The Home run.....

[Rick2583]

The bat looked like a twig in his hands - he would he ferocious line drives -- So did McCovey.
I can remember opposing 1b playing McCovey very deep with one foot near the foul line.
And opposing 3b would do just about the same thing when Howard was at bat.

Remember Don Mincher from those Senators? lol
He wasn't in those guys' class - but he could wallop a few HRs here and there.

Those Nats also had a quirky relief pitcher, forgot his name- he would have a funky weird delivery- he would go through some motions and move around, rub here and there... lol (of course with no runners on base)

The only quirky pitcher I remember who would step off the mound mumble some shit into his glove then punch his glove & step back on the mound was the mad Hungarian Al Hrabosky. But he pitched for the Cardinals in the early 70s. I don't know who you mean from the Senators.

 

[blgridesagain]

I think it was Ron Kline...I checked the Senators' rosters from the mid 60's -
he would go through a whole ritual before he began his delivery. lol

As for Al Hrabosky - yeah, I remember him, a lefty. had a goatee.
I seem to remember Reggie taking him downtown when he pitched for K.C.....there were some words exchanged in the Newspaper the next day...something about Hrabosky calling Reggie lucky for hitting the HR and Reggie responding by saying Hrabosky was a crybaby ...or something like that.

By the way, there was another incident involving Reggie and a pitcher - I'm sure there must've been a couple more we didn't hear about...but anyway, the Twins had a pitcher named John Verhoeven. Reggie hit a a big HR off him and the next day in the Newspaper's coverage of the game, there was an exchange where Verhoeven was quoted as saying "If I make my pitch, he (Reggie) would've never hit that HR".....and Reggie was quoted/responding - "tell John Verhoeven next time I'll kick his butt".

The good old days (which aren't all that far in the past), when players didn't act like and talk like multi-millioinaires who belong to same Country Club/Labor Union. lol