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It's Jim Traber's 61st birthday today.  Local guy from Columbia who sang the national anthem at his first game.  We thought we had lightning in a bottle when he came up-the only real coverage of the minors was The Sporting News weekly, in his first 13 games hitting 6 dingers with 17 ribbies then he came back to earth and was gone pretty quickly.  Had some good years in Japan, the attached is of him charging the mound in Japan-enjoy!!

https://www.news9.com/story/5e35d0975c62141fdee95495/jim-traber-tells-story-of-infamous-japanese-baseball-brawl

 

 

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17 hours ago, SemperFi said:

It's Jim Traber's 61st birthday today.  Local guy from Columbia who sang the national anthem at his first game.  We thought we had lightning in a bottle when he came up-the only real coverage of the minors was The Sporting News weekly, in his first 13 games hitting 6 dingers with 17 ribbies then he came back to earth and was gone pretty quickly.  Had some good years in Japan, the attached is of him charging the mound in Japan-enjoy!!

https://www.news9.com/story/5e35d0975c62141fdee95495/jim-traber-tells-story-of-infamous-japanese-baseball-brawl

 

 

Traber reminded me of Jim Fuller, another first base/outfield prospect who could hit a ton in the minors but never seemed to be able to put it together at the MLB level.  

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Yes I remember now, he was supposed to take over 1B, Boog and Brooks were running out of steam-DeCinces was coming up too.  I had forgotten how good Grich was until you jogged my memory.  The O's were so well run, so many young guys coming up.  One of my great what if's was if they had held onto Torrez and Baylor instead of trading for Reggie.  Such great pitching and defense...just could not beat the A's then ironically the big trade with them.

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