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DON BAYLOR Share your memories of Don Baylor
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Baylor
Flitgun Frankie
April 16, 2024
It was Don Baylor’s arrival that led the Orioles to trade Frank Robinson in 1972. Seeing Baylor later in his career it’s hard to think of him as a speed demon, but he stole 50 bases one year and set a record for most consecutive stolen bases without getting caught. I don’t know if that record still stands. I was watching the game on TV when he broke the existing record and thought it was kind of a lame record not worth making a big deal about. When Baylor won the AL MVP, I thought it was a bad choice and more deserved by ex-Met Kenny Singleton.

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Flitgun Frankie
April 14, 2024
In game 7 of the 1960 World Series, Pirates manager Danny Murtaugh let sentiment get to him, which is a bad thing in baseball. With a two run lead going into the 9th inning he brought in future Met Bob Friend to finish the game. Friend was a longtime Pirate who had suffered through years of bad teams. He could do nothing with the Yankee hitters and they had bombed him in his two starts in the series. It seems Murtaugh wanted to give him a chance at a little redemption, but Friend proceeded to blow the two run lead, setting up Bill Mazeroski’s famous HR. After Friend’s fiasco, Murtaugh put in Haddix to put out the fire.

If instead Murtaugh brings in Haddix instead of Friend to start the inning, no Yankee rally, the Pirates win the game 9-7 and no Mazeroski home run. A little trivia: the Yankees won their 3 games in the series by scores of 16-3, 12-0 and 10-0. Two of those games were started by Friend. The starter of the other? Who else but Met favorite Vinegar Bend Mizell.








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