Tom Poquette.... He'll leave the light on for ya! lol

I miss Cookie Rojas.

RIP Double Barrel Darrell

Dude had some serious demons in his life.

My first baseball memory was a double header my dad took me too and then Royals stadium. I'm guessing it was probably 77 or 78 so I was six or seven years old. I remember a bench clearing brawl when one of the Royals got hit, I can't remember who it was. The next inning Al Hrbosky threw at a guys head and actually charged the plate. Another brawl ensued. I thought it was the coolest ****ing thing ever!

I also remember going to a Royals/Yankess game in 80. Brett when deep twice to Reggies one. I think he was in the .420 plus range after that game. That was the year he chased .400. In my mind he was a baseball god and really I still feel that way :)

By the way, I don't think I saw anyone mention Quiz.

um...the last name on the OP

I figured I missed it somewhere.

Too obvious.

Not sure if it was the same game, but I remember a game similar when Hrbosky threw 2 pitches at Lymon Bostock's head. After the 2nd one, all hell broke loose. George Brett body slammed Angels Manager Jim Fregosi.

Yes indeed.....the coolest ****ing thing ever!

It could have been.

Baseball was way different back then. I saw a Royals/Yankess playoff game on ESPN classic a few years ago. I remember watching the series but I don't remember no one getting thrown out when Nettles and Brett duked it out at thirdy. Today, they would have probably suspended them for the rest of the series.

Ah, when men were allowed to be men.

Rangers pitcher Ed Farmer put two Royals out for months in one game. He hit Al Cowens in the jaw with a fastball (and pretty much f'ed up the rest of his career) then hit Frank White on the hands, breaking one of his fingers... in the SAME GAME.

Cowens attacked Farmer the next year, btw...here's the story on that:
http://gregeno.blogspot.com/2005/06/...n-chicago.html

Mike Sweeney had the best body slam on Detroit Pitcher Jeff Weaver. That was one of the best baseball fights, because Sweeney was such an unlikely candidate to pop his cork. I guess Weaver just said the magic word...
http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1239718

Hebosky nick name was 'The Mad Hungarian'. He would stand off the pitchers mound and face towards second base. He would then look down to the ground and meditate for a few seconds and then slam the ball into his glove and the crowd would go wild. It was a great act.

Mike Sweeney, he was great in that year the Royals almost went .500

The oldest ones I can remember were back when Whitey Herzog was the coach and we had Fred Patek, John Mayberry, Buck Martinez, Steve Busby, Amos Otis, etc.

RF Al Cowens (until he got beaned and broke his jaw).

in 1980, Hurdle played in right. And had his only truly decent year at the plate in the bigs.

Tom Poquette and Joe Zdeb platooned at one outfield spot sometime in that era, until Poquette ran into the wall (before it was padded). Poquette was never the same after. Al Cowens, btw, was never the same after he was beaned. Cowens was a rising star.

Jose Cardenal played one of the outfield spots. He struck out to end the 1980 WS.

Man, look at those stats. Boy has the game changed. 37 complete games for the starting staff. 16 complete games from Larry Gura out of 36 starts. Three starting pitchers with more than 200 innings.

Quisenberry had 128 innings as the primary closer in 75 appearances. We had pretty much a 2 man bullpen. Marty Patton had 89 inning in 37 appearances...and no one else had more than 33. I guess Rene Martin was the 5 starter/long relief guy. He had both starting and reliever appearances.