Back to the 70's Mystery Card Game Announced!

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Postby rutkap » Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:00 pm

We should still have Yount...

Wonder if we can have Dale Murphy the Catcher???
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Postby YountFan » Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:19 pm

No one will be able to afford [url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/a/aaronha01.shtml]The Hammer[/url] if they use 1969-1973.

Dick Allen, Wiliie McCovey, maybe Clemente, Yount the average hitter
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Postby albert2b » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:21 am

Here's a name I don't think anyone has mentioned yet....but he's who I think about when I think about the 70's:

[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/r/richaj.01.shtml]Mr. James Rodney Richard[/url]
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Postby LMBombers » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:48 am

Excellent name albert. JR Richard only had 5 years of over 200 IP in the 70's which works perfect for the mystery card game. Four of those years are very good. He had some walk problems in the first 2 of those years. The last 3 years are truly dominant.
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Postby Ducky » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:19 am

Welcome back Metropolitan Stadium, goodbye Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.

If we stretch back into the last few years of the 60's, Killebrew and Oliva will be a couple of good Twins players to look for.

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Postby Billings Ballers » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:27 am

Don't know if mentioned McCovey Marichal and that other Bonds
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Some of the great 70s teams....and starting pitching...

Postby Outta Leftfield » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:09 pm

One thing we've been alluding to, but not mentioning directly, are some of the great teams that would be represented by multiple players, for example:
The Big Red Machine: Morgan, Bench, Rose, Concepcion, Perez, Griffey, etc.
The early 1970s Orioles teams
The mid to late 70's Yankee, Red Sox and Royals teams
The late 70s Dodgers
The early 70s Oakland A's

...etc., etc. Most of those teams had real personalities--partly it was because this was the last era before free agency--with guys who hand long-term identification with one team—and then the era when free agency first arrived and teams were first coping with the arrival of free agent stars (e.g. Reggie and Catfish to the Yanks). Ah, the memories...

Also, this was an era of dominant starting pitchers. There are only a handful of really dominant pitchers in the 80s. In the 70s you have a bunch of guys who pitched 300 innings every year and were often dominant from year to year--Seaver, Carlton, Ryan, Palmer, Hunter, etc.... Also, more of the parks favored pitchers, and there were fewer mondo offensive years. It should be an interesting and somewhat less hitter-dominated game.

[Edit:]
Bernie says in his blog that the 70's game will come out [b:67e136cf81]before[/b:67e136cf81] the 2007 game. Cool! :D
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Postby PillPop » Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:01 pm

And if it's not a Mystery Card game? :wink:
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Postby BOBBYTHOMPSON » Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:28 pm

Good News.. There will be a Mystery Card and it will be released before the 2007 game!!!!
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Postby Yellow_Dog » Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:48 pm

Woohoo!

Good thing my wife doesn't read the credit card bill too closely... :D
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