jimmypasta wrote:
Damn,I just bought an Expo's hat last week!
Staub finished his career with a .279 average, 292 homers, 1,466 RBI and 2,716 hits.
He tied a major league league with 25 pinch-hit RBI and is the only player ever to have 500 hits with four different teams.
Staub was also a six-time All-Star and helped the Mets win the 1973 World Series title.
When I first started following baseball, I remember thinking that the White Sox were pretty awful, so just how bad must the Senators be? They were managed by Ted Williams. My dad said that like it was some big deal. It didn’t mean anything to me. He was just some old guy on a baseball card I didn’t particularly want. He was on the Senators and he looked like he hadn’t taken a dump for at least a few weeks. I had no clue he was the best hitter in the history of the game. The only card I considered less valuable was the one with Del Unser on it. Although I probably only had two or three of them, looking back it seems as if every time I opened a pack of cards it had a Del Unser in it. Those were the cards my sister eventually ended up with.
My father had been bringing home a package of Topps baseball cards for me every day for the last couple years. But soon enough my sister, who is about two years younger than I am, was looking for him to bring her some too. So my dad, figuring a three year old wouldn’t know the difference, started giving her all the really horrible cards. Hello, Del Unser! That worked for a while until she caught on. Probably due to me running my big mouth and rubbing her face in her Tom Dukes and Tim Cullen cards. She must have cried to my mom who, noting the unfairness of it all, ordered the old man to straighten it out. My father simply couldn’t fathom that a four or five year old girl would be seriously interested in baseball. And I certainly didn’t want to share the cards after two seasons of having them all to myself. So my dad cooked up a plan. The Montreal Expos would be my sister's team and she would get all the Expos cards. When I objected like the greedy bastard I was, he told me not to worry, the Expos weren’t too good. Actually, they were slightly better than the Senators. But they played in the National League and the old man had his loyalties. And so my sister fell in love with Rusty Staub. He genuinely was a damn good player and I jealously lusted after his card which I was now barred from having. That is, until he got traded to the Mets the next season.
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73. Little damper for opening day .
jimmy is a National League guy.