Comments on: Fred Lynn http://cardboardgods.net/2006/12/08/fred-lynn/ Voice of the Mathematically Eliminated Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: fredbeene http://cardboardgods.net/2006/12/08/fred-lynn/#comment-11332 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:44:34 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2006/12/08/fred-lynn/#comment-11332 Wow, what a great 1979 season Fred Lynn. How was he only 4th in MVP voting with zero 1 place votes. The top 3 were
Don Baylor
Ken Singleton
George Brett
followed by
Lynn and the other half of the dynamic duo
Rice

Fred Lynn to me had the best numbers….
Oh, are good friend Sixto Lizcano was 15th in MVP voting that year.

]]> By: davidhwillis http://cardboardgods.net/2006/12/08/fred-lynn/#comment-9961 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:13:19 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2006/12/08/fred-lynn/#comment-9961 “Fred Lynn, 1975″ is my answer to the oft-debated question (which I think has been done here, though I can’t find the player where the thread is located): “If you could be any one player in baseball history, for one season, who would you choose?”

I also first played APBA baseball in 1980, and Lynn’s 1979 card was incredible. I can still remember 1-1-6-6-6 like it was yesterday.

]]> By: catfish326 http://cardboardgods.net/2006/12/08/fred-lynn/#comment-9960 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:04:56 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2006/12/08/fred-lynn/#comment-9960 One of my favorite players of all time . . . by far my favorite Sox player. What a centerfielder. Mantle, the AL honorary captain of 1975 AL all-star team, raved about Lynn’s extraordinary talents, in the field and at the plate.

]]> By: Josh Wilker http://cardboardgods.net/2006/12/08/fred-lynn/#comment-168 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:54:18 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2006/12/08/fred-lynn/#comment-168 1.  2 comments from old CG site:

pete said…
I regarded Lynn and fellow “Gold Dust Twin” Jim Rice with awe from my perch across the Major League standings (in the NL East) when they first came up and set the AL East on fire.

His acsent/descent into better-than-average-but-not-great-ness always seemed vaguely poetic in some way.

Let us not forget the ’82 ALCS when Lynn batted .600-something and won the MVP even as the el-foldo Angels blew the series. First time that happened for a player on a losing team.

Or the (first-ever) All-Star Game grand slam and player-of-the-game honors in the 1983 contest.

With Lynn on the trading block at the 1988 trade deadline, one wonders what inspiration and productivity he could have lent to the Red Sox pennant drive that year.

Though the Sox turned their nose up at Lynn, the Tigers acquired him for a broken pop-up toaster and a smattering of “players to be named later,” and he hit seven homers over the remaining 27 games.
The Sox of course didn’t even bother showing up in the playoffs and were swept effortlessly by Oakland….

12:51 PM

spudrph said…
Wasn’t this the transaction where it was made very late at the deadline, and the Tigers had to argue to MLB that the plane Lynn was on had contacted the tower in Detroit before midnight, and therefore Lynn was a Tiger by the deadline and could be included on the postseason roster?

8:45 AM

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