Random 1980's player

[TimeForGuinness]

Bob Walk...have about 78 of his baseball cards

[Richie Allen]

Alan Knicely

[sighyoung]

John Urrea

[Cardinalis_cardinalis]

Bob Horner

[clement]

I'll cheat a bit and invoke the ghost of John Fulgham. 10-6 with a 2.53 ERA (151 +) 1.021 WHIP, and 75:26 K:BB in 146 IP in his rookie year 1979.

4-6 in 1980 before his shoulder crapped out and that was it.

Fulgham seems to be my alter-ego. We share the same birthday and went to the same high school. Then last year when someone posted a thread about seeing which Cardinals present or past wear the same number as your current age, I looked up Fulgham, and lo and behold, it matched. Eerie...

small piece of trivia: Fulgham won 14 games in his 1.5 year career, all complete games.

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How about Gene Garber? I adopted his spin-around corkscrew pitching motion. Using it, I beaned 2 batters and hit a third on a pick-off attempt in one inning once.

His most effective pitch was a change-up, which he effectively delivered from an unusual, herky-jerky motion in which he would almost completely turn his back to the batter before delivering the ball in a side-arm, "submarine-style" manner.

[Richie Allen]

Bob Horner

It's funny how Bob Horner is now considered, especially by Cardinal fans, as such a joke. This is a guy that was once one of the hottest prospects in all of baseball. The number one overall pick in '78, rookie of the year that same year and after his first couple seasons, was probably considered a lock for the Hall of Fame some day. Although his career winded down rather quickly due to persistent injuries, this was a guy that ended up with 162 game averages of 35 HRs, 109 RBIs (on horrible teams) and a lifetime OPS+ of 127. Most similar players by age, according to Baseball Reference, Hank Aaron and Eddie Mathews. Even his one disappointing year with the Cardinals he had an OBP of .348 and an OPS+ of 102 but his power was long gone by then.

[Richie Allen]

How about Gene Garber? I adopted his spin-around corkscrew pitching motion. Using it, I beaned 2 batters and hit a third on a pick-off attempt in one inning once.

This makes me laugh. I know as kids we all experimented with funny deliveries and used them in backyard wiffleball games but I didn't know anyone actually had the nerve to try it out in a real game.

[Jmodene]

When I played ball in the backyard as a kid in 1970-71, I naturally imitated Bob Gibson, complete with follow-through.

[M1IRONMIKE]

andy rincon

[jim]

andy rincon

I loathe Andy Rincon's Strat-o-matic card, and that crummy 3 man rotation we employed when you were home on leave.