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Not So Well Known Sports Heroes

RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
edited May 2011 in Strut Central
Rep your not so well know sports idols in any sport......as a kid mine were Cazzie Russell and Dick Barnett

Dick was a great player and a better man......hope you enjoy.



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  • downtownrobbrowndowntownrobbrown 446 Posts
    Rob Brown



    Had Alyssa Milano when she was 17.
  • Mr_Lee_PHDMr_Lee_PHD 2,042 Posts

  • dammsdamms 704 Posts
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norman
  • JATXJATX 258 Posts
    I used to love to watch Charlie Hough pitch when I was a kid. I got his autograph at a game once and, upon meeting him close up,I liked him more because he seemed like a regular guy who just happened to be able to throw nasty knuckle balls.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Mr_Lee_PHD said:


    On that note...

  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Dick "Nighttrain" Lane was born here in Austin. Shortly thereafter, his mother left him for dead in a dumpster. Another woman was passing by, heard him crying, and took him in to raise to be a Hall of Fame defensive back for the Detroit Lions (and for a little while, the husband of singer Dinah Washington)...

  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    When I was a kid, the '83 Memphis State tigers were my heroes...especially Keith Lee, Bobby Parks, and the dude with the greatest sports name of all time: "Doom" Haynes
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    The_Hook_Up said:
    When I was a kid, the '83 Memphis State tigers were my heroes...especially Keith Lee, Bobby Parks, and the dude with the greatest sports name of all time: "Doom" Haynes

    Was Andre Turner there yet?

    Edit: Googled it...yep, him and William Bedford. Tigers were stacked!
  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    JATX said:
    I used to love to watch Charlie Hough pitch when I was a kid. I got his autograph at a game once and, upon meeting him close up,I liked him more because he seemed like a regular guy who just happened to be able to throw nasty knuckle balls.

    I once saw Charlie smoking a cigarette in the dugout between innings....dude looked like anything but an athlete!
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    JATX said:
    I used to love to watch Charlie Hough pitch when I was a kid. I got his autograph at a game once and, upon meeting him close up,I liked him more because he seemed like a regular guy who just happened to be able to throw nasty knuckle balls.

    Ever see this poem from Bill James? (1987 Baseball Abstract):

    "Casey Chases a Knuckler"

    Rough, tough, Charlie Hough
    All eight innings had his stuff
    Floating light from Charlie's cuff
    Breaking late and just enough
    To keep the scoreboard bare.

    And yet, the Mudville fans did dare
    To hope that foul would soon turn fair.
    A single here, an error there,
    Casey stood on deck and glared
    At rough, tough Charlie Hough.

    Casey snorted, loud and gruff,
    "I'll knock that busher on his duff.
    Bring him on, I'll call his bluff;
    How dare he aim that piece of fluff
    At Casey's mighty stick?"

    A home run now would tie it quick.
    Charlie gave his wrist a flick;
    Casey took a mighty lick.
    The hearts of Mudville landed sick;
    Just three pitches did the trick
    From rough, tough, Charlie Hough.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Whcih reminds me, Hook_Up, Anthony Wilson...

  • pointmanpointman 1,042 Posts


    Apparently the story goes, Richard would be hurling his warmup pitches before the batter would step into the box and he'd scorch a few 90+ MPH strikes across the plate. Then he'd through his last warmup pitch over 100MPH at head height, denting the backstop behind the catcher, rightfully scaring the crap out of any batter that faced him.

    His career was cut short by poor management by the Astros staff that neglected the signs of a coming stroke.
  • DrWuDrWu 4,021 Posts
    Those who saw him know.

    b/w

    Cocaine is a helluva drug

  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    DrWu said:
    Those who saw him know.


    "The only way I can be stopped is to handcuff my right arm to my leg."
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