Mark the bird Fidrych run over dead by a truck he was fixing on his farm.

[BrentCrude]

Talk about a character where you don't see too many of his type playing in any pro sports today.He was only 56 and burned out fast as a kid in the mid 70's as one of the best pitchers in the major leagues.Way back when the guy reminded me of one of those environmentalist greenie nuts that look like Carrot Top that hitch hike with banjos on the freeway by ski resort towns.

I'll bet it was an organic farm with a little patch of illegal green stuff growing in a hidden area of his farm and the truck was running on french fry grease.

[bmw530i]

Brent, They were saying how they always booked him for The Monday night baseball games on ABC. He was a huge draw and Warner Wolf was the announcer at the time.
I miss Warner on local tv here where I live.
Let's go to the video tape. God bless Mr.Fidrych.

[BrentCrude]

Fidrych talk on the radio.

A couple ancient veteran sports reporters out of Minneapolis were just talking about Fidrych.I actually may have been wrong assessing his personality.I guess he wasn't glorifying being a 70's space cadette,he was just a dumb country kid being himself.I guess he sort of was the Robert De Niro sort of guy in Beat The Drum Slowly or whatever the name of that baseball movie was.It was a good movie.

Fidrych was a phenom.He used to pitch a complete game extra innings and all.Almost all his games were complete games pitched.He never wasted anytime and the games he pitched always went under 2 hours.He just pitched at a funny angle where everyone hit weak grounders.He made diddly squat as far as money was concerned.Something like 8K a year.One day he just woke up and he just couldn't pitch.He didn't even know he had a rotator cuff injury.The Twins used to draw about 6 thousand a game the day before he pitched and the next day when he was in the lineup they drew 30 some thousand watching the Tigers play the Twins.

It sounds like a good life to make a movie about.

[Bluehorseshoe]

A couple ancient veteran sports reporters out of Minneapolis were just talking about Fidrych.I actually may have been wrong assessing his personality.I guess he wasn't glorifying being a 70's space cadette,he was just a dumb country kid being himself.I guess he sort of was the Robert De Niro sort of guy in Beat The Drum Slowly or whatever the name of that baseball movie was.It was a good movie.

"Bang the Drum Slowly"

Man, was that a sad film.