12-16-2024, 07:45 PM
(12-08-2024, 11:10 PM)samhain Wrote: Saw today that my favorite Red of all time finally gets to go to Cooperstown. He got in on the Classic Baseball Era comittee ballot alongside Phillies great Dick Allen.
Parker was a Cincinnati native. He won an MVP with Pittsburgh before signing as a FA with the Reds. He was an imposing figure with big time power and a cannon arm in RF. He was also part of a cocaine scandal in Pittsburgh that undoubtedly damaged his chances of getting in sooner.
Always good to see a Red get in, and especially nice to see Parker in particular.
Great news and well deserved. Someone who went to Reds Spring Training when he was w the team said he never saw any human being more supremely confident doing anything than Dave Parker on a baseball diamond. Nuxhall called the big man Parkway, and I know Nux and Marty loved him. Thanks for posting this. Brings me joy
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
