We did this a while back (maybe on the EMB) and we got some good names out of it.
Lets do it again:
Nelson Liriano
Hector Villanueva
Jeff Pico
Don Pall
Andy Hawkins
Kirk McKaskill
Herm Winningham
Ted Power
Bo Diaz
Dickie Thon
Juan Samuel
I remember Dickie Thon got beaned in the eye by Doc Gooden when I was real young. I also remember laughing at the name "Dickie". :-D
Are there any rules to this or is it just name some players from the 80's?
Obscure guys...
Rusty Kuntz
John Wockenfuss
Steve Kiefer
Ron Stone
Cecilio Guante
Joaquin Andujar
Paul Householder
Rick Rhoden
Quote from: Die-Hard on May 18, 2006, 05:59:02 PM
I remember Dickie Thon got beaned in the eye by Doc Gooden when I was real young. I also remember laughing at the name "Dickie". :-D
I think it was Mike Torres who got him...
John Marzano
These threads are great...brings back memories of me sifting through my baseball cards when I was a kid...
Jeff Blauser
Carmelo Martinez
Luis Aguayo
Porfi Altamirano
Damon Berryhill
Charlie Liebrandt
Tom Nieto
Tommy Herr
Louie Meadows
Alex Madrid
Bob Sebra
Floyd Youmans
Ken Howell
Pat Tabler
Kevin Seitzer
Kevin Maas
Chuck Malone
Benny Distefano
Bob Horner
Ron Kittle
Pedro Guerrero
Wally Ritchie
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on May 18, 2006, 06:35:58 PM
Quote from: Die-Hard on May 18, 2006, 05:59:02 PM
I remember Dickie Thon got beaned in the eye by Doc Gooden when I was real young. I also remember laughing at the name "Dickie". :-D
I think it was Mike Torres who got him...
Im pretty sure it was Gooden. I remember watching it on one of my old school Mets VHS's.
Unless he got hit on the eye more than once :paranoid
It was Torres (http://www.johntreed.com/baseballsafety.html)
I think it was in 1984, so I was too young. The only reason I remember it was because when Thon was on the Phils I remember them talking about how great he was until he got beaned. They said he had the potential to be something special at the SS position.
The funny thing about that link was that listed right below Thon's name is our boy Uncle Charlie
80's basebal cards were the best. My favorite were 86' Topps with the wooden border.
Jack Howell
Ed Hearn
Terry Leach
George Hendrick
Mike Krukow
Jeffrey Leonard
Jose Lind
Walt Terrell
Max Venable
Mike Fitzgerald
Greg Olson
Greg Gagne
Good find Phreak. I stand corrected.
Good piece of trivia...What else is Torres famous for?
Quote from: Die-Hard on May 18, 2006, 06:46:41 PM
My favorite were 86' Topps with the wooden border.
That was 1987.
1986 had the team name in big block letters across the top.
1987
(http://www.astrosdaily.com/cards/1987T_Thon_Dickie.jpg)
1986
(http://www.astrosdaily.com/cards/1986T_Smith_Dave.jpg)
Quote from: Die-Hard on May 18, 2006, 06:51:39 PM
Good find Phreak. I stand corrected.
Good piece of trivia...What else is Torres famous for?
Ooooh..good one. I am not sure. I know he was traded for Dock Ellis though. Ellis was the guy who claimed he threw a no-no while high on LSD.
He also threw 2 CG's in the '77 WS too. Game 6 when Reggie hit his 3 HRs, Torres was the winning pitcher.
:-D @ Dock Ellis
Torres gave up the HR to Bucky bleeping Dent.
Kevin Tapani
Scott Erickson
Freddie Tolliver
Tim Crews
Steve Olin (he was the guy who died in the boating accident in ST...Crews was hurt too)
Chris Sabo (nice goggles, dooshbag)
Mike Schooler
Jim Lindeman
Jim Vatcher
Ron Jones
Randy Ready
Steve Lake
Chris James
Savin' Joe Boever
And one of my favorite Phillies ever, yes I am serious, ...
Ricky Jordan!
(http://webzoom.freewebs.com/sportsautosttm/rickyjordan.JPG)
Quote from: Die-Hard on May 18, 2006, 07:03:54 PM
:-D @ Dock Ellis
Torres gave up the HR to Bucky bleeping Dent.
No shtein?
Nice question. I have filed that one away in my memory for later use. :yay
Didnt Crews die w/ Olin?
Bobby Ojeda was the guy who was hurt but survived...then he cut part of his finger off in a gardening accident. :o
I liked Ricky Jordan too. Heres a random thought. Remember Wes Chamberlain? How come when the PA announcer used to announce him at the Vet he would pause for a good 5 seconds between first and last name? ???
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on May 18, 2006, 06:40:28 PM
These threads are great...brings back memories of me sifting through my baseball cards when I was a kid...
Damon Berryhill
I swear I had like 80 Damon Berryhill cards. I'd buy packs of 12 cards, and 3 of them would be Damon Berryhill.
Jeff Treadway
Vance Law (big-ass glasses)
Dan Quisenberry
Frank White
Danny Heap
Rafael Santana
Oddibe McDowell (Great name :-D)
Dick Schofield
Kelly Gruber
Duane Ward
Jim Deshaies
Charlie Kerfeld
bow-legged Willie farging McGee
Quote from: Die-Hard on May 18, 2006, 07:16:50 PM
Didnt Crews die w/ Olin?
Bobby Ojeda was the guy who was hurt but survived...then he cut part of his finger off in a gardening accident. :o
I liked Ricky Jordan too. Heres a random thought. Remember Wes Chamberlain? How come when the PA announcer used to announce him at the Vet he would pause for a good 5 seconds between first and last name? ???
