“Harmon had the bad luck of not being in a big market TV area.”
Similar to the Braves’ third baseman Eddie Mathews who slugged 512 homers in the obscurity of Milwaukee.
I have lived in Alabama almost all of my life. About 10 or 12 years ago, I was in Atlanta for a week on business. Some of my co-workers and I went to a Braves game.
I sat next to a guy who was keeping a book on the game. He proceeded to tell me that he went to MLB games all over the country, and he kept the book on every game he went to. He asked me if I went to a lot of Braves games.
I replied, “Let me put it this way . . . The last time I saw the Braves play, Eddie Matthews was playing 3rd base.”
But I love sports and baseball, even played one year junior college baseball. I just rarely go to games. Killebrew was one of my childhood favorites. Rest in peace, big guy.