ABC's of Baseball

I'm stumped on B

that's funny right there

Athletics
Bat
Cardinals
Double
Error
Field
Groundball
Home run
Inning
Jerry Ford
Kansas City
Long relief
Milwaukee
New York
On base percentage
Pitch
Quality At Bat
Run
Slider
Triple
Utility
Velocity
Walk
Xtra Bases (???)
Yankees
Zero

hmmm..not sure this is turning out how skipper initially intended.

Aaron
Babe
Clemente
Doyle
Eckstein
Fingers
Grabe
Henderson
Inge
Jackson
Kaline
Lasorda
Mantle
Niekro
Ott
Puckett
Quisenberry
Reed
Seaver
Thome
Uecker
Victorino
Wagner
X - Player to be named later
Yastrzemski
Zimmerman

Xavier Paul
Xavier Nady
Xavier Hernandez
Xavier U Baseball

Atta Boy
BS call
Caught Stealing
Dad gum it
Effort
Fair
Great play
Hit
Intentional BB
Jimmy Jack
K
Lights
Mashed
Nuts
Out
Pickle
Quality Pitch
Rip
Slick
Tough
U got to be kidding me
Victory
Win
Xavier Avery
Yard
Zip

AntzDad
Bear
CADad
Dad04
Emanski's Heroes
fenwaysouth
gotwood4sale
hokieone
igball
J H
Krakatoa
Lafmom
MN-Mom
nc42dad
observer44
PGStaff
Quincy
RyanRod23
Spizzlepop
TPM
URKillingMeBlue
Vector
Will
XFactor
YoungGunDad
Zombywoof

In 1980, I was 12 years old. I probably loved baseball at that age more than anything in the world. Here are a bunch names from 1980 that bring back great memories.

Juaquin Andujar
Sal Bando
Ron Cey
Doug DeCinces
Rawly Eastwick
Mark Fidrych
Cesar Geronimo
Al Hrabosky
Mike Ivie
Tommy John
Dave Kingman
Chet Lemon
Lee Mazzilli
Jerry Narron
Jorge Orta
Rob Picciolo
Jamie Quirk
J.R. Richard
Roy Smalley
Manny Trillo
Willie Upshaw
Max Venable
Dave Winfield
Xavier Dixson (only in MiLB and only up to 1977 but he does have TWO X's in his name!)
Carl Yastrzemski
Richie Zisk

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Let's go DaddyBo! One response per person...we'll get a long 26 post string going.

Here goes...

Anheuser

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Bush

ABCs of Cardinal Baseball

August Busch
Busch Stadium
Cardinal Nation
Division Champs
Eckstein
Fredbird
Go Crazy Folks!
Harry Caray
Infield
Jack Buck
Kids Crew
La Russa
Memphis Redbirds
National League
Ozzie Smith
Pujols
Quad Cities River Bandits
Roger Dean Stadium
Stan the Man
Three Nights in August
Underrated
Vina
World Series Champions
X
Yadiar Molina
Zambrano Killers

Cutter

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Dog (hot)

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Error

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Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks

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Grand Slam!

Hot Corner

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Inning ending triple play.

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Originally posted by Bulldog 19:
ABCs of Cardinal Baseball

August Busch
Busch Stadium
Cardinal Nation
Division Champs
Eckstein
Fredbird
Go Crazy Folks!
Harry Caray
Infield
Jack Buck
Kids Crew
La Russa
Memphis Redbirds
National League
Ozzie Smith
Pujols
Quad Cities River Bandits
Roger Dean Stadium
Stan the Man
Three Nights in August
Underrated
Vina
World Series Champions
X
Yadiar Molina
Zambrano Killers

Let's see if anyone else can come up with the ABC's of their fav team. Good job!

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Jumbo Tron®

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I was going to do a Cardinals ABC, but Bulldog beat me to it, so now I'm reduced to commenting on his.

Bulldog,
Nice work, but . . .
Don't you think B should go to Boyer or Brock?
Dizzy Dean or Ducky Medwick for D?
G has to be Gibson!
I listened to Harry Caray way back when Jack Buck was his sidekick, but he can't be the Cardinals' H because he got himself tainted with Cub loser germs, so how 'bout Hornsby in the H slot?
If you moved Stan the Man to M for Musial, you could include Enos Slaughter.

Go Cards!

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When I think of Ks, I think of Mike Scott in his days with the Astros, when fans would hang up a K on the rail in the Astrodome with each strikeout. It could be an impressive line of Ks in some games.

