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RIP Rusty Staub

#1 Post by Vandal » Thu Mar 29, 2018 7:07 am

Former MLB star with Expos and Mets is dead at 73.

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#2 Post by mellytu74 » Thu Mar 29, 2018 8:18 am

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#3 Post by flockofseagulls104 » Thu Mar 29, 2018 8:23 am

To show how much times have changed, I remember Staub starting off with the Houston Colt 45's, who later became the Astros. Naming a baseball team after a gun? What were they thinking? I think we should boycott them.
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#4 Post by elwoodblues » Thu Mar 29, 2018 1:23 pm

He had one of baseball's best nicknames, Le Grande Orange, when he played in Montreal. RIP
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#5 Post by BackInTex » Thu Mar 29, 2018 1:52 pm

flockofseagulls104 wrote:To show how much times have changed, I remember Staub starting off with the Houston Colt 45's, who later became the Astros. Naming a baseball team after a gun? What were they thinking? I think we should boycott them.
No, they were named after a malt liquor.
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#6 Post by flockofseagulls104 » Thu Mar 29, 2018 5:04 pm

BackInTex wrote:
flockofseagulls104 wrote:To show how much times have changed, I remember Staub starting off with the Houston Colt 45's, who later became the Astros. Naming a baseball team after a gun? What were they thinking? I think we should boycott them.
No, they were named after a malt liquor.
Which was named after a gun, right?
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#7 Post by wbtravis007 » Fri Mar 30, 2018 12:00 pm

Staub was great. I watched him play quite a bit as a Colt-45 and Astro. He was 19 when he came up with the 45's. I was 9.

The company that my Dad worked for had great season tickets -- about 10 rows up, by third base. If customers weren't using them they were available, so we went to quite a few games. He was a good hitter, but what I most remember is how often he would gun down runners trying to advance from second after a fly out to right. Not many made it to third safe. I had a great view of them trying.
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#8 Post by Vandal » Fri Mar 30, 2018 12:54 pm

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#9 Post by wbtravis007 » Fri Mar 30, 2018 2:53 pm

BackInTex wrote:
flockofseagulls104 wrote:To show how much times have changed, I remember Staub starting off with the Houston Colt 45's, who later became the Astros. Naming a baseball team after a gun? What were they thinking? I think we should boycott them.
No, they were named after a malt liquor.
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