Comments on: Bruce Boisclair

By: Ruthven

Ruthven — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:07:09 +0000

If you were a Phillies fan, Del Unser couldnt have been your hero. He was the clutch playoff and World Series hero for the Phillies in 1980.

Barry Foote maybe, but he wasnt on the team very long. But you would have loved Danny Ozark.

By: celerinosanchezsombrero

celerinosanchezsombrero — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:04:29 +0000

Bruce Boisclair was another in a long line of thoroughly mediocre Mets outfielders in the mid-seventies thru early eighties, such as Jim Beauchamp, Jim Gosger, George Theodore, Dan Hahn, and Dave Schneck.

By: Icaros

Icaros — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:14:22 +0000

13. I used to fantasize about using the fungo bat myself. I was pretty small and scrawny, so I had a hard time generating much bat speed. The fungo bats felt a lot like wiffle-bats, and I was an awesome wiffle-ball hitter.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:59:18 +0000

12. 11 That's gotta be the explanation for that bat. Thanks, Icaros. Your story of the pitcher getting a hit with "The Log" reminded me of the time the cleanup hitter for my lousy Babe Ruth league team went up to the plate with a fungo bat.

By: Icaros

Icaros — Tue, 15 May 2007 02:19:48 +0000

11. Sometimes those aluminum bats are just heavily weighted warmup bats. We had one in high school that had "The Log" printed on the barrel, but it was not made of wood. One of our pitchers used the bat during an intersquad game and got a hit. It was quite hilarious at the time.

By: Ennui Willie Keeler

Ennui Willie Keeler — Tue, 15 May 2007 01:07:17 +0000

10. I never knew that Olney was a Dodger fan. My neighborhood in north central Connecticut seemed to be evenly divided between Sox and Yankee fans. I don't think that the Mets broadcast on TV in that market until the 80's. 660 reaches the are loud and clear, but the Mets weren't on that freq until 1988.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Mon, 14 May 2007 22:10:23 +0000

9. 8: True, true. There were some Yankee fans in my town, and I always had the feeling it was even more that way down by Rutland and Killington. Oddly, in all my years in Central Vermont and also while going to college in Johnson, Vermont (farther north), I never met an Expos fan. The most famous baseball guy to come out of my Vermont town, Buster Olney, was a strident, impassioned Los Angeles Dodger fan.

By: The Mick 536

The Mick 536 — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:58:15 +0000

8. Not everyone in Vermont who follows baseball roots for the Sox. 105.3 out of Killington carries Suzyn and Sterling. As for Bruce, musta missed him. Nice call on the bat.

By: sly jones

sly jones — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:53:52 +0000

7. That bat really is chumpy-looking. The Topps photographer shoulda completed the look by having him hit off a tee.

By: Eric Enders

Eric Enders — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:52:27 +0000

6. "I have come to believe that if I had grown up in New Jersey, I would have been chronically beaten by bullies." Either that, or abducted from an upstairs window by Bruno Hauptmann. Knowing nothing of Hopewell, New Jersey, other than that incident, that's the first thing that came to mind.