Swampboy,
B could be birds on the bat, you made some good suggestions, but he did a good job, now come up with X!

Alston
Brewer, Buckner, Baker, Belcher
Campanella, Craig, Cey
Drysdale, Davis, Dodgers
Erskine, Ethier
Furillo, Ferguson, Fairly
Garvey, Gilliam, Guerrero, Gagne, Green, Gibson
Hershiser, Hodges, Howe, Howard, Hough, Hooton, Howe, Howell, Hatcher
Izturis
John, Johnson
Koufax, Kershaw, Karros
Lasorda, Lopes, Loney
Moon, Marshall, Martinez, Messersmith, Mota, Monday, Maldanado, Mondesi, Mattingly
Newcombe, Niedenfuer, Nomo
O'Malley, Osteen
Podres, Parker, Piazza
Questionable?
Robinson, Reese, Roseboro, Roe, Russell, Rhoden, Reuss
Scully, Snider, Sutton, Sax, Smith, Scioscia
Thomas, Trolley Dodgers
Uribe
Valenzuela, Vance
Wills, Wynn, Welch
"Xavier" Paul
Yeager
Zimmer

Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers: This was fun, and my list is probably too big? However, I know I missed some good ballplayers. I can't imagine trying to put a Yankees list together with only one name per alphabet without omitting some very good players, including many HOFers.

I would do one for Cleveland but only three of us would recognize any of the names.

...although maybe if I cheated just a bit and used Rick Vaughn, Roger Dorn, Pedro Cerrano and Jake Taylor...

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Originally posted by TPM:
Swampboy,
B could be birds on the bat, you made some good suggestions, but he did a good job, now come up with X!

According to my Cardinals Encyclopedia, there has never been a Cardinal with a last name beginning with X. We may have to go with Grover AleXander, even though it's cheap to claim another team's Hall of Famer who just happened to play for our team near the end of his career. Maybe kmoX? Really reaching here.

I don't think it has to be players names, there should be other phrases that some would relate to a specific team.

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Lot (parking)

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ABCs of Minor League Baseball

Appalachian League
Bus trips
Cornbelters, Normal
Dyersville, IA
Entertainment
Frontier League
Gulf Coast League
Hammons Field
Interstate travel
Jupiter, Florida
Knights Stadium
Louisville Slugger Field
Memphis Redbirds
Nelson W. Wolff Municipal Stadium
Oneok Field
Pacific Coast League
Quad Cities River Bandits
River City Rascals
Springfield Cardinals
Travelers, Arkansas
U.S. Steel Yard
Vermont Lake Monsters
Washington Wild Things
X
Yakima Bears
Zebulon, NC

Okay Bulldog, now you've Quad City River Bandits twice and you're not even trying on X!

We might have to talk to one of the moderators about you.

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Pinch hitting for Pedro Borbon... Manny Mota... Mota... Mota...

ABC's of the Boston Red Sox

Bronson Arroyo
Bucky F'n Dent
Carlton Fisk and Tony Conigliaro
Dick Pole
Dwight Evans
Fenway Park
Green Monstah
Harry Frazee - the man who sold Babe Ruth
The Idiots of 2004
Jim Rice
K's, as in 20 for Roger Clemens in 1986
Grady F'n Little
Manny Being Manny
Nomah and NESN
Oil Can Boyd
Big Papi and Pesky's Pole
Rey Quinones
Dave "Hey Everyone in the World, I'm Gonna Steal Second" Roberts
Bill " Spaceman" Lee
Trot Nixon and Luis Tiant
Youuuuuuuuuuk
Hippo Vaughn - Chicago Cubs' losing pitcher in Game One of the 1918 World Series
Duh, Ted Williams
Dave Sax
Yawkey Way and Yaz
Don Zimmer

ABC's of the Dodgers

Doug Mientkiewicz - every vowel except A!
Dusty Baker
Los Angeles Colliseum
Dodger Town and Dodger Dogs
Andre Either
Fernando Mania
Steve Garvey
Chuck Connors
Cesar Izturis
Tommy John
Kirk Gibson
Tommy Lasorda and Late Arriving Crowds
Rick Monday - played for the Dodgers but was on the Cubs AGAINST the Dodgers when he saved the US Flag from some Commie Hippies at Dodger Stadium
Tom Niedenfuer
Orel
The Penguin
Paul Quantrill
Bill Russell
Reggie Smith
Todd Worrell
Bill Russell and Pedro Guerrero
Vin Scully
Bob Welch
Steve Sax
Steve Yeager
Mike Piazza

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Nematodes...a turf management nightmare!

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