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George Brett

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Yeah. That's obscure.

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I think some people don't understand what an "obscure" player is.

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Btw - I think the rule should be it can't come from your home team. I could rattle about 4/5ths of the Royals that played in the 80s.

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Ok.

Benny Ayala

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Charlie Hough

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Paul Householder.
Ted Power.
Tom Hume.


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Buddy Biancalana

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That's a good one.
Anyone remember David Letterman having fun with him?
Different channels and newspapers in 1985 were doing the countdown to when Pete Rose would break the Cobb hits record.
"Only 27 hits to go" etc etc.

Letterman chose Biancalana for the calendar on his show, "Only 4,178 hits to go before he has Ty Cobb's record!"
Letterman eventually had Biancalana on as a guest and was asking him stuff about the everyday pressure of going after the record, the media hoopla surrounding him and the record, etc.

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wallace johnson

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Bobby Grich

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not from my home team someone said?

okay, Lenn Sakata (last BAL SS before Cal Ripken's streak)

Dickie Thon
Paul Assenmacher

I don't think those are very obscure actually but I'm drawing a blank right now.

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Larry "Satin" Sheets

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Razor Shines

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Tommy Herr

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tim leary

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Sammy Khalifa

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Tim Stoddard

Only guy to win a World Series ring and an NCAA final four championship in basketball.

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Crash Davis

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Storm Davis

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Chili Davis

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Chris Gwynn, the fatter Gwynn!

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Paul Zuvella
Tom Veryzer

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Pat Tabler. Lifetime .220 hitter, but like .450 with the bases loaded.

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Razor Shines

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The pride of the Indianapolis Indians!!

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Biff Pocoroba

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Haha, I'd never heard of this guy, I thought you just made up a completely random name. Good call! I think when I get older and have kids, my kids will think 'Boof Bonser' was a made-up name too.

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Razor Shines

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When I was a kid he was the most popular player on the AAA team in Indianapolis. They were affiliated with the Expos at the time and had completely stacked teams that won the title every year.

Over the course of a few seasons they had Larry Walker, Marquis Grissom, Moises Alou, Delino DeShields, and Randy Johnson.

Shines was there for years and was always way more popular than the up and coming guys that were zipping past him to the show.

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John Montefusco
Atlee Hammaker
Bob Shirley

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Butch Davis

Kal Daniels

Sam Horn

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John Cerutti

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How has Eric Plunk now come up yet?

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So I am looking at Sam Horn's stats, and I can't seem to look away.

If any of you are baseball stat geeks like me, check out his stats and see how many odd/unusual things you can find.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hornsa01.shtml

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I am now going crazy!

Kevin Maas
Steve Balboni
Chuck Crimm

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Brian Clutterbuck

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Champ Summers

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Juan Nieves
Len Barker
Matt Young
Jerry Reed

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Don August
Jerry Hairston
Gene Nelson

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mark lemke

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Mickey Tettleton
Brett Butler
Bobby Witt
Mike Witt
Jim Kaat (though not that obscure b/c of broadcasting career)

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Oh yeah

Doyle Alexander (had a few baseball cards of him, YAY TOPPS)

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Tereg - none of those are obscure.

Onix Concepcion

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Mickey Tettleton
Brett Butler

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WHAT? Neither of these guys were obscure.
Butler had 2,375 hits and stole more than 500 bases.

Tettleton had 250 homers, played several different positions and was in the top 5 in walks six of the seasons he played, that's the top 5 in the league in walks! He had one of the greatest eyes in the game.

They BOTH were all-stars too.

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Mike Kingery
Mickey Brantley
Rick Cerone

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So I am looking at Sam Horn's stats, and I can't seem to look away.

If any of you are baseball stat geeks like me, check out his stats and see how many odd/unusual things you can find.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hornsa01.shtml

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Sam Horn hit a foul popupthat landed 2 rows above me at a Royals game. While everyone was floundering around, I just watched the row above me for the ball to come squirting down. Sure enough it appeared. I managed to get my left hand over it a millisecond before two other hands converged on top of mine. I had to yank pretty hard to get it out of there. It sill has a black smudge from that. I thought the dude next to me was going to tackle me for it.

All that over a silly regular season foul popup. I can't imagine the ugliness over a record breaker. Also the biggest regret I have is not giving the ball to this little kid who came up to look at it. It just sits in a box somewhere in my house. Big whoop.

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Jim Kaat (though not that obscure b/c of broadcasting career)

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That and the fact that he had a great career.

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John Cangelosi

Cecilo Guante

Orestes Destrade (career started in the 80s)

also i think Horn was Yankees' property for one year but never got a chance in the bigs - I remember as a kid wondering why the hell they never gave him a shot