On The Registry - Who Scared You With Glasses?

dalew · February 3, 2003 10:23AM

Ryne Duren - Fred Gladding. Who is your favorite for being the one that could hit you with a pitch if he wasn't wearing his glasses?

murcerfan · February 3, 2003 10:25AM

wilbur wood

Mantlefan · February 3, 2003 10:35AM

Duren...he could throw smoke and he couldn't see well, even with his glasses! What a friendly face.

Basilone · February 3, 2003 10:37AM

Bob Veale...no question.

John

toppsgun · February 3, 2003 11:12AM

Don Drysdale.

He wasn't blind or wild. He just threw at you to back you off the plate. What was he, 6'6"?

qualitycards · February 3, 2003 11:22AM

I actually like the answers posted.
To loosen up Duren would throw his first pitch wild to the backstop, then add that he was a flake and had a serious drinking problem, who in his right mind would bear down?
Regarding Don Drysdale, he once stated that he would throw at a batter on consecutive pitches, so the batter would know the first one wasn't a mistake!
Randy Johnson wears contacts so he sorta counts, what lefty wouldn't risk death or loss of limb bearing down on him. Case in point the All Star game in Baltimore '94 when he pitched to Kruk...classic....jay

dude · February 3, 2003 11:54AM

If you ever watched Troy Percival pitch, he squints his eyes like he can barely see home plate. In his earlier years with the Angels he could routinely eclipse 100 mph on the radar gun.

LuxuryWines · February 3, 2003 12:00PM

I would have to say Bob Gibson the man wwas just plain ornery... The plate was his and kindaseemed to like hitting the occaisonal batter or two.....

purelyPSA · February 4, 2003 3:41AM

Claude Raymond. If he couldn't see well enough to know his fly was open on two different cards, how the heck could he see home plate?

gemint · February 4, 2003 4:10AM

I would have to say Doc Ellis. Oh wait, that was due to the drugs, not his eye sight (Hit the first 4 or 5 Reds batters in a game in 1970 before being lifted for relief before he killed someone).

aro13 · February 4, 2003 4:43AM

My vote would go to Tom Henke. He was a big man to begin with and than when he would squint in, adjust his glasses, no hitter could have felt safe. He did however, have excellent control. Might have helped if he had thrown a few Nuke Laloosh pitches.

qualitycards · February 4, 2003 5:29AM

Claude Raymond. If he couldn't see well enough to know his fly was open on two different cards, how the heck could he see home plate?
Now thats a good answer

...jay

ArchStanton · February 4, 2003 5:45AM

Bob Veale

I don't know if this is true. I heard that right after he got contacts, he wore his glasses out to the mound and threw seven warm-up pitches. He then called a coach out to the mound as he wiped his sweat-soaked face. He handed his glasses to the coach, squinted toward home plate, then threw his last warm-up pitch. It was a fastball that crashed into the backstop about twelve feet off of the ground. - Now that's intimidating!

robstar · February 4, 2003 5:45AM

I was always amazed with KENT TEKULVE. aka." Tek-noid ". He had that awesome submarine delivery.

Rob...

Cubfan · February 4, 2003 6:32AM

I remember a guy on the Astros named Charley Kerfeld, or something like that, who was a John Candy lookalike with black athletic glasses, was a punk rock fan and who didnt have the best control either. I just remember that he was a free spirit who had pretty good success against the Cubs.

As for scary looking, how about that former glasses-wearing Cub Paul Reuschel...not exactly a person you would think was a professional athlete if you saw him on the street.

gemint · February 4, 2003 7:30AM

How about Steve Blass in 1973? 27 SO, 84 W! If he wasn't wearing contacts, he should have!

Mantlefan · February 4, 2003 8:05AM

We forgot the "Wild Thing" in "Major League".

Caramels · February 4, 2003 4:00PM

Kent Tukulvi

TULIP MAN DAN

" if I get a 9,I won't whine.but if I get an 8, I will regirgitate!"

On The Registry - Who Scared You With Glasses?

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