Wish Me a Happy Birthday!!
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The kids aren't awake yet to wish me a happy birthday, so I thought I would come here and beg for birthday wishes. 
Today I turned "Hank Aaron's number" years old! I am as old as Carl Yastrzemski's rookie card (I am probably a PSA 4, too many surface creases and definitely miscut).
While you are wishing me a happy birthday, don't forget to do the same for Juan Castillo, Dave Bristol, and Marty Barrett. They all share my birthday. I am convinced that people born on my birthday have the worst baseball talent of any day of the year! One hall of famer was born on 6/23 (George Weiss) but he was not a player (baseball executive or pioneer). In fact, if you look up George Weiss, it says Bats: Unknown, Throws: Unknown. Was he not able to even throw a baseball so they could see which hand he used??
My 14 year old hit the jackpot with his birthday (8/18). He shares it with Roberto Clemente. I bet the statisticians know which hand Roberto used to throw a ball.
Please go to this site (Baseball Player's Birthdays), enter your birthday, look through the list of players and pick the best baseball player (hall of fame or otherwise) born on that day. I defy any of you to find a sorrier bunch of players than those born today (6/23).
Today I turned "Hank Aaron's number" years old! I am as old as Carl Yastrzemski's rookie card (I am probably a PSA 4, too many surface creases and definitely miscut).
While you are wishing me a happy birthday, don't forget to do the same for Juan Castillo, Dave Bristol, and Marty Barrett. They all share my birthday. I am convinced that people born on my birthday have the worst baseball talent of any day of the year! One hall of famer was born on 6/23 (George Weiss) but he was not a player (baseball executive or pioneer). In fact, if you look up George Weiss, it says Bats: Unknown, Throws: Unknown. Was he not able to even throw a baseball so they could see which hand he used??
My 14 year old hit the jackpot with his birthday (8/18). He shares it with Roberto Clemente. I bet the statisticians know which hand Roberto used to throw a ball.
Please go to this site (Baseball Player's Birthdays), enter your birthday, look through the list of players and pick the best baseball player (hall of fame or otherwise) born on that day. I defy any of you to find a sorrier bunch of players than those born today (6/23).
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Jim
Greta post,
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Happy Birthday!!!
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CHEERS!!
Other things happened today in baseball:
Harmon Killebrew hit his first major league homer, off Billy Hoeft, but the Detroit Tigers beat the Washington Senators 18-7.
Happy Birthday!!
That site was excellent. I always knew I had shared the birthday of Roger Maris and Ted Klu (as well as Arnold Palmer), but never knew until now that I also shared it with the Big Unit Randy Johnson (although he is four years younger
Great link. Maybe there will be some free gradings waiting for you when you open your presents.
Keith
You know you're getting old when you share the same exact birthday as a player who is still active, but considered "over the hill" (I share mine with Kenny Lofton). The reality has finally set in that I will never realize my dream of playing in the majors!
Pete Rose Jr and Dwight Gooden, popped up on my b-day list. Guess I have a gambling or drug addiction problem to look forward to.
Scott Jeanblanc
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Collecting Nolan Ryan cards (68-94)
Two HOFers and one future HOFer on my bday: Carl Yastrzemski, Ned Hanlon (manager) and Paul Molitor. Also Michael Jackson
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April 25 :
Jacque Jones 1975
Micah Franklin 1972
Brad Clontz 1971
Sean Mulligan 1970
Darren Holmes 1966
Erik Pappas 1966
Blaine Beatty 1964
Tony Phillips 1959
Dave Owen 1958
Larry Pashnick 1956
Craig Minetto 1954
Greg Wells 1954
Bill Greif 1950
Joe Hague 1944
Ken Tatum 1944
Bob Johnson 1943
Lew Krausse 1943
Chuck Harrison 1941
"How about a little fire Scarecrow ?"
Happy b'day!
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On this date in 1988: For the fifth time, Billy Martin is replaced as the Yankees manager. Despite the team's 40-28 record, Martin is axed in favor of Lou Piniella: the Yanks will go to 45-48 the rest of the season, slipping from second place to fifth. It is the final curtain for Martin, the greatest turnaround manager in baseball history.
Happy Birthday.
As a kid, I remember reading the backs of my baseball cards pretty intently. (Not paying attention to their condition, like I should have been, or I'd be a rich man today!). I always remembered the great
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- Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, was born on this day in 1948.
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-On this day in 1966, the case of Miranda v. Arizona established the rights of the accused to have their rights explained to them upon arrest.
Soyuz 11 was launched on this day in 1971. It landed on June 30. Three cosmonauts, Georgi T. Dolrovolsky, Vladislav N. Volkov, and Viktor I. Patsayev, found dead in the craft after its automatic landing. Apparently the cause of death was loss of pressurization in the space craft during re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere
John Gotti was sentenced in New York to life in prison on this day in 1992 after being convicted of racketeering charges.
On this day in 1993, Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Virginia, sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.
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We can usually expect a good post from you, Happy Birthday Mr. Collector!
