July 17, 201511 yr 1,000th topic in this thread, so I say we do a game. Each post in this thread names a Major League Baseball player. Let's see if we can get up to 1,000 with no duplicates. Can be current or past major leaguers, no minor leaguers. I will start: Julio Franco
July 17, 201511 yr I think it'd be fun to have a connection with each one, as loose as it may be: Fellow former Braves first baseman, Bob Horner
July 17, 201511 yr I think it'd be fun to have a connection with each one, as loose as it may be: Fellow former Braves first baseman, Bob HornerSkipping back a couple of places in the thread (and 119 years) to the only other player with 4 HR in a loss, Big Ed Delahanty.
July 17, 201511 yr Staying with the Braves theme... 2B Glenn Hubbard.From Glenn Hubbard (who once appeared on a baseball card holding a snake), I will make a connection to Scott Downs (who apparently had the nickname Snakeface).
July 17, 201511 yr HOFer "Bucketfoot" Al Simmons signed and gave my grandfather a HR ball he hit in the 1929 World Series.
July 17, 201511 yr RP Brad Hand - Chaska, MN The only MLB pitcher I have 1 PA from my HS career that many compared to Bill Bergen.....0-1 1 K 1 foul ball.
July 17, 201511 yr Another Minnesotan born and raised. I played Legion ball with his brother, Charlie. Jim Eisenreich.
July 17, 201511 yr got struck out by eric gunderson in a 35+ league a few years back -- memory burn in the form of a few used-to-be-mlb sliders.
July 17, 201511 yr got struck out by eric gunderson in a 35+ league a few years back -- memory burn in the form of a few used-to-be-mlb sliders. Eric Gunderson! I'll go more modern then, Curtis Granderson
July 17, 201511 yr During the offseason, Dave Goltz would bowl in the Tuesday afternoon Farmer's League with my Grandpa Carl. (Northern Aire Lanes, Fergus Falls, Minnesota.)
July 17, 201511 yr The guy I backed up in college... Former Phillies and Astros catcher Chris Coste. The guy I backed into accidently in a biker bar in Hibbard... Seth Stohs.
July 17, 201511 yr Closest I can get to my age, my hometown (but not quite on either): 2200+ MLB PAs, six teams...Mike Kingery, Atwater Minnesota.
July 17, 201511 yr I'm just going to go with my favorite player during the 1987 World Series (I was not quite 5 years old)... Randy Bush
July 17, 201511 yr Reverend Aloysius Stanislaus Travers (one of baseball's greatest stories, from the story telling era...)
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