Comments on: Darrel Chaney

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:42:53 +0000

16. 15 : Good point. I was ignorant about the particulars of the Hamilton deal, which is so far looking like a win-win.

By: Todd S

Todd S — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:24:08 +0000

15. 9 "Why couldn't the Reds have had both (and not Cory Patterson)?" Presumably, because trading Hamilton allowed them to have both Jay Bruce and Edinson Volquez.

By: spudrph

spudrph — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:51:51 +0000

14. "corrupt medieval bishop"-Priceless.

By: Perry534

Perry534 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:42:47 +0000

13. The request was probably “act like you’re backhanding one in the hole.” But Darrell’s heart clearly wasn’t in it, probably because it’s about 8 am (check that shadow) and he’s hung over.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:57:13 +0000

12. 10 : “Can you tell us what the photographer was asking him to do for that shot?”

I wish I had either A) access to that information, or B) the imagination to come up with a plausible hypothesis. The pose seems like a cross between a pitcher follow-through pose and a more-awkward version of Terry Harmon’s (see link in sidebar under Phillies) “waiting to make the catch and apply the tag” pose.

11 : Thanks for that interesting hometown info. Chaney notes that he was an “All-American” high school football player in a Born Again autobiographical piece at the link below:

http://tinyurl.com/6p3und

By: Peanut

Peanut — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:40:23 +0000

11. Darrel Chaney went to my high school about 25 years before I did. I think he was a star athlete in baseball, basketball, and football, so he had his picture up on the walls near the gym. Somebody had this card, so we kind of knew who he was. The only other names on the wall that we recognized were the ones who became teachers or parents at the school.

By: Gilberto Reyes

Gilberto Reyes — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:34:08 +0000

10. Darrel Chaney puts on his "corrupt medieval bishop" face for his 1975 card. That cracks me up. Can you tell us what the photographer was asking him to do for that shot?

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:29:49 +0000

9. 8 : On the subject of the Reds and who to keep and who to let go, I just heard on the radio today that the rationale for letting Josh Hamilton go was that it would open up space for Jay Bruce, so I guess the Reds were sizing up the relative merits of those two. Both are looking pretty great, which I guess raises the painful question, Why couldn't the Reds have had both (and not Cory Patterson)?

By: Perry534

Perry534 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:15:53 +0000

8. Chaney actually was the same age and came up at the same time as another SS with the initials DC, Dave Concepcion. And for the first couple of years it wasn’t clear that Davey was going to hit any more than Chaney would. In ’72 Concepcion figured it out with the stick enough that he got a stranglehold on the job and was on his way to a borderline HOF career, while Chaney never did and was kept around only because he could play 3 infield positions well.

Something similar happened with the Reds in ’87 with two young shortstops. One, age 22, hit 258/316/375. The other, a year older, hit 244/306/371. The Reds traded the first guy, Kurt Stillwell, and kept the second guy — Barry Larkin.

Don’t know if I have a point, other than the old one about hindsight.

By: Joe Romano

Joe Romano — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:06:19 +0000

7. ”An outstanding glove man.”

It would be funny to turn over a card and see a player described as “a leg man”.