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R.I.P. Snider is actually a significant part of my childhood, not of course because of his starring role on the Only Team That Ever Mattered (and we shouldn’t forget the 140+ OPS he put up for the surprise World Champion Dodgers either) but because he was the analyst on the Expos broadcasts I cut my baseball teeth on (along with recent HOF inductee Dave Van Horne.) His memorably expressed point that the early-80s Expos lacked a left-handed hitter with “hair on his butt” still holds up!


Speaking of which, let’s give it up for Mr. Woodie Fryman. I have earlier sports memories, but the check-swing bloop single Bob Boone hit off Woodie in the top of the 9th in the penultimate game of the 1980 season was my real introduction to sports, i.e. searing pain. Somehow that was worse than the Schmidt homer it set up (just as Posada’s bullshit bloop double off Pedro in the 2003 ALCS is much worse for me than the Boone homer.) He came to Montreal when he was 38, and after getting his feet wet was a hell of a reliever for three years. R.I.P.

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