Favorite player growing up?
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I'm a Mets fan but Kirby Puckett was my favorite player. Porbably one of the most clutch hitters I've ever seen and great fielder as well.
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@Bob_Loblaw1984 said in Favorite player growing up?:
I saw this being discussed in another thread a thought it deserved its own.
I’m a lifelong Cubs fan and loved Mark Grace and Greg Maddux. I followed the Braves closely as well after Maddux left and really enjoyed watching Chipper too. I was lucky to have WGN and TBS available to watch these guys all the time.
FYI, I’m 36.
"The Kid" Ken Griffey Jr!!!
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Rod Carew
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Mark Grace, Dale Murphy and Glenn Hubbard
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Old lifelong Cardinals fan here so some of the ones that pop into mind from before i was 20
Lou Brock
Ted Simmons
Willie Mcgee
Ozzie Smith
Tommy HerrMcGuire, Pujols, Yadi all came after I was an adult.
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Sammy Sosa
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Babe Ruth, loved watching him play.
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@joshjays44 said in Favorite player growing up?:
Caven Biggio, I'm still growing up
I thought you said you were 41...
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My favorite player growing up was probably Pedro Martinez
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Don Mattingly was always my favorite. We didn't have cable when I was a kid so I used to get up every morning and check the box scores in the paper to see how he did the night before
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Kenny Loften, Omar vizquel, Charles Nagy
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@olivegarden2 said in Favorite player growing up?:
@joshjays44 said in Favorite player growing up?:
Caven Biggio, I'm still growing up
I thought you said you were 41...
I'm a young 41.
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Manny Ramirez... he's from my neighborhood.
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Still growing up. Albert Almora Jr. I was lucky enough to go to a game where he got the winning home run, and had 3 hits with a sac fly. (Rare)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEO36Ea-INY
In case you’re interested. We also lost Wilson Contreras’s hammy that day. -
@raesONE said in Favorite player growing up?:
Many people will disagree and some may give me an earful, but to me it's Barry Bonds. The man is simply the best hitter of all time in my opinion, despite all that cream and clear. I loved watching that man destroy balls.
I don't like the guy, but Bonds had one of the best eyes & discipline the game has ever had.
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Lenny Dykstra. David Cone (pre-yankee years)..
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@Jeviduty said in Favorite player growing up?:
Manny Ramirez... he's from my neighborhood.
Love Manny.
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Will always forever be Ken Griffey Jr....I was born in 1985 an started playing baseball soon as I could walk....by 1989-90 Griffey was in the bigs and soon as I seen that first rookie card me an my dad got in a pack of cards I knew as a child he was cool an going to be my favorite player ever not even knowing that he would actually be one of the best players/hitters the game has ever seen....Im a red Sox fan but was also a huge mariners fan because of the kid.i really miss my Mariner teams of the 90's
