Bob Aspromonte was an early favorite.
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As I noted in a recent post, Colbert wasn’t traded. The Padres got him in the expansion draft.
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Well now I’m thinking of Bobby Abreu.
Man, would he have been nice hitting between Biggio and Bagwell for 6+ years.
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I was incensed as a kid about that. How could they just take him? He’s our guy!
I didn’t appreciate that the Astros ha done the same to other teams just a few years earlier.
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Where’s JR Towles??
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thanks for the clarification…I’m an old now and the memory ain’t what it used to be…gracias.
That is quite enough of that.
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Maybe my all-time favorite. I will probably get around to posting a short list sometime, but Nellie Fox (mentioned above) will be on it too. And Johnny Temple might make the cut.
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had forgotten about Temple.
they told me this would be my golden years… 
At the rodeo I reckon.
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Casey Candaele and Charlie Kerfeld would be on my list.
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I had forgotten about Grote.
My oldest son is a Dodgers fan and as a birthday gift last year I made a binder showing every player that had played (in MLB) for both teams. It had both Astro and Dodger cards for each player along with years and facts for each player. ( some players had no cards so I just had to print pictures in that teams uniform)
Grote was briefly on the 1981 Dodgers team but not on the playoff roster vs Astros.
Fun fact: Bob Aspromonte was the last BROOKLYN Dodger to play in a MLB game.
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my Dad was so mad that we kept Bateman and lost Grote…my Dad called Bateman, ‘lardass’
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One of my favorite all-time plays was Bateman failing to score from 3rd on a double.
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Speaking of John Bateman, you can follow https://twitter.com/JohnnyBateman7. It’s basically a guy (Ken Webster, artistic director of the Hyde Park Theater in Austin) roleplaying as Bateman.
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ha!!
I liked Miller, too. He just wasn’t a very good hitter, I’ve got his book, though.
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