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Bobby Murcer was my hero as a young boy. Adored him and still do. My mother sewed me a custom Murcer Yankees #2 pinstripe uni to wear when I was 4 years old. (God Bless her!)
The victim of unreal expectations, he still had an awesome career. A .277 hitter with over 250 HRs and over 1,000 RBIs. 5 time All-Star and a heck of a broadcaster and an even better human being. My mother-in-law recently passed from a brain tumor - the same type that claimed Murcer's life. I never appreciated how awful he had it near the end until I saw a loved one go through it. 
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04-06-2019, 12:00 PM
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Growing up it was always watching the "Murph" as Americas team on TBS
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04-06-2019, 07:01 PM
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Ken Henderson then Jim Spencer. Both as White Sox. Apparently I didn't expect much from my childhood heroes!
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04-07-2019, 10:10 AM
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Player I watched--darryl strawberry
Player I read about (there was no youtube)-- Ted williams
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05-30-2019, 11:59 AM
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05-30-2019, 05:24 PM
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Brooks Robinson
Brooks Robinson was my childhood hero and still my favorite all time player. I loved the O’s players and teams, but Brooksie stood out. I’m a Orioles fan for life; I try to take the good with the bad and at times I have to live in the past...
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05-31-2019, 02:58 AM
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As a long-suffering Reds Fan, same here... LOTS of living in the past.
 And Brooksie absolutely stifled us in the '70 World Series. That series was perhaps my biggest disappointment as a young kid, as I really expected the Reds to win. But play after play, it cemented the fact that Brooks Robinson was one of the greatest 3rd Basemen ever.
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05-31-2019, 04:34 PM
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I guess the O’s knew going into the ‘70 WS that there would be plenty of action on the SS/3rd base side with all the pull hitters on the Reds. What most people don’t consider is that Brooks was 33 years old at the time and been making plays like this, year after year, over the past 15 years or so. As an O’s fan we knew, we got to see first hand, day in and day out, but the rest of the baseball world got to see just a glimpse of how great Brooksie really was at third. Of course in my mind, and likely each and every old school B’more fan, that he IS the greatest 3rd basemen ever...
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06-04-2019, 02:45 PM
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Last edited by Bocabirdman; 06-04-2019 at 02:46 PM.
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