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Sparky Anderson was the oldest looking 45 year old man in the history of the world. He could have gotten a senior citizen discount anywhere without even asking for it. 

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15 hours ago, vab said:

Sparky Anderson was the oldest looking 45 year old man in the history of the world. He could have gotten a senior citizen discount anywhere without even asking for it. 

He always reminded me of the dad on Frazier. 

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On 5/2/2024 at 1:21 PM, NashLumber said:

A friend sent this to me yesterday. As if I don't already have enough baseball in my daily life, this one will get wedged in between current O's games for me. 

 

 

I see you also follow Dave Volsky's channel on YouTube. This guy has done phenomenal work restoring old baseball, football and basketball games to near HD quality.

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14 hours ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

I see you also follow Dave Volsky's channel on YouTube. This guy has done phenomenal work restoring old baseball, football and basketball games to near HD quality.

I really want to dig in to those, too. A friend of mine, who's also a fine Charlotte photographer (our redesigned website has some of his work on the home page), Daniel Coston, sent this to me. He also sent me some old radio shows as well. 

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The Midnight Express' intro music over the highlights is quite a combo of childhood nostalgia.

I first ran into this video a while back, and it was new to me then the AL championship was in Al Bumbry's glove for an instant there late in Game 3.    Fortunately the team picked him up in Game 4.

Can you imagine here if a play like that occurred with a World Series berth in reach?

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An announcer in the beginning says the pitching is like Dave McNally which fans might remember from the early 70's.  

Who says something like that when you are in 1979 which is obviously still the 70's.  Just funny way of speaking for me.

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There is tons of ex-Orioles on that Angels team.  And Disco Dan Ford is about to become an Oriole. 

Wonder if any stats guys have figured out the value of the Dan Ford Doug Decinnces trade?  I think the Orioles lost it bad but maybe not.

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1 hour ago, Gurgi said:

There is tons of ex-Orioles on that Angels team.  And Disco Dan Ford is about to become an Oriole. 

Wonder if any stats guys have figured out the value of the Dan Ford Doug Decinnces trade?  I think the Orioles lost it bad but maybe not.

I noticed that, too. 

I looked up Grich's stats for his first year as an Angel. Did he have an injury? He played very few games in '77. Interestingly, all of them were at SS. He rarely played there after that year. Must have been an arm injury. 

Edit: It was a back injury. https://www.nytimes.com/1977/07/02/archives/grich-likely-out-for-year.html

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7 hours ago, Gurgi said:

There is tons of ex-Orioles on that Angels team.  And Disco Dan Ford is about to become an Oriole. 

Wonder if any stats guys have figured out the value of the Dan Ford Doug Decinnces trade?  I think the Orioles lost it bad but maybe not.

Decinces with the Angels accumulated 18.9 bWAR while Disco Dan had 1.2 bWAR. 😲

The Orioles left side of the infield could have been Decinces and Cal for much of the 1980s. In the long run it probably doesn't change much, but maybe Decinces being on the 1982 Orioles pushes the team into the playoffs over the Brewers.

Maybe I was wrong about that what if the Orioles won back-to-back World Series in 1982 and 1983.

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