Yeah, I think Crews did die too. Bobby O got his head cut up pretty bad.
I do remember Wes Chamberlain very well. I remember Lee Thomas bragging that he stole him from the Pirates. Not sure of the exact error on PIT's part, but they made a paperwork mistake and Wes was on waivers or something like that and Thomas scooped him up.
Louie Meadows and Wes also got mixed up by the 1989 Topps set too. I believe Meadows was pictured on the card but Wes' name was on there.
And Wes about knocked himself out after Mitch struck out Bill Pecota to win the NLCS. He slammed his head on the dugout roof running out to the field and was almost out cold.
Dan Baker is the Phils PA guy (Eagles too) he likes the dramatic pause. He used to do it with Mariano Duncan too.
Quote from: FFatPatt on May 18, 2006, 07:22:11 PM
bow-legged Willie farging McGee
Another candidate for GCobb's all ugly squad.
Willie McGee, Chris Kaman, Derrick Turnbow and Tyrone Hill are 4 of my starting 5 with maybe Alien Cassel rounding it out.
This went beyond the dramatic pause though. I thought he was boys w/ Wes and decided he didnt have to use his last name. Baker is awesome though. I'll never forget in the divisional playoff game against the Bucs when he screamed "Pittman fumbles!" before the play was over. :yay
Maybe Dan was sharing a bottle of Old Granddad with Harry K and couldnt say CHAMBERLAIN? :D
Ron Jones, who I mentioned earlier, was a victim of The Turf. He tore his knee up pretty bad and then hurt it again at Shea, I believe. He was a damn good hitter. My HS baseball coach used to talk about "this kid years ago I saw in Seguin Texas who the Phillies drafted. Could rake the ball like no one". It was Ron Jones.
Remember Dave Dravecky? Remember when his arm snapped when he was pitching? Nasty. It also happened to Tom Browning and Tony Saunders (all LHP's).
It happened to Dravecky twice. I think Saunders twice also. Nasty stuff. The shtein just popped right off.
That link you posted before about injuries reminded me of Bryce Florie. He got farged up real bad.
(http://home.foliage.com/~marks/images/a_florie_i.jpg)
Yeah, Dravecky ended up finding out he had cancer. Then, he made a comeback. Then, the cancer made a comeback.
Quote from: Die-Hard on May 18, 2006, 07:42:17 PM
It happened to Dravecky twice. I think Saunders twice also. Nasty stuff. The shtein just popped right off.
That link you posted before about injuries reminded me of Bryce Florie. He got farged up real bad.
(http://home.foliage.com/~marks/images/a_florie_i.jpg)
I remember that. There was another Red Sox pitcher who got nailed in the melon too. I think his name was Jeff Gray or something like that. He had an anuerysm from it, I think.
Norm Charlton got smoked when he was a Phillie too. I think they were playing the Pads and it was the 4th of July weekend at the Vet in 1997ish.
Razor Shines
Champ Summers
Joe Charbonneau
Oddibe McDowell
this is a good thread for me to vault my huge Bobby Bonilla card collection.
Sorry DH, didn't see you had already put McDowell.
More (sorry if there are repeats):
Earnest Riles
Kiko Garcia
Billy Beane
Keith Hughes
Joe "Ball Twelve" Cowley
Len Matuzek
Silvio Martinez
Lloyd McClendon
Carmelo Martinez
Sixto Lezcano
Glenn Wilson
Chris "I replaced Mike Schmidt" James
Randy Ready
Steve Lake
Ozzie Virgil
Alan Ashby
Quote from: Geowhizzer on May 18, 2006, 10:39:31 PM
Joe "Ball Twelve" Cowley
i remember the the phils got him, and thomas was orgasming over him because he threw a no hitter
the guy who was sent to the chisox was Gary Redus
and mr "i'm not scuffin"(http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nl/philadelphiaphils/Kgrossphl.JPG)
other memorables to me...Will Clark, Mike Greenwell, Tim Corcoran
the phils should really bring back these...they look like they are in footsie pajamas
(http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nl/philadelphiaphils/ChristensonPhi.jpg)(http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nl/philadelphiaphils/philliesrose.jpg)
I remember Greg Luzinski saying "I look like a plum" when they wore those.
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Quote from: Die-Hard on May 18, 2006, 06:40:55 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on May 18, 2006, 06:35:58 PM
Quote from: Die-Hard on May 18, 2006, 05:59:02 PM
I remember Dickie Thon got beaned in the eye by Doc Gooden when I was real young. I also remember laughing at the name \"Dickie\". :-D
I think it was Mike Torres who got him...
Im pretty sure it was Gooden. I remember watching it on one of my old school Mets VHS\'s.
Unless he got hit on the eye more than once :paranoid
Thon got hit way before Godden came up.
Quote from: stalker on May 30, 2006, 09:59:36 AM
Thon got hit way before Godden came up.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Kent Hrbek
Johnny LeMaster*
Steve Nicosia
Dane Iorg
*Trivia question. What MLB record did
The Master set?
Quote from: stalker on May 30, 2006, 09:59:36 AM
Quote from: Die-Hard on May 18, 2006, 06:40:55 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on May 18, 2006, 06:35:58 PM
Quote from: Die-Hard on May 18, 2006, 05:59:02 PM
I remember Dickie Thon got beaned in the eye by Doc Gooden when I was real young. I also remember laughing at the name \"Dickie\". :-D
I think it was Mike Torres who got him...
Im pretty sure it was Gooden. I remember watching it on one of my old school Mets VHS\'s.
Unless he got hit on the eye more than once :paranoid
Thon got hit way before Godden came up.
Actually, Thon got hit on April 8, 1984- the day after Gooden made his major league debut.
It was Mike Torrez, though.