Comeback Kids

[Big Hath]

With the recent comebacks of Rickey and Oil Can, ESPN has an article on who else they think should make a comeback.  Some RBI'ers are mentioned:

Willie McGee, because beauty is fleeting but beautifully ugly lasts forever.

Tony Gwynn, because he could still rap singles to the opposite field all day, because he could someday rap singles to the opposite field sitting in a rocker, and because I'd like to see him do it, just so I could watch the expression on the face of some young flamethrower who was sure he'd get it by the old man.

Jeffrey Leonard, because I ask you, where is the stone-cold goofiness of the one-flap-down home run trot now? Who even comes close to that in terms of intended toughness that is actually just hilarious? He stands alone on this, right?

Fernando Valenzuela, because you can't say he's too old if you don't really have any idea how old he is in the first place.


And this one was just plain funny:

Mackey Sasser, Steve Sax and Chuck Knoblauch, because I can envision a very entertaining "skills" competition at All-Star weekend.

[PHole717]

Nando.... =D

[ultimate7]

Here's a great write up about how old Rickey Henderson is

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=schwarz_alan&id=2068703

[Gantry]

Two good writeups, my favorite on Henderson:

"Henderson is so old, one of his former teammates (Tommy John) and one of Babe Ruth's teammates (Lefty Gomez) shared a teammate (Early Wynn)."