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Old 03-10-2010, 04:28 AM
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great player whom i saw a few times as a kid but sadly i remember him most as the guy on the downslope of his career the dodgers traded to the expo's for mike marshall (the pitcher, not the outfielder).

what a great year for the dodger front office. they also sent claude osteen and some minor leaguer to houston for jimmy wynn.

i almost miss caring about baseball when i think about how great those trades were.
Jimmy Wynn! The Toy Cannon.
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God's post that dredged up Jimmy Wynn made me think for a second that it was the Toy Cannon that was involved when baseball was tracking who was going to score the 1,000,000th run in history. I thought it came down to Wynn and maybe Cesar Cedeno crossing the plate at almost the exact same time, but some research turns up the facts: It was actually Bob Watson and Davey Concepcion! (Truthfully, there isn't a whole lot seperating Bob Watson/Jimmy Wynn and Cesar Cedeno/Davey Concepcion...)

Anyway, the research to get the correct names involved turned up this terrific blog, BASEBALL MINUTIA, which I think anyone of a certain age will love.
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I actually typed (on a typewriter for you youngsters here) a letter to Cesar Cedeno, when I was a young Astros fan. I sent it to him c/o the Astrodome. I never got a response, so that became my one and only attempt at contacting a professional player. Was kind of disappointing to a 8-9 year old kid....

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I actually typed (on a typewriter for you youngsters here) a letter to Cesar Cedeno, when I was a young Astros fan. I sent it to him c/o the Astrodome. I never got a response, so that became my one and only attempt at contacting a professional player. Was kind of disappointing to a 8-9 year old kid....
Man, you are OLD. What's a typewriter?
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Man, you are OLD. What's a typewriter?
Seth..you'll appreciate this..only time I ever wrote an athlete was when I asked Rod Gilbert for his autograph...got a nice signed pic back in the mail.. Made my week
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Seth..you'll appreciate this..only time I ever wrote an athlete was when I asked Rod Gilbert for his autograph...got a nice signed pic back in the mail.. Made my week
That is awesome. I was a big Walter Tkaczuk fan myself. The "Human Tripod" as Bill Chadwick used to call him.

http://nyrangerslegends.blogspot.com...t-tkaczuk.html
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He is so old, after he typed it on the typewriter, he sent the letter via Pony Express
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He is so old, after he typed it on the typewriter, he sent the letter via Pony Express
You can do better than that.
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I actually typed (on a typewriter for you youngsters here) a letter to Cesar Cedeno, when I was a young Astros fan. I sent it to him c/o the Astrodome. I never got a response, so that became my one and only attempt at contacting a professional player. Was kind of disappointing to a 8-9 year old kid....
You're lucky he didn't seek you out during spring training some year and beat you senseless. By all accounts, Cedeno was not a pleasant guy.
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You're lucky he didn't seek you out during spring training some year and beat you senseless. By all accounts, Cedeno was not a pleasant guy.
As a kid, reading of his on the field exploits in The Sporting News and living 2,000 miles away, I didn't know anything about his demeanor.
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As a kid, reading of his on the field exploits in The Sporting News and living 2,000 miles away, I didn't know anything about his demeanor.
He was the Joey Belle of his era.
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I actually typed (on a typewriter for you youngsters here) a letter to Cesar Cedeno, when I was a young Astros fan. I sent it to him c/o the Astrodome. I never got a response, so that became my one and only attempt at contacting a professional player. Was kind of disappointing to a 8-9 year old kid....
Should have sent it in spanish and folded in a gram...
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Jimmy Wynn! The Toy Cannon.

Being a lifelong Astros fan, I still remember the year Jimmy Wynn showed up to spring training 30 pounds overweight. What did he do during the offseason. He got a job at a brewery as a beer taster.


Too bad the Astros are going to be the Lastros for the foreseeable future.
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