Good quote about baseball
 

Someone on Twitter: the golden age of baseball is typically whenever it was that you were 12 years old.

So in my case 1979? End of the Big Red Machine and the start of Fernando-Mania? Certainly a good era but not the "Golden Age" in my mind. In general I agree with the sentiment though that the teenage years are over-idolized by many. Not just with a view on baseball but on life in general.

For me it was ages 6-10, 1968-72. It was all downhill from there and after 1985
I was pretty much done.

So true...

I think this applies to most things in life, especially the music you first listened to as a young teenager... It stays with you forever, and usual becomes the standard by which all later music is measured against.

As said in Stand By Me..... You'll never make friends in life like the ones you did when you were 13.

When Cecil Cooper was at his apex

When I was 12, George Brett .390, and I've always considered Brett an Old School baseball player who would have fit in the 1920s or 30s. If I had to pick a player who represented what is baseball, I'd pick Brett.

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I have a similar theory that the girls you had crushes on in junior high school are the same types you are crazy about the rest of your life.

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1979? We are family. 1972 was the end of an era for me too. A plane crash on 12/31/72 to be specific.

That is a good estimate. I remember being so excited about the approach to Ripken's epic 2131 game. That game was on Sept 6 1995. I would have turned 13 on Sept 4th. My main collecting focus rooting from that time became Ripken.

What was neat was that my dad's collecting focus was Tony Gwynn. So it was great that they got elected in the HOF the same year and we made our first trip to the HOF that year (though later in the year, not the day of the induction).

How true for me.. I was 12 yrs. old in 1957. More future hall of famers than any other era I believe. Mickey, Willie and the Duke. Man was that a wonderful time for a kid to enjoy the greatest game ever invented. Willie hitting them from the rightside,the Duke hitting them from the leftside and Holy Cow, Mickey hitting them from both sides. What more could a kid want.

In the 70's watching Mets games with the Schaefer Beer jingle echoing out throughout the broadcasts. Perhaps the best jingle ever, "The one beer to have when you're having more than one." Translation: if you and your friends are going to get boozy, for cripe's sake buy a case of Schaefer!!!

Ah yes. 1989. Some "kid" was tearing it up in Seattle, and I had goosebumps opening Upper Deck foils packs.

I would say that this age range works for me as well, but I certainly wouldn't call it the "golden era"...I will never forget hating the Mets with a passion in 1986 (I was 9)...I was a die-hard Astros fan and they lost to Backman, Mookie, Dykstra, HoJo and crew in the NLCS. I was sad to see the Red Sox end up losing to that Mets team as well in the WS (see prior post w/ pic of Buckner) given my hatred of that Mets team. All that chew, all that cockiness. Ugh!

Wound up moving to Boston after college and witnessed all those Championships with them in the 2000's. That was something special to me and was an amazing time to live in that town.

But my love of baseball always goes back to the late 80's and early 90s for sure...Jose Cruuuuuuz and Billy Doran...Mike Scott and Nolan Ryan....later the Killer B's and Billy Wagner....

Fall 1967- I would walk home from school & stop by my grandmother's on the way in time to watch that afternoon's World Series game - in black and white, of course.


Time was...indeed.


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It was 1969 for me. The Series games were in the afternoon, the TV was black and white, and I found out for the first time how much it sucked to be a Cubs fan. :)

Not trying tobe too "Canadian" on this topic, but it reminded me of Ken Dryden's classic book, "The Game". He had the same theory, and I always believed that was as true as a generalization could get.

I likely can name more players on more teams in more sports from 1971 than I could from today. And I'm still an avid fan of pretty much any sport.

I was 12 in 96. Ken Griffey jr was my idol and I wore 24 from 10 thru college.

That said, the 90s was hardly the golden era of baseball. I loved watching it, but now that I'm older I realize just how tainted the game truly was

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+1 - This same idea is behind a big percentage of the text in politician's speeches.

This sounds like my father in-law. It should still be 1950. And he gets angry when I don't want it to be 1950.