[BluesDuke]

Maybe we're learning. Last fall, when Atlanta's Brooks Conrad committed three errors in a National League Division Series game against the San Francisco Giants, the Giants were worried about the guy. "How is Conrad?" asked their senior baseball operations advisor. "I feel so bad for him over there." And I didn't notice they're ready to burn him in effigy in Atlanta any time soon . . .

By the way, when Tracy Stallard was traded to the Mets in 1963 (for infielder Felix [Wrong Way] Mantilla), he had no way to know that, come 1964, one of his Met teammates would be Jack Fisher---the pitcher who'd surrendered Roger Maris's 60th bomb in 1961 . . .

[kenavi]

Baseball is a throw of the dice.

[Luke21]

Never will forget Lonnie Smith getting deked at second and holding at third in the 1991 WS. He would have scored the winning run on Terry Pendleton’s double. Atlanta lost game seven one to nothing in ten innings.

The next year Smith hit a grand slam in the 1992 series. Everyone yawned and Atlanta lost again. Jeff Reardon, the guy who made the news when he went a little crazy a while back, was the goat in that one.

As for Stallard, he was nice enough to sign a 1961 rookie card for me, the exact same one shown in this thread. I made it a point not to mention that home run in the letter I sent him.