Dive! Dive! Dive!

I've always been fascinated by side armers and submariners. While not 100% about the afore mentioned type pitchers it is an interesting article.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1159429-mlb-the-30-quirkiest-pitching-deliveries-in-baseball-history

Can I safely assume the 64 in your screen name refers to the year of your birth.

It obviously has nothing to do with Willie Lanier, who wore 63, or Bob Lanier, who wore 16.

Just nosy, lol.

bcp7 wrote:

Can I safely assume the 64 in your screen name refers to the year of your birth.

It obviously has nothing to do with Willie Lanier, who wore 63, or Bob Lanier, who wore 16.

Just nosy, lol.

Yes you can safely assume it's neither. I'm a little older than that. But it has to do with the year 1964. You must be an old codger like me though if you remember Willie Lanier and Bob Lanier. And their numbers no less! I guess the vast majority of us on this site are old codgers.

I thought it referred to Hal Lanier - he broke in with the Giants in 1964. about the time I took interest in baseball.

I have a T Shirt:
Yeah I'm old, I got to see all the cool bands.

In 95, when Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were touring, I went to see them in Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland. My HS age (at the time) daughter had some friends over when I got home from the trip. Showed them a shirt from a 1979 show in England that Robert Plant had signed the day before. Once of her friends says something about how cool it was to see Page/Plant, but seeing Zep would have been cooler.
Me: " I saw Zeppelin 12 times between 1973 and 1979, I was at the Knebworth show where I got this shirt."
Kid's jaws dropped.
Daughter: "Dad, you're not going to sit here and tell dinosaur rock stories again."

boyer14 wrote:

I thought it referred to Hal Lanier - he broke in with the Giants in 1964. about the time I took interest in baseball.

You broke the code.

But back on topic: As I write this I am watching the San Jose Giants play the Stockton Ports and San Jose has a sidearmed reliever throwing who occasionally comes from "down under". They also have a full submariner in the bullpen I've seen throw before. I think my favorite submariner/sidearmer is Kent Tekulve. I used to use the 79 Tekulve card in 100m+ leagues but both of his cards are too expensive for lower caps to have basically a RH specialist.
Who's your favorite? Talk amongst yourselves.

I use use submariner Ted Abernathy occasionally. You really need to be a geezer to remember him. Hal Lanier - slick glove man and great at moving the runner along. 1986 (?) NL Manger of the Year for the Astros.