I Miss The Old Days
Take a minute to soak up the glory of this picture. Names like Bench, Garvey, Morgan, Foster, Candeleria, Luzinski….and Gary Lavelle going full-pimp with those shades….Don’t tell me baseball is better today. This pic says otherwise.
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Growing up, baseball felt cool. The players seemed cool, and larger than life. It was all an amazingly important part of growing up, while all other sports were just… sports. It wasn’t just a lifestyle, it was a way of life. Yeah, kinda miss those days, but still can sometimes find elements of that coolness, even if the innocence is long gone…
I don’t miss the old days when Gary Lavelle was the Giants’ lone All-Star.
Isn’t that Willie as well sitting in the Mets uniform??? Don Sutton and Ron Cry = Not Cool!!!
I think the other reason the players of that era and before seem mythical was that they were often were not seen when we were kids live or on tv usually not seeing lot of these players until an All-Star game.
Yep, that’s Mays in a Mets uni.
Good luck trying to buy your favorite team’s official jersey before the internet.
Added to the mystique…
That is great pic, Sparky and his Big Red Machine of All Stars. What year would this be from?
Sideburns were awesome
B/R says 1977 was AS season for Lavelle.
Foster btw hit 348 HRs in his career. 4 of those came as a Giant.
To be fair, he only hit 23 in his first 3 and a half years as a Red before career took off.
Frank Duffy (whom Giants acquired for Foster along with P Vern Geishert) hit 0 in 21 games as a Giant in 1971, and 26 in his 10 year ML career.
Career slash line as ML SS: .232/.279/.311 for .590 OPS
Yanks opener vs. Red Sox pushed back to Friday due to scheduled rain?
Meanwhile, weather forecast for tomorrow in Minneapolis–rain with snow mixed in so that one (Ms at Twins) out too.
I wonder when MLB will propose a 120 game season starting in May with an even more extended playoff system? Or did they already run that up the foul pole and I just forgot?
What is Mays doing there in 77? Was he a Mets coach? Winfield and Candelaria look like they hit the bong before picture day.
I looked it up, he was the Honorary Captain for the NL and Dimaggio was for the AL.
Willie also did it in 92 and 07.
He went as a Met?
Gotta love Ringo . . .
how?
Not a golfer but Wow.
let’s see if this works…testing 1 2 3
Less than 24 hours before Giants have to set Opening Day roster. LaStella held out of yesterday’s last Exhibition game vs. A’s, so unsure if he will be on it or not. Belt did get 3 more ABs.
injury-prone
Spring greetings, Flappers. Maybe not 107 wins a-coming, but heck it’s an even year. Last year proved, and underscored, that you can have an astounding and remember-forever season even without winning the World Series. Call it the De-Steinbrennerization of success.
Too many Reds&Bums for my taste but back then it was how it was dominating teams dominated the A/S game with players. Bum players giving me nausea are Cey,Garvey,Sutton,Reggie Smith top left?Coach/ManagerTommy Lasagna..
Standing next to Gary Lavelle, is the great HOF Lefty Steve Carlton a dominant pitcher for years.He was a SF Giant towards the end of his career and was ineffective by then.
Lefty was probably my favorite pitcher of that era, certainly for left-handed pitchers. I saw him at the Vet, beat the Giants 2-0. Phillies fans booed when Schmidt did not hit another homer after the one he hit (if memory serves, and it rarely does so accurately). I’ll never forget seeing Carlton in the Giants dugout (all of a sudden talkative after his notorious silence! look what desperation does to you!) trying to perfect the grip of a splitter, Roger Craig’s trademark. He had a ball in his hands; he was trying to get that special grip. It was too late. His talent was done. His outings were characterized by either striking out a batter or giving up a homer. Funny, isn’t it, that washed-up batters are often the same: strikeout or homer.
Carlton was definitely weird. He had that Zen master warm-up routine of twisting his arm in a bucket of rice. Original. But I later saw a magazine article about him after baseball: he had a ranch in remote Montana that had guns in PVC pipes underground. He was a survivalist. I actually am afraid to know what he’s into now.
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Hey guys, happy Opening Day Eve. In case you have time today and not tomorrow, the Giants Playing Pepper just posted. http://www.cardsconclave.com/2022/04/06/playing-pepper-2022-san-francisco-giants/
Other than Flav, wonder if Daniel knows or stays in touch with others; I think guys he talks to changes every year. This year…the guy on bottom gives really odd answers and doesn’t list any twitter stuff at all on top. The other guy lists someone he follows on twitter whose account doesn’t exist (maddeu). ?
Ha #19 up there on top in Cubs uni is our old buddy Manny Trillo. In that book I read about Giants in Lurie era 1976-1992, one of the laments in how poorly Giants did with FA signings, one of whom was Trillo.
Willie Montanez in Atlanta uni second row next to Concepcion, Joaquin Andujar in Stros uni top right and Garry Templeton in top row next to Trillo. Not sure who is Red talking to Mike Schmidt on bottom right.
Winfield, SD. One of my old firms rep’d him in a fraud lawsuit vs his former agent(s). In the early 80s, I guess he was with the yanks then, I sat in the LF bleachers at the E Coli one night and saw a booming HR come at us, oscillating in the lights like some sort of bizarre, soccer-ball-sized explosive device.
Front row 2nd from right on think is Tom Seaver shooting the bull with Mike Schimdt, and Joe Torre next to Seaver who like Mays was probably an honorary pick.
And the Cardinals player top row 2nd from right looks like Catcher Ted Simmons..