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Thursday, March 02, 2006 |
He's Niedenfuer Homers, All Righty
Mark Saxon of the Register tells this instructive tale from the 1985 Dodgers via Mike Scioscia:
A few months after Jack Clark hit his famous home run off Tom Niedenfuer in Game 6 of the 1985 NLCS, the Dodgers had a public workout day at Dodger Stadium. It was some time in late January. Niedenfuer was throwing in a simulated game on the mound, when everybody got distracted by a big clamor in the left-field pavilion.Pedro Guerrero was standing up there punching his glove, yelling "I'm ready! I'm ready!"
Everybody fell down laughing. Niedenfuer, however, wasn't pleased.
Comments:
Haha! Pedro Guerrero, the heart and soul of the 80s Dodgers. I loved that guy... more than Derek Lowe loves Carolyn Hughes. But in a manly way of course.
I had a cheesy little Pedro Guerrero web page up for a while and I got an email from his cousin who found the site. He gave me an update on Pete's life and some contact info. This was a few years ago, before he was linked to OJ (yikes!) and some legal mess (I refuse to accept any of it as true, so I won't write about it). He was living with his wife and kids in Florida at the time. I sent him a letter telling him how he was my favorite player, and in my opinion the greatest LA Dodger of all time, carried the offense through the 80s, etc. He wrote back a couple of weeks later with a mostly unintelligible letter, but it's one of my most prized posessions-- along with my Pedro Guerrero autographed bat! My own brush with greatness.
Pedro Guerrero belongs in your top 5 (at least!), Rob.
Pedro Guerrero belongs in your top 5 (at least!), Rob.
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