Mine is April 31st, so no one shares the joy of that day with me.
sjeanblanc: Scott, since you share a birthday with PR Jr., you don't have to worry about having a gambling problem, but you should keep an eye on your dad.
wolfbear: If you are trying to say that your list of players is worse than mine, then you stopped looking too soon. You had a HOF player on your list (Pop LLoyd). From his bio -- ...when talking great shortstops , John Henry Lloyd should be in the same class as Honus Wagner and ARod. No more complaining!
ctsoxfan: Cool that you did not need to use the website to come up with Jay Johnstone. Your also share your birthday with J.D. Drew and Kenesaw Mountain Landis (you can ban Scott from baseball for associating with gamblers).
67standup: Thanks Andrew! Your unusual (and rare) birthday reminded me that my best friend when I was in grade school was Bill Long (pitched for the Chicago White Sox...pitched the day after Tom Seaver's 300th win for that matter). Bill's birthday was February 29th, and when I was little I never could understand why he didn't have a birthday every year.
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You're an old fart! But I'm an old fart+1y+2d, as my birthday was this past Monday the 21st.
Thanks for the cool link. My wife has been bugging me to find BB player's bdays on our kids bdays and the link was of great help. Out of the four of us, our little icon girl Sara takes the top spot sharing a birthday with Willie McCovey. The rest of our bdates are mostly 'commons', but hey at least they got to lace-'em-up!
Happy B-day Bob and remember there's always someone out there lurking that's a tad older than you!
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I got Kent and Carter for March 7th. After that I dont know to many of these names or if I do they did not doing anything special
TK
March 7th
Player Year Born
Denis Boucher 1968
Jeff Kent 1968
Mauro Gozzo 1966
Jack Armstrong 1965
Wayne Edwards 1964
Keith Miller 1963
Jose Cano 1962
German Gonzalez 1962
Joe Carter 1960
Albert Hall 1958
Mike Armstrong 1954
Nyls Nyman 1954
Randy Stein 1953
Jeff Burroughs 1951
J.R. Richard 1950
Jim Howarth 1947
Glen Clark 1941
Galen Cisco 1936
Ed Bouchee 1933
Dick Rand 1931
Tom Acker 1930
Red Wilson 1929
Bobo Holloman 1925
Les Fusselman 1921
Junior Walsh 1919
Soup Campbell 1915
Jim Reninger 1915
Joe Gallagher 1914
Fred Archer 1910
Howie McFarland 1910
Dick Loftus 1901
Frank Gleich 1894
Merwin Jacobson 1894
Dave Danforth 1890
Dan Griner 1888
Tex Wisterzil 1888
Ed Willett 1884
Charlie Fallon 1881
Doc Scanlan 1881
Rube Sellers 1881
Ginger Clark 1879
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Today I turned "Hank Aaron's number" years old! >>
755 years old?
Happy Birthday!
Celebrity Bdays
I share mine with American icon and goodwill ambassador "Horshack", of Welcome Back Kotter fame.
Cool the "Mad Hungarian" and I share the same B-Day.
PackCollector: Dreifort was awesome in college at Wichita State (my hometown). Him and his brother had pretty good bats as well.
Ben
Happy Birthday!
<< <i>I've got you all beat for the crappiest players who share a birthday: Rob Deer and Steve Busby are about as good as it gets for Sep. 29th. >>
Steve,
I have to disagree. Rob Deer had 230 lifetime home runs and batted .220 lifetime (he also has his own fan club). Steve Busby had 22 wins in 1974. Mike McCormick (also born on the 29th) had 22 wins in 1967. Rich Reese (29th yet again) batted .322 in 1969. Superstars all (and amazingly all share the number "22" to symbolize their greatness).
Bob
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<< <i>For birthdays beyond baseball...
Celebrity Bdays
I share mine with American icon and goodwill ambassador "Horshack", of Welcome Back Kotter fame. >>
Wow! Now I am happy. I share my birthday with Joss Whedon (who turns 40 today)! Joss is the creator of the three best shows on TV ever (Buffy, Angel, and Firefly). Thanks for the link Andrew!
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Bob,
Great Post !!!!!!
Happy birthday
I share my birthday with Nomar Garciaparra,Don Drysdale, and PeeWee Reese.
Pretty Cool !!!!!
Hope you had a nice one. And Remember,Not one day older,One day wiser
Vic
Thanks for the birthday link. I just learned that Jimmie Foxx has the birthday as me.
Brian
I don't need to check the website to know that I share a birthday with my favorite player of all time - Willie Stargell. It just adds a little something to my collection for me. BTW, he was born exactly 30 years before I was!
JEB.
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<< <i>Bob, Happy birthday.... Not only is June 23 my birthday, but I too was born in 1960. What do you know...... Dave >>
Hmmm, my mother told me that I was a conjoined twin at birth and she named the other baby......DAVE!!! (She also said that she voted to keep him and sell me to the gypsies but my dad intervened). Happy birthday to you too!!
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