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Originally Posted by REDeYeS00
RIP Bob Gibson
he was a mean mother****er and i loved him for that.
And I hated him, but not for being a mean MF.
I was 11 in 1967 and just starting Little League. As a lefty, I patterned my batting stance after one of the biggest left-handed stars in the game, Carl Yastrzemski. And since Miami didn't have a baseball team in those days (and we've barely had one since), I became a lifelong Boston Red Sox fan that year, which was of course, the year of the Impossible Dream.
The Red Sox faced the Cardinals in the World Series that year, and Bob Gibson utterly destroyed the dream single-handedly with his right arm. He won 3 games (1,4 & 7), pitching all 27 innings and giving up a total of 3 runs, the last 2 in game 7 when the Cardinals already had a commanding lead and the series won.
I never forgave him for destroying a little boy's dream.
Until now.
RIP Bob