Comments on: Stan Bahnsen

By: celerinosanchezsombrero

celerinosanchezsombrero — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:06:51 +0000

I submit that the Stan Bahnsen-Rich McKinney trade prevented the 1972 Yankees from winning the American League East that year, as their starting pitching faded badly in the middle of September and the urgency of having someone like Bahnsen was painfully evident. For anyone who may cast aspersions on Bahnsen, first try looking closely at his pitching lines for his rookie year and the couple of years that followed. The man was a truly brilliant pitcher for some less-than brilliant Yankee teams and should never have been traded.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:55:37 +0000

Hi bahnsenj14,

Thanks for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate hearing from someone in the Bahnsen family. I think most of us who like talking over 1970s baseball on this site understand that the guys we’re talking about were phenomenal athletes and successful people far beyond our own successes, and more than that we also have genuine love for those players, who were the heroes of our youth. I think when the discussion turns into humorous and sarcastic riffing on cards that we found funny as kids, we’re more trying to tap into the things that made us laugh as a kid than trying to disparage the players in the cards. In other words, speaking for myself anyway: no disrespect intended.

By: bahnsenj14

bahnsenj14 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:28:49 +0000

You did a nice job putting this together. This is my relative and i appreciate that your information was right. What i dont appreciate is that some of these people are commenting very rudely towards him. I dont see any of you people in the MLB so dont talk about him like that. And the reason his nickname was Bahnsen Burner was because on an average pitch he could pitch in the mid 90′s which was a huge feat in the 60′s-70′s and even today.

By: kieser78

kieser78 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:36:14 +0000

It is actually eJb

exposition
Jarry Park
Baseball

Shaped into an M

I read that somewhere… now I will admit that it took me five years to figure out the Milwaukee Brewer Ball and Glove logo…and that the moment it clicked was similar to the ending of the Usual Suspects for me.

By: Champ Summers

Champ Summers — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:35:55 +0000

17. You know...I spent most of my youth wondering what the hell e-l-b meant on the Expos' caps. It wasn't until my teen years that I realized that it was a multi-colored "M". What a letdown.

By: Boooooog

Boooooog — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:59:46 +0000

16. Maybe Joe Namath was channeling the vibes from this picture when he hit on Suzy Kolber during a sideline interview during a Jets game (I think it was a ESPN Sunday night game) a few years back. My first thought when I saw this was the at least passing resemblance of Bahnsen to Joe Willie.

By: Jeb

Jeb — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:40:36 +0000

15. He reminds me of "your wicked Uncle Ernie" from The Who's song "fiddle about"...

By: Joe Romano

Joe Romano — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:28:32 +0000

14. He looks like an aging barfly in this picture. If you had told me that this photo was taken on Old Timer's day ten years later, I would have believed it.

By: spudrph

spudrph — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:12:50 +0000

13. I love the line about misremembering a definition-we've all had the feeling of thinking you know a word, then looking it up and seeing either that you weren't even close, or that you thought it meant the exact opposite of what it actually means. Bahnsen's name always slightly troubled me. Something about it just sounded wrong, for some reason.

By: Ennui Willie Keeler

Ennui Willie Keeler — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:30:03 +0000

12. Bahnsen played while I followed baseball, but I have no recollection of him. I recognize the name, but I have no baseball memory of him. That's okay, because he probably doesn't remember me. I do wonder if he was one of the Expos who used to hang out at the Launching Pad; a little hidey hole somewhere in the bowels of Olympic Stadium where (according to Dick Williams) players used to toke up during games. That might explain the nickname Bahnsen Burner. But I hope that I didn't just Babe Dahlgren him.