Who are/were your parents favorite teams and players?

[commishbob]

My Dad grew up in Brooklyn practically in sight of Ebbets Field but was a Yankee fan. His favorites were Joe D and Allie Reynolds. And years later, when he took me nearly every Sunday, his guy was Hector Lopez.

As close as he was to Ebbets (he lived about 15 blocks down Flatbush Avenue) he only went twice, to see the Yankees in the '41 and '47 Series. He told me he and his friends camped out for tickets in '41.

He was also passionate about the football Giants and especially the NY Rangers The Rangers were the only team we 'shared'.

My Mom never cared about sports although she played high school hoops in Pennsylvania. Back then, it was 6 on 6, and you only played in the front or backcourt. She still had a fairly good set shot when we'd all go out and shoot around in our driveway on Long Island when I was a kid. LOL

[seanofjapan]

Brooklyn Dodgers, then Montreal Expos.

My dad was a kid in Montreal in the 50s. The Montreal Royals were big back then and most of the Dodgers famous names came up through Montreal so everyone was a Dodgers fan (in the summer at least, hockey was number 1 the rest of the year).

In 1969 he was in his mid 20s when Montreal got the Expos and he naturally became a fan, with Rusty Staub being his (and everyone’s) favorite. I was born a few years later and he took me to my first game at Olympic Stadium in 1980.

Sad thing for my dad of course is that both of his favorite teams got stabbed in the back and moved. He is not an LA Dodgers or Washington Nationals fan. He tries to follow the Blue Jays but his heart isn’t into it (neither is mine).

Only a return of MLB to Montreal will really spark his interest (mine too, I haven’t had a favorite MLB team since 2004).

[GasHouseGang]

My Dad was a Cardinal fan, having grown up just outside of St. Louis. He was drafted and went through basic training the year that the St. Louis Cardinals and the St. Louis Browns met in the World Series, 1944. He told the story that they had training on "booby traps" and what to watch out for. The drill sergeant asked if anyone was from St. Louis, and my Dad was the only one that was. Since St. Louis was the only city in the World Series that year he made him go through all the booby traps and set them off! They would shoot powder and that sort of thing to simulate explosions. He laughed about it but wasn't so happy to be selected at the time. I always heard stories about how great Stan Musial was, but also about Satchel Paige who played with the St. Louis Browns from 1951 to 1953. He would tell how "Satch" would sit in a rocking chair in the bullpen to emphasize his age and then come in and still be great.

[quinnsryche]

We are all White Sox fans in my house growing up. Nellie Fox was/is his all time favorite.

[clydepepper]

You guys were so lucky to have a father growing up...it was tougher, in some respects, without one, but better than being with the wrong one...


Mom was always a Braves fan (at least since they moved down south and our cousin, Whitlow Wyatt, was their pitching coach)


and my grandmother loved Phil Niekro (I think because he was older) - one of the last days of her life, she asked me if Niekro was pitching today.
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