mercedes = The Yerminator
Jeff McNeil - Flying Squirrel
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"Hondo" - Frank Howard (My personal favorite and I am biased, he is my childhood baseball hero.).
"Pops" - Willie Stargell

And the second "The Kid" - Gary Carter
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"Hondo" - Frank Howard (My personal favorite and I am biased, he is my childhood baseball hero.).
"Pops" - Willie Stargell

And the first 'The Kid" - Gary Carter
Wut? Ted Williams was "The Kid," no? It's the title of one of his biographies.
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Wut? Ted Williams was "The Kid," no? It's the title of one of his biographies.
I stand corrected, the second "The Kid" I just got to hear about Ted, I got to see Gary. (fixed)

I alway knew Ted as The Splendid Splinter. Maybe that is why it did not click.

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Goose Gossage
Sudden Sam McDowell
Catfish Hunter
Mudcat Grant
Mr. October
Killer
Mad Dog (Greg Maddux)
The Rocket
The Ryan Express
The Big Unit
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The Goose lives here in Colorado Springs, I have run into him a couple of times and went to a roast for him years ago. Got a few of his cards autographed.

It is alway cool to see him away from baseball and "just a regular guy."
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The Goose lives here in Colorado Springs, I have run into him a couple of times and went to a roast for him years ago. Got a few of his cards autographed.

It is alway cool to see him away from baseball and "just a regular guy."
One of the great pitcher batter confrontations in recent history was Gossage getting Yaz to pop up with two on and two out in the bottom of the ninth in the Bucky Dent game.
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One of the great pitcher batter confrontations in recent history was Gossage getting Yaz to pop up with two on and two out in the bottom of the ninth in the Bucky Dent game.
My favorite one of Goose's is when he faced Kirk Gibson in the 1984 World Series, complete with Sparky Anderson audio. I mean, seriously, just look how much Sparky is enjoying the moment BEFORE the final pitch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmukTdo-WuY
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The Human Rain Delay is my favorite one in modern times.
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In football, Jim Crowley was one of the Four Horsemen at Notre Dame; he would later coach the Seven Blocks of Granite at Fordham. One of Crowley's students, Steve Sorota, later became the football coach at Phillips Andover, where the center on his undefeated 1970 team was Bill Belichick. Roughly contemporaneous with the Seven Blocks of Granite, the Supreme Court had two factions, the Four Horsemen and the Three Musketeers, with two swing justices who usually decided cases.
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