What player most reminds you of your childhood

[frikativ54]

Re: What player most reminds you of your childhood

Bagwell (of course)
Randy Johnson
Griffey, Jr.
Mark McGwire
Biggio
Robbie Alomar
Piazza

These are just off the top of my head...

[mariner_gamers]

Re: What player most reminds you of your childhood

Bruce Bochte.......Hello?......Anyone? Yup we had some real rough decades right after Mariners baseball began.......... Wait, things are better now right!?

[joelsabi]

Re: What player most reminds you of your childhood

i remember practicing hours upon hours on backhanded grounders (ala dave concepcion), side arm pitching (ala kent tekulve , bad idea for the arm strength) and switch hitting (just because I wanted to imitate Rod Carews batting stance even though I was a righty). do they still make whiffle balls?

[2000mvpfan]

Re: What player most reminds you of your childhood

Mattingly by far was the greatest influence of my childhood years..like Abe said,I can remember countless days trying to get his batting stance down-although from the right side!
But as far as players and teams that rattle around your head from when you were small..man,...Munson,Reggie,4chmidt,the '79 "We are Family" Pirates,'80 Phils and Royals,Astros in rainbows,and pale blue road uni's..
The late 70's-early 80's were the greatest in MLB..

Joe

[Mark17]

Re: What player most reminds you of your childhood

Dick McAuliffe.

I've lived almost my entire life in Minnesota and am a big Twins fan, but the first team I was fascinated with was the 1968 Tigers.

When I was 13 years old, in Pony League, I was basically hitless
halfway through the season. So one day I figured, why not try something
radical. I went into an exaggerated Dick McAuliffe stance (right-handed
though) where I was facing the pitcher and holding the bat with by left
elbow under my chin. Last thing I heard was the best kid on our team
saying "Oh, what's he doing NOW?" A second later I'd hit my first home
run. A couple games later I hit another.

And Mickey Lolich, I could imitate his windup (righthanded though) perfectly, the way he'd work from the stretch, bringing his hands halfway down, pausing, then letting them bounce on his gut... I really love that team. I have game-used bats of McAuliffe, Cash, Horton, Price, and am always on the lookout for more.

[metsbats]

Re: What player most reminds you of your childhood

I'll show my age. Mickey Mantle.

Whirl,

You were so fortunate to have gotten to see The Mick play in person.

[whirl]

Re: What player most reminds you of your childhood

I'll show my age. Mickey Mantle.

[BoneRubbedBat]

Re: What player most reminds you of your childhood

Nolan Ryan
Darryl Strawberry
Rickey Henderson

[nationals2k9]

Re: What player most reminds you of your childhood

Ryne Sandberg

[CampWest]

Re: What player most reminds you of your childhood

one more

[CampWest]

Re: What player most reminds you of your childhood

Great thread... Got me thinkin, which got me to lookin at pictures... These are the baseball memories ingrained in my mind...
Tenacity, passion, respect for the game, determination...

[CampWest]

Re: What player most reminds you of your childhood

Johnny Bench would be another one for me too... but not so much for his baseball playing



The Baseball Bunch was part of my every Saturday morning routine.

Pete Rose and Johnny Bench. The Big Red Machine and the Moustache Gang. The hated Dodgers of Garvey and Cey. The hated Yanks of Reggie. The 70s were great!

[Kid4hof03]

Re: What player most reminds you of your childhood

Magic Johnson, I think I was about 16 when I finally realized it was going to be impossible to play "big" point guard at 5ft. 8.

Baseball it is Reggie and Mattingly. All I wanted for Christmas when I was 8 years old was a black wooden bat so I could be like Reggie. A few years after that I worked tirelessly at trying to copy Mattingly's batting stance.

I probably need to throw Pete Rose into the mix, any kid that ever slid head first was trying to be Pete.

Abe

[metsbats]

Re: What player most reminds you of your childhood

Any member of the 1973 Mets.

[corsairs22]

Re: What player most reminds you of your childhood

The Great Roberto.