Originally Posted by siberian khatru:
I saw Donnie Moore in spring training with the Royals in Baseball City, FL in 1989, he was a non-roster invitee IIRC. Moore was warming up in the bullpen and pitching coach Frank Funk was walking down the first base line toward us and I asked him "Is that Donnie Moore down there?" And he just nodded.
A few months later, Donnie killed himself.
Yea, Donnie Moore is a study in tragedy. That game wrecked his life.
For fun, I had to go find the highlights to that game. Totally forgot that Dave Henderson, in the bottom half of the 8th, had a fly ball n his glove, then he hit the fence, dislodging the ball, allowing it to be a 2 run HR for Bobby Grich.
And just before Hondo’s HR, Don Baylor hit a 2 run shot to get them within 1.
That was a crazy, crazy game.
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Originally Posted by Dartgod:
My mom gave me a photo album a few years ago from the 1985 WS parade. It's crazy how close the fans were able to get to the cars and players.
Steve Balboni, George Brett, Dan Quisenberry, Lonnie Smith
Dart, those are some all time photos. All that confetti started a parade car on fire during the parade. What a great day that was.
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Also, at the 16:22 mark, Doyle Alexander gave up the run scoring 2b to Buddy Biancalana and Alexander was pissed. He felt he struck out Sundberg on a 3-2 pitch that HP umpire Darryl Cousins called a ball resulting in a walk.
Said to Cousins,
"Jesus Christ, "****ing blind idiot".
And Bob Costas said as Biancalana made contact and the ball was headed to the gap:
"Buddy Biancalana hits into right center and
Hello Buddy Biancalana"!!!
Great days.
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I'm going to have to find that clip because Doyle Alexander was mad AF. he barked all the way to the dugout.
Costas and Tony Kubek were on the call for NBC.
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