Dugout

It's basically the 'TWIB Notes' of the FFCB.

Welcome to the dugout. Here you’ll find the post archive for all the content coming ‘Out of Left Field’. Also included on this page are random HOF player profiles, quotes and anything else we can think of. How ’bout that!

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Manager Lou Brown: “He was an All-Star in Boston, wasn’t he?”
GM Charlie Donovan: “Yeah, wound up in the Mexican League. Had problems with his knees.”
Pitching coach Pepper Leach: “Wish we had him two years ago.”
Donovan: “We did.”
Leach: “Four years ago, then.”

—Lou Brown, Major League

Out of Left Field

A growing collection of random thoughts, notes and stories from over 60 years of combined baseball fan and card collecting experiences!

Haywood swings and crushes this one towards South America. Tomlinson is gonna need a Visa to catch this one, it is out of here, and there is nothing left but a vapor trail.

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Ken Griffey Jr.

He entered the game with not just mere potential. From the day the Seattle Mariners made him the first pick in the 1987 MLB Draft, Ken Griffey Jr. was expected to be great.

Twenty-two seasons, 630 home runs and a sea of accolades later, the kid dubbed “The Natural” delivered everything his skills and makeup promised.