BOO: If read just one paean to a mediocre, mostly disliked, and largely forgotten baseball player,
make sure it's this one to Johnny "Disaster" LeMaster whose only moment of greatness was that his first big league at bat was an inside-the-park home run.
Is the Philadelphia equivalent of Johnnie LeMaster/Sam Horn actually Steve Jeltz, Rick Schu, Von Hayes, or Jeff Stone?
ReplyDeleteOh man, I hadn't thought of Johnny LeMaster for years. A mediocre major leaguer; that still puts him in the top 600 ball players in the world. Quite possibly sunk by the announcer (Lindsey Nelson, who wore jackets Jack Ramsey wouldn't be caught dead in), who insisted on tagging every routine grounder to the short stop with "Johnny LeMaster, quite possibly the (pause) the greatest shortstop in baseball".
ReplyDeleteOf course the Giant's were so bad at the time that bleacher seats were $2, and a beer $3.
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Gotta be Stone, who had flashes of greatness but was such a goofball he couldn't put it together. Jeltz was never good enough to inspire and I can think of no moment of greatness. Schu hung around but never did anything to distinguish himself beyond being The Guy Who Moved Schmidt Briefly to First, and Hayes was actually a decent player.
ReplyDeleteAnd here's another paean to a player who's mostly disliked and with any luck will be mostly forgotten.
ReplyDeleteHe's not mostly disliked among SF fans or among people who care only about the playing of baseball and not about the how people came to play baseball the way they play baseball, and luck has absolutely nothing to do with whether he will be forgotten (which, of course, he will not -- at least in part because people who hate him will never stop writing about him).
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