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Two players hit 300 home runs during the 80s. You're looking at them. Only one is in the Hall of Fame. Both should be.
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Throwing it back to 1985… candid pics of Doc and I during the shoot of the ‘Stickball’ poster. This is in Brooklyn (DUMBO district) the day after the 1985 All-Star game. Doc and I signed copies of the poster… they’re at my foundation’s store…share.google/t4oGwi5bT8xHmby…
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I'm old enough to remember a ball like this being an infield fly if runners were on base.
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Great card! Rick was on the podcast we had a wonderful talk about baseball and Dale Murphy’s HOF case.
I decided this counts as a Murphy collectible and added this gem to my collection this week. #MurphyToTheHall
(Rick is another big Murphy fan, helps shine public light on Murph’s HOF candidacy, and is a really awesome guy as well.)
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2026 marks the 40th year that the #Braves have worn their primary white home (and gray away) uniforms along with the navy cap with red bill. The tomahawk also returned for the first time since 1962.
Here's a look from the 1987 Fan magazine.
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🔥⚾️🎨 Today on the Beauty of a Game Substack - a look at legendary Atlanta Braves (and more!) artist Wayland Moore.
Thanks to Ron Davis for sharing a couple of pieces with me for the article. @moreron
beautyofagame.substack.com/p…
#BaseballArt #SportsArt #SportsArtist
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Bob Horner and I were destined to be teammates somewhere. I signed a letter of intent to play baseball at Arizona State before I was drafted. Bob played at ASU and ended up in Atlanta my first full year in the major leagues—1978. One way or another, it was bound to happen.
From the minute Bob Horner joined the Braves, all us players could see he was good. I mean… really good. And that swing—short and quick, x or and could turn around anybody’s fast ball. And Bob knew the strike zone. He just did not swing at a bad pitch (like I had a tendency to do a little too often…) He was a unique talent and I was very lucky to be in the lineup with him most of my career. All of my numbers were better when he was hitting behind me. And that fact is not lost on me. I know my career was better because of him.
It’s been a hard few weeks for the Braves Family losing Ted and Bobby—and now Bob. These 3 men all had such a profound impact on my career. I am forever grateful.
Nancy and I will miss Bob and our hearts go out to Chris and Trent and Tyler, along with their entire family.
The older we get, the more we cherish wonderful memories and this past month has brought a flood of them back to us. The gratitude we feel for them all has been overwhelming.
Rest well, my friend and teammate.
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Not enough people talk about Bob Horner
• .277/.340/.499 (.839 OPS), 127 OPS+
• Drafted 1st overall in '78 from ASU
• Won ROY that same year, age 20
• (Skipped the minors altogether)
• Had 218 HR, 685 RBI, 21.9 WAR
• Never struck out more than 75x
• Hit 20+ homers 7x in 9 seasons
• Got MVP votes 3x, 1982 All-Star
• Averaged 35 HR, 109 RBI per 162
• Top B-R Similarity Score: Al Rosen
• Unfortunately, couldn't stay healthy
• Hit 6 bombs off Fernando Valenzuela
• Hit 4 homers in a game his team LOST
• Possible HOF'er w/ better conditioning
• Got 0 votes on his only HOF ballot in '94
• Spent 1987 in Japan and really went nuts:
• .327 BA, 31 HR, 73 RBI, 1.106 OPS in 93 GP
• Never had a 3-HR game, only a 4-HR game
• Gave up #5 to Rick Cerone, for some reason
• College Baseball HOF inaugural class of 2006
• During the years of his career (1978-1988), Bob Horner had by far the most home runs of any player with fewer than 4000 AB
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Super Sky Point to Bob Horner. He was the NL Rookie of the Year and an All-Star but if you were around back then you know he was more than that. Much more. He was a fixture in the homes of millions of us through the miracle of cable television during those epic childhood summers that seemed like they’d never end.
I was a fan for over 40 years but had never met Bob until I interviewed him last December about Dale Murphy’s Hall of Fame case. As you’d expect, Bob was a fierce advocate for his fellow Fulton County basher. How could he not be? They were Murph and Horner. Horner and Murph. The Hall and Oates of the Launching Pad.
You know, these sky points all suck to write but this one hurts more than most. The four-homer game, the bad perm, Chief Noc-A-Homa waiting by his teepee for another Horner long ball. I have tweeted a lot about Bob Horner through the years and it’s because he represents to me, and I suspect many of you too, something far bigger than baseball: WTBS coming out of the magic box on top of my 400-pound Zenith, cool air coming through my bedroom window after another afternoon of Wiffle Ball, and Rick Mahler (probably) toeing the rubber at about 7:05 while hoping to keep the Braves in it with smoke and mirrors long enough for Horner and Murph to do some damage. And me sprawled out on green and yellow shag carpet in Kentucky paying 100 times more attention to Skip Caray, Ernie Johnson, and Pete Van Wieren than any of my teachers.
Farewell, you sweet slugging bastard. Tell St. Peter you brought your glove for the hot corner and to write you into the cleanup spot. #RIP
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In honor of the Atlanta Braves becoming the first MLB team to hit 30 wins on the season, here’s a #ThrowbackThursday to when I got a smorgasbord of awesome Braves pieces from artist Gypsy Oak.
@Braves @BravesVintage @BravesOnWTBS @BravesHistorian @DaleMurphy3 @moreron
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Here’s a look at a sample of some cards on their way out into the wild…@Topps @Fanatics #printerplates
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Fun night, y’all! Wow. Want to let you know….We’ve reprinted the Power Alley poster. Get one signed by me, all proceeds go to the Dale Murphy Foundation here>>>>dalemurphyfoundation.org/sho… Thank you!!! @Braves
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“Chicks dig the long ball” commercial. Glavine and Maddux train to become HR hitters
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this was scott adams’s favorite dilbert comic
you shall live on forever in your body of work, sir 🫡
