Who Was Your Favorite Player When You Were 10 yrs old?

[foster15]

1968 I was 10 and that was the first season I followed the Reds. In fact our 4th grade class went to a game at Crosley and we got beat by the Cardinals in a shutout 1-0 I believe. Only one Red hit the ball hard every time up and he became my favorite for the season. AJ. Alex Johnson.

[phlbilly]

Eddie Milner. I sent him two baseball cards in the mail. He signed both of them and sent them back to me.

[cincinnati chili]

Can't believe I'm the first one to say Mario Soto. And he would remain my favorite for a while on some BAAAAAAAAD teams.

[Mutaman]

Vada Pinson at 10 but Art Shamsky took over at 13 when my dad and I witnessed his 3 homer game against the Pirates. 2 homers were in extras off Billy O'Dell and Elroy Face. He then hit another 2 days later for 4 hrs in 4 abs. I was crushed when he was traded to the Mets for Bob freakun Johnson the next year. I was almost a Mets fan but my granma and my dad talked me out of that insanity by taking me to more games at Crosley. I got over it but I was convinced Art was gonna be a huge star.

I remember that game. As I recall the Reds lost because The Great Roberto had something like 10 hits.

[chuck6660]

It's a bit of a toss up, I have always been a Pete Rose fan, even tried to be a switch hitter in Little League...but in 1970 Johnny Bench was the man, .293 BA, 45 HR, 148 RBI and MVP.

[Boston Red]

Mario Soto, but he was already in decline by then. Gary Redus on the offensive side. Guy could dominate a game with his legs.

[Kingspoint]

Bob Gibson

When I was 11, it was Johnny Bench.

[Kingspoint]

When I was 12 in my final year of Little League, I had a red Pete Rose glove. It's long gone, but I do still have a couple of 33" Pete Rose Louisville Slugger bats I bought when I was about age 17. I used both of them in baseball games until one of them got cracked; at that point I "retired" them both.

I had one of those bats, but I got it about 12.

[Cherokee]

Dave Concepcion for sure

[scotly50]

Micky Mantle

[RFS62]

Johnny Edwards and Frank Robinson

[HokieRed]

Frank Robinson, with Vada Pinson second

[Bruce Berenyi]

I met Shamsky recently and discussed the 4 homers in four at bats after the three homer game the next day was postpononed then he hit another homer, then they went to LA for a road trip and he still didnt start for Dave Bristol, he pinch hit and got a hit Oneof the homers was off Al McBean

[Cooper]

Plummer.

[Brisco]

Turned 10 in 1976... so the golden era... that summer Pete rose’s nephew married my second cousin, so I figured he was family!
If not for that Morgan would have been my favorite.