Comments on: Greg Gross

By: Sox Fan In NYC

Sox Fan In NYC — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:26:15 +0000

7. There’s a man on 43rd street in Manhattan, a block away from grand central station. Every day this guy sets up a table, and puts out cardboard boxes full of unopened plastic packages. Future Cardboard Gods, I guess you could call them. This block isn’t particularly tourist-filled, as they’d run towards the ‘I Heart NYC’ stores or be too busy glancing up to see the Chrysler building tower over Grand Central to notice a simple folding table cluttered with boxes and boxes of cards.

It’s the office guys who stop. It’s hard not to, when an unopened silver package of 15 cards has Ken Griffey Jr. on it’s cover with ‘$3.50 or 2/$5′ scribbled on it in black marker glisten shines up at you.

That guy is a priest. And that folding table is an alter for the Cardboard Gods. =)

By: Ken Noe

Ken Noe — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:57:32 +0000

6. Seals and Crofts? "Summer breeze, makes me feel fine..."

By: Lonnie Smith for president

Lonnie Smith for president — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:15:18 +0000

5. Jaime Sommers and Steve Austin?
Steve Austin and Bigfoot?
Pink Lady and Jeff…?

I guess that would technically be Three Freaks, though apart from the language differences, Kei and Mie didn’t seem especially freakish. Jeff, on the other hand, that boy wasn’t right.

By: Joe Romano

Joe Romano — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:14:31 +0000

4. His final HR, his first in 9 years, was a 2-run shot in the top of the 9th off Lance McCullers in San Diego on May 27, 1987 that provided the margin of victory in a 6-4 win. He made a 17 year career out of being a very reliable pinch hitter.

By: sly jones

sly jones — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:52:10 +0000

3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
Shields and Yarnell?
England Dan and John Ford Coley?

I’m on tenterhooks.

Retrosheet says Greg Gross hit three of those five homers at Wrigley (wind must’ve been blowing out) and the other two in back-to-back games in the launching pad that was Fulton County Stadium.

By: John Sapovits

John Sapovits — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:39:13 +0000

2. During his time with the Phillies Greg Gross came to my junior high school to give a talk. What I still remember is he wore purple pants. This was also the headline in the school paper. Obviously he left an impression on our young minds.

By: Brewer Bertram

Brewer Bertram — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:32:46 +0000

1. Oh, ho ho, the plot, as they say, thickens...There may prove to be something sinister here, like the "Men in Black" who appear fleetingly after the disturbing sightings of the Mothman in John Keel's book. Greg Gross' career total of 7 home runs in 17 season's may only seem lacking in power until compared to Duane Kuiper's ONE bomb in his very long and successful career.