ahhhhh jamie moyer at 47!! amazing he is still playing…never really paid attention to him for 20 years….now i will take time to catch a game if he is pitching…

i have a small spot for mario because he was one of the 2 first redsox cards that i got in early 1975….the other being TERRY HUGHES…..i gravitated towards the hughes card because he looked like my neighbor, and i could pronounce is name. Guerrero is very hard for 7 year old

pete millerman said…
A fitting denoument to the Guerrero saga.

It brings to light, however, a poignant and weighty question;
To whit: If the retirement of Mario Guerrero, and the blossoming of Rickey Henderson and “Billyball” presaged the winding down of your childhood and your emergence as a young adult, then – in turn – does the fact that Rickey has, just this year, finally, irrevocably, called it quits, mean that you have now, inevitably, entered “middle age?”

Or maybe there’s one last comeback tarrying in those mortal, weathered, vaunted legs…

And go easy on Dave Chalk. His 1975 Topps card (w/ the Angels) adorns my front door in eternal tribute to the NCAA basketball-forecasting prowess of the legendary Matt Pavoni.

cue: ‘Drifter’s Escape’ by Bob Dylan. One of his great elegies.

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Josh Wilker said…
I do feel bad about implicating the ever-steady Dave “Pavoni” Chalk in the portrait of the has-been and never-were A’s, but he really was winding down his career by the time he and Mario Guerrero were fighting for playing time behind the immortal Rob Picciolo.

Come back, Rickey Henderson. Now that Jessie Orosco is finally gone, you’re my only hope…

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