I’m just a bit younger than Simmons. No one wanted to be the big baseball star when we were young either. They wanted to be Magic Johnson or Larry Bird or, a bit later, MJ. My god stop this crap.https://twitter.com/jeffpearlman/status/1108761467283742720?s=21 …
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Replying to @craigcalcaterra
Depends where you lived. Bill basically grew up in the Boston Garden. Everybody I knew growing up between about 1977-83 was far more interested in the Yankees/Mets and the stars of baseball than in the NFL or NBA or NHL.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
Right, but thanks to his upbringing he should know very well that the big NBA stars were bigger from the 80s-on.
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Replying to @craigcalcaterra
After a few years of Magic & Bird, yes. In 1978, kids in Boston still wanted to be Fred Lynn or Yaz or Fisk, not Havlicek or Cowens.
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I'll grant that. But I'd argue that Bill's particular experience has him a bit more in the previous generation when it comes to athlete idolization. Almost anyone our age or younger became big sports fans in an era where basketball stars were the biggest national sports stars.
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Replying to @craigcalcaterra @baseballcrank
As I have the advantage of age, I will report that as a boy I wanted to be Duke Snider or Jackie Robinson.
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Replying to @thorn_john @baseballcrank
Would've but some money on it being High Pockets Kelly.
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Where I think we agree, anyway, is that the Angels paying Trout more than twice what Arte Moreno paid for the whole franchise 16 years ago is a pretty undeniable sign that baseball is not dying.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @craigcalcaterra
I have referred to it as "That Lively Corpse":https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/that-lively-corpse-6e28270fe1b7 …
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