They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.
Willie Stargell
Baseball season has arrived and that brings to my mind springtime and youthful nostalgia. And the late great Willie Stargell, who I believe remains the only man to ever hit a a ball into the parking lot of Dodger Stadium.
Although growing up in L.A. and a Dodgers fan, I couldn’t help but love the great “We Are Family” Pirates team. How could you not like a team with Willie Stargell, Dave Parker, Bill Madlock, Omar Moreno, Mike Easler, Lee Lacy, Dock Ellis, Kent Tekulve and Rennie Stennett? I mean, even their names were cool.
When I was about five, in 1980, I think, the season after they’d won the World Series, my family stayed at the same Chicago hotel as the Pirates, who were visiting for a series with the Cubs. As they boarded the team bus, I hounded them for autographs, even shook Dave Parker’s hand. There are two things I remember most about the encounter. 1) Nearly every guy on the team wore a leather jacket and carried a massive ghetto blaster, and 2) Dave Parker’s cobra belt buckle was bigger than my head.
I wonder what ever became of those autographs.
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