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Vada Pinson -- I played CF when the manager would let me -- I taught myself to switch hit just so I could hit like him -- every year I thought he was not given his credit due because of some guys named Mickey & Willie
Vada wasn't given his credit due to Mickey, Willie and...Frank.
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Great pic, 2 of my favorite Reds.
The Human Vacuum Cleaner. Before the series against the Reds. I still appreciated him even during that series...but by that time I was 100% Reds.
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While I certainly had a favorite player before him, it was never, nor will it ever be the same as it was with this guy:
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http://www3.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/S...KUsWlwLxQl.jpgGreatest Lefty who ever pitched. Koufax retired after the 1966 season. I started following the Reds in 1967.
Sandy Koufax
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and one of my favorites, trying to keep the peace between Roseboro and Marichal
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I hardly ever post. This time I just had too.
Eric Davis. Need I say more.
Peter Edward.
If you just tried hard enough, good things would happen to you.
yeah.
Darryl Strawberry.... then when he got into drugs shortly after Griffey Jr. took the torch and held it until I was in HS.
Yup. That's the card. Thanks, woy. I think I still have it in a drawer upstairs somewhere.
I remember being mystified by the name "Chico". I was a white kid from the 'burbs and had no idea about Latin culture. Nor that Cardenas had pulled an ice pick on Jim O'Toole late in that '64 season. Cardenas got traded to the Twins for Jim Merritt and his life got a little rough after that. http://reds.enquirer.com/2002/10/27/wwwredb1lede27.html
Bench and Rose got me interested in the Reds......George Foster pushed them out of the way very quickly.
I started following the Reds at the very young age of 6, so my favorite was Tony Perez because we had the same first name. Plus he was the Big Dog and was cool as hell.