Ah the good ol days of my childhood- Appier, Jeff King, Randa, Sweeney, Suppan, Febles...

It appears that mess has finally been righted however. Here, Here!

Thanks for reminding me of Chris Chambliss. :cuss::cuss::banghead:

Yep I loved the combination of Rojas and Patek and Mayberry.

I know it's unlikely for Quiz to be in the MLB HOF, but if you really look at his numbers, and really think about it, you think to yourself. "How is this guy not in the HOF?"

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He is my second favorite all time Royals pitcher, behind Steve Busby.
No disrespect intended for Sabes.

Oh, and I would take Daryl Porter at catcher and Freddie Patek at short over Wathan and U.L. Washington.

Whos the best Royals manager of all time?

Whitey Hertzog
Jim Frey
Dick Howser
John Wathan
Hal McCrae

Only one (Howser) has had his number retired.
Whitey cost us at least 1 world series in managing blunders vs Yanks in late 1970s. That's why it was so great to beat his ass in 1985. You forgot to mention Jack McKeon, who was better than Wathan. Hal McRae was the best at throwing telephones in his office.

Dick Howser, Whitey was good but couldn't get over the hump with all that talent.

One of the players who was key on that 77 team and came over in the trade for Porter was Jim Colbert. He won 18 games in 1977. Didn't pitch in the playoffs though. (Whitey!!).

He aslo threw a no hitter that year. He struck out 6 and gave up about 21 line drive screamers for outs. Wish I could find the TCJ's write up after that game. I think I have it in one of my scrapbooks. Colborn kind of chuckled about how he could have given up 7 hits if he didn't have such a great defense behind him.

I was disappointed in losing Jim Wohlford and Tom Poquette in that deal at the time. I got to know them pretty well from the front row of LF GA at the time.

Howser, Whitey, and Bob Lemon.

Hal would have been a great manager. The strike and a bad move by Herk killed his career.

Random Royal memories...

I was at a game once and saw Al Cowens hit a grand slam into the visiting bullpen in the first inning before there were any outs. That was ****in sweet. IIRC the Royals beat the Blue Jays 14-2 that day.

I always loved how when Hal McRae drew a walk........ he actually walked... all the way to first base.

I always thought Amos Otis might hit the ball farther if he didn't let go of the damn bat with one hand on his backswing every damn time.

I thought the way Darrell Porter lifted his right leg as he "swung" the bat in the batters box on his setup was cool for some reason.

Frank White was born with the nickname "Smooth" or he should have been.

Daryl Motely looked like a little body builder in his uniform.

Rich Gale started like the first 4 Royals games I ever went to.

The Royals lost like the first 9 games I ever went to. The first was a 1-0 sleeper against the Indians and I sat on the top row of the upper deck on the first base side. I cried most of the way back to the car. Hey I was a kid and my dream of getting to go to a Royals game someday had come true but then pooped on by lowly Cleveland.

I once yelled at Neifi Perez "hey Neifi just give back the 2 million on your way out and we'll call it even" after he popped out with the bases loaded. I was sitting close enough that game that I could have been heard. I hope so.

My brothers and I after drinking a few once taunted Jacques Jones by yelling "Jones is a girls name" every inning or so... and "Matt Stairs would have caught that" after a ball got away from him... Stairs had actually made a diving catch in the first.

One player that just came to mind, remember George "boomer" Scott? He was brought in to hit home runs, and went an incredible number of bats before he got one. Wasn't it about 500 at bats?

Howser