Do you have any personal ties to baseball people?

[Cocos Disciples]

Are you guys friends/relatives/etc. of any baseball players, coaches, scouts, etc?

 

Pretty open question...I know a lot of Northeastern baseball coaches and some players. Nobody professional though.

 

Anyone?

[jacksonianmarch]

A few, nobody special. Just some minor leaguers still holding onto the dream.

[RedSoxRooter]

I used to be good friends with Tony Graffanino's sister. She was my manager at a restaurant in Athens GA when Tony was a rookie with the Braves. Never met him though. She was really cool (and hot).

 

She moved to Atlanta when I started school here but we didn't keep in touch.

[Beckett95]

my friends dad played MLB baseball.

 

Some of you probably heard of him if your old enough

 

Richie Hebner

[yeszir]

One time I woke up handcuffed to Billy Beane and bleeding from the ass.

 

Does that count as a personal tie?

[jacksonianmarch]

One time I woke up handcuffed to Billy Beane and bleeding from the ass.

 

Does that count as a personal tie?

 

OMFG! I just spit my beer all over my keyboard.

[jacksonianmarch]

my friends dad played MLB baseball.

 

Some of you probably heard of him if your old enough

 

Richie Hebner

 

I remember Hebner.

[Cocos Disciples]

One time I woke up handcuffed to Billy Beane and bleeding from the ass.

 

Does that count as a personal tie?

 

Classic.

[Beckett95]

I remember Hebner.

 

ya it pretty cool knowin someone like that. hes got a shitload of connections in baseball and hockey. like when we go to bruins games we sit up in the pressbox and get the free s***. he also gets us tickets to sox games occasionally and to pawsox games when they play Durham in Pawtucket. get to go in the lockerroom to after the game and talk to alot of the players. also pretty sweet going to the cages with him and actually havin a AAA hitting coach who played MLB baseball tell you wat your doin wrong. to bad his son is on my high school team and isnt even close to same hitter his dad was

[a700hitter]

my friends dad played MLB baseball.

 

Some of you probably heard of him if your old enough

 

Richie Hebner

I sawhim play. He was on some pretty good hitting Pirate teams. I think he dug graves on the weekend.

[Beckett95]

I think he dug graves on the weekend.

 

 

hahahaha you are correct. Me and my friends call his son gravedigger.

[Cityofchampions33]

Jason Schmidt, Zak Farkes in the Sox minor elague system. That's it really.

[riverside sluggers]

When I was real little and lived in Hamilton, Ma, I was neighbors with Bob Stanley the innings machine for the Red Sox

[BoSox34]

I'm related to Vic Wertz (the guy who hit the famous Willy Mays catch).

[CrespoBlows]

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/M/TroyMattes.shtml

 

Troy Mattes is the pitching coach at Riverview High School. He was in the same rotation as Kyle Snyder back in 1995 when Riverview won the state finals.

[schillingouttheks]

I lived in the same building as Johnny Damon and Manny Ramirez 3 years ago. I went to the gym across the street a lot and saw Pedro and Manny working out every now and then. I would at least say hi to them and they'd say hi back. It was pretty cool.

 

I batted with Johnny Damon at a hitting clinic for a day.

 

Zak Farkes is in the Sox' Minor League system and I know him. He played ball for my high school and works out at our gym everyday after school so I talk to him sometimes after school. I at least see him every day.

 

My mom's maiden name is Cronin, so through her side of the family I'm related to Joe Cronin.

[Youk Of The Nation]

I dated a friend of Carl Pavano's neice.

 

Never met him (he was probably at the doctors')

 

 

When I went to Pennsylvania to visit family we went to a Pirates game, and I found out my cousin worked at PNC and knew a bunch of players. At a picnic later that week Jack Wilson showed up on my cousin's invite because he knew I was an MLB fan. He was pretty cool.

[See Red]

I've mentioned it before, but I was in David Pauley's P.E. class my freshman year in High School. He was also a good friend of my brothers.

[RedSoxRooter]

At a picnic later that week .

 

[example1]

My Grandfather's Cousin was Bill Fischer (that's my mom's maiden name) pitching coach for the Sox in the 80's. A brief search shows that he was notable for a few other things:

 

"A former Marine drill instructor, Fischer established a ML record in 1962, pitching 84-1/3 consecutive innings for the A's without giving up a base on balls, surpassing Christy Mathewson's mark of 68. That season, Fischer walked only eight batters, covering 127-2/3 innings. He became a pitching coach for the Reds and Red Sox."

 

He was once traded, along with Tito Francona, for Bob Shaw and Ray Boone

 

" May 22, 1963: At Yankee Stadium, New York blows a 7–0 lead and allows Kansas City to tie the game and send it into extra innings. Mickey Mantle, leading off the 11th, is fooled by Bill Fischer on a slow curve, then cannons a 2–2 pitch that almost clears the RF roof. "The hardest ball I ever hit," Mantle later comments, a ball that, by some accounts, was still rising when it struck a foot below the top. It is conservatively estimated by Dr. James McDonald, a physicist who studies long-ball trajectories, that the ball would have traveled 620 feet if it had not struck the facade. "That was the only homer I ever hit that the bat actually bent in my hands," Mantle tells Dale Long, from whom he borrowed the bat."

 

I guess I'm fairly-closely related to someone who may have given up (one of) the longest shots in recorded history. :thumbsup:

[Thumper]

My own Grandpa played AAA in Natchez, MS. Forgot the name of the team (John something something). He was a catcher, then enlisted in the Navy during Korea.

 

I know a lot of the guys on the New Orleans Zephyrs. Larry Broadway, the first basemen, is a beast, the dude is huge when you stand next to him. He's pretty cool. He was on deck once and I was sitting behind the backstop and while the current batter kept hitting pop up fouls, he and I talked for a bit.

[BSN07]

I'm originally from Maine, I met Mike Bordick a few times and Billy Swift used to come to our spring training sessions when I was a kid to do a couple of lessons.

 

I'm related to Matt Kinney too, he's pitched in the bigs but no a household name or anything.

[ORS]

The kids who lived next to my grandmother were pretty athletic. One of them became a professional tennis player (nobody recognizable), the other a golf-pro (not on tour, but he teaches at TPC Sawgrass), and the youngest just won the MVP of the International League last year. His name is Kevin Witt.

[shortstop]

When I was younger my neighbor was in the Red Sox farm organization. He got in an accident and lost a leg and it ended his career.

[hoke3182]

My friend pitches for the reading phillies, nick evangelista, don't know if he'll ever get any where, but hopefully.

[He Hate Me]

I once worked with a guy who played minor league baseball for a few years. He and Chris Carpenter were teammates in high school.

[soxfaninaz]

i once knew a guy who was cousins with some chick who had a brother who worked with a guy who's dad had a friend that watched manny ramirez on tv

[Beckett95]

my sister dated Tim Naehring for a couple months back when he played for the Sox. I never got to meet him though, which i was kinda pissed about.

[CrespoBlows]

i once knew a guy who was cousins with some chick who had a brother who worked with a guy who's dad had a friend that watched manny ramirez on tv

 

 

What the f***?

[Sox Fan on Cape]

Growing up in Belmont, MA, my best friends dad was the shortstop for the Sox, Eddie Bressoud ( 1961-1965 ). It was kind of cool going to the games. Pulling up in the players parking lot, sitting in the first row behind home plate, going into the player's locker room after the game, fond memories.