Baseball Thread 6 - Steve Garvey's got a lot of mouths to feed

Always wanted to start one of these. Sorry if I jumped the gun a bit, but I wasn't sure if No. 5 would make it through another day.

Other great No. 6s:
Stan Musial
Al Kaline
Ryan Howard
Johnny Pesky
Tony Oliva

 

What's the usual protocol?
Seemed like the dueling Buerhle threads were taking up most of the discussion. There wasn't a lot of chatter about other games, and the day is almost over. Seemed like a good time for it.

 

There may have been more controversial homers hit than the one on July 24, 1983... but only one that caused a future Hall of Famer to go completely, bat-shit berserk.

And I think baseball could use more characters like Billy Martin.

 

How about a guy like Barry Bonds ... born on July 24, 1964.

 

Kind of hard to miss that. But I always thought it was best to start them fresh at the end of a day. That way you don't hit the 60-page mark and get cut off.
And, considering the events of Thursday, wrapping up the old thread on Page 56 seemed kind of poetic, no?
Live and learn, I guess.

 

I like that, Batman.

BTW, keep up the good work in Gotham City ...

 

Greatest tantrum ever recorded.



What was Brett's line in the dugout? "If he calls me out I'm gonna go out there and kill him," or something like that?

 

Bobby Cox and Joe Torre (as manager of the Yankees) come to mind. So dose Richie Zisk, though I'm not sure why; believe he wore 22. I think it's because of the similarity between his name and the word six.

 

Those five are the only No. 6s to have their numbers retired by an MLB team.

 

There's also the Rennie Stinnett (six hits in one game) connection.

 

Too bad this doesn't go into another sport because the most exciting player to wear #6 arguably was Julius Winfield Erving. Better known to many as Dr. J.