Who is your favorite childhood baseball player?

[vintagebaseballcardguy]

Darryl Strawberry

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[Bagwell-1994]

Originally Posted by vintagebaseballcardguy

Darryl Strawberry

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Why Darryl? Just curious to know what about his game made you adore him?

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[KCRfan1]

The KC Royals are my team. I have followed the team from the beginning, and as a 6 year old (at the time growing up in a small Kansas town 1970) with a name of Lou, my player was Lou Piniella. My next door neighbor, a teenager named Mike Bartlow called me sweet Lou.

[Jayjones82]

Nolan Ryan in the last few years of his awesome career. I couldn't believe that a guy that old was that good (while playing for pretty crappy teams most of his career). And that fight with Ventura was like watching a collision between baseball generations and the older generation kicked butt. I still laugh when I see a pic of that moment, with Ryan holding Ventura in a headlock.

[Bagwell-1994]

Originally Posted by Jayjones82

Nolan Ryan in the last few years of his awesome career. I couldn't believe that a guy that old was that good (while playing for pretty crappy teams most of his career). And that fight with Ventura was like watching a collision between baseball generations and the older generation kicked butt. I still laugh when I see a pic of that moment, with Ryan holding Ventura in a headlock.

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[Jim65]

I had 2:

Tom Seaver and Johnny Briggs, who was from my hometown of Paterson, NJ

[58pinson]

The handle should pretty much give it away. The story? If I can brush the cobwebs off an old book in the back of my memory it was 1962 (could have been '63 I guess) and at 13 years old I'd gotten the first ok (with a few be carefuls) from my parents to venture from New Jersey into New York City without an adult. The Cincinnati Redlegs were in to play the Mets at the old Polo Grounds for a day game. As a Yankee hater who's greatest baseball thrill so far had been Mazeroski's World Series home run I was ecstatic that National League baseball had returned to New York. My friend (a Yankee fan) and I got there super early. Our tickets were on the Cincy side and the ushers didn't object to us walking down to the unoccupied field seats and getting a close up view of the Red players warming up and such. Out of the clear blue Vada Pinson comes strolling over to us and chats us up for what was probably a minute or two - it seemed like a half an hour to us. It was a larger than life experience and made an instant lifelong fan out of me. Even many years later I was saddened when he passed at such a young age. He and Frank Robby are chucking the ball around again somewhere.