I agree with you about Luzinski in your previous post. I think the reason he is held in such high regard was The Bull was the first star to shine out of that group. Mike Schmidt had had just started to develop into the slugger he was but Luzinski was the first real slugger the team had in a while. Ryan Howard reminds me of him but Howard is a better athlete and I think a more disciplined batter in spite of all his strikeout.
I don't know if you know this but Mich Williams does (or did) host a call in radio show and had Greg Luzinski as a recent guest. A caller called in and said to Greg that he was in the ball park when he hit an inside the park home run. Luinski denied that he ever hit one. William's comment was that for that to happen the ball would have to have been hit to deep to dead center field, hitting the center fielder in the head knocking him unconscious and the two other fielders, chasing the loose ball, colliding and spontaneously exploding!
Thanks for the trivia. Cheers and Go Phillies!!!
Luzinski may never have hit an inside-the-park home run, but he was the man who hit the Liberty Bell when they hung it from the edge of the upper deck one season.
Here's one you didn't know: Poor Bill Buckner, who went to infamy when a certain grounder skipped between his shattered ankles in a certain World Series, actually has a poetic-justice stat on his resume---the last home run of his major league career was, believe it or not, an inside-the-park job.