RIP '78 Red Sox Bob Bailey

[Papo The Snow Tiger]

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/bob-bailey-montreal-expos-1.4481971

Every time I see a replay of the '78 playoff game I still wish the Sox never would have gotten rid of Bernie Carbo. Bailey never had a chance against Rich Gossage.

The Expos were my "National League" team, but I never knew he got the first hit in Expos history.

RIP Beetle.

 

[ifmanis5]

Bob Bailey was the baseball card you never wanted but ended up with 6 of them anyway. RIP.

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

Bob Bailey was the baseball card you never wanted but ended up with 6 of them anyway. RIP.

Funnily enough, my main Bob Bailey memory relates exactly to this.

It’s 1968: I’m 7 and my big brother is 10. It’s the first year I got baseball cards, and by August or so I had a pretty good collection going.

My brother invites me to sit down and trade with him and quickly identifies the 4-5 best cards in my pile — I remember Frank Howard, Kaline, Ernie Banks, McCovey... (No Red Sox —I was only 7, and he knew I’d never trade a Red Sox.)

For those 4-5 cards, he offered me “Slugger Bob Bailey”. He got me intrigued because of the presumably made-up nickname “Slugger Bob Bailey”, and then heavily pimped the fact that Bailey had been traded to the Dodgers for Maury Wills, who he assured me was a hall of famer.

Still bitter? Sure. And I always held that against Bob Bailey.

Postscript: my brother grew up to be a much more honorable man than me.

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

Edit: double post

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

Edit: whoa, Gogo inflight...

 

[ifmanis5]

To be fair, ripping off little kids and their best cards is a long honored tradition.

 

[54thMA]

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/bob-bailey-montreal-expos-1.4481971

Every time I see a replay of the '78 playoff game.................

Every time? How many times have you seen it?

I've only watched that game, game 6 of the 86 WS, game 7 of the 2003 ALCS and the Scottish game once.

Once was more than enough in each case.

Bailey would have had a better shot getting a hit vs Gossage in that game with a log.

 

[terrynever]

In fairness to Bailey, 1978 was his final season. He hit 189 homers over 17 seasons, pretty much defined mediocrity. One of the final bonus babies before baseball instituted a free agent draft.

Pretty candid interview here:

https://www.ocregister.com/2014/03/17/krikorian-retired-baseball-vet-bob-bailey-reminisces-on-living-a-dream/

 

[Mighty Joe Young]

Every time? How many times have you seen it?

I've only watched that game, game 6 of the 86 WS, game 7 of the 2003 ALCS and the Scottish game once.

Once was more than enough in each case.

Bailey would have had a better shot getting a hit vs Gossage in that game with a log.

Scottish game?

 

[EddieYost]

It is one of the Giants Super Bowl losses. I think the second one. I always forget why its called that. Maybe the kicker?

 

[Humphrey]

The only name I associate with the Pats SB losses to the GIants would be Helmet Catch Game.

Bailey pinch hit for Jack Brohamer who was playing third because Butch Hobson's elbow wouldn't let him make a routine throw to first. Hobson DH'd because Rice was playing RF because Dwight Evans got beaned in early September and, if it were 2017. would have been on the disabled list.

Somehow, Evans got sent up to pinch hit in the 9th. Concussion or no concussion.

Bottom Line: The Sox put together a great starting lineup and make absolutely no attempt to have a bench to go along with it; compounded with Zimmer hating Carbo and demanding they get rid of him.

 

[Hawk68]

In fairness to Bailey, 1978 was his final season. He hit 189 homers over 17 seasons, pretty much defined mediocrity. One of the final bonus babies before baseball instituted a free agent draft.

Pretty candid interview here:

https://www.ocregister.com/2014/03/17/krikorian-retired-baseball-vet-bob-bailey-reminisces-on-living-a-dream/

Never remember a man for what he did last. Instead, remember him for what he did best.

R.I.P Bob.

 

[54thMA]

Scottish game?

The game that shall not be mentioned, otherwise known as the 2008 Super Bowl vs the Giants.

 

[terrynever]

Never remember a man for what he did last. Instead, remember him for what he did best.

R.I.P Bob.

I thought the story linked was well done, and showed that Bailey lived a great life, as he told the writer. The story had nothing to do what Bailey did last, except for his dying.
Not sure your quote is true anymore. Joe Paterno and Bill Cosby, Kevin Spacey and Louis CK, they would disagree. Will we remember them for what they did best?
Paterno said as much to his son Jay before he died, that he would be remembered for what he did not do. The others have yet to comment on their legacies.

 

[Papo The Snow Tiger]

Every time? How many times have you seen it?

I've only watched that game, game 6 of the 86 WS, game 7 of the 2003 ALCS and the Scottish game once.

Once was more than enough in each case.

Bailey would have had a better shot getting a hit vs Gossage in that game with a log.

 

[Papo The Snow Tiger]

I actually have the '78 playoff game on tape. On some cable channel they used to show "Baseball's Greatest Games" and I taped it for posterity. I remember the day of that game very well; I was a freshman in college away form home for the first time in Pennsylvania and I had a physics lab that afternoon. About half the class cut out early the first time the professor turned his back that afternoon to go and watch the game. That game marked the end of the '70's really good Red Sox teams. Now that I've seen three Red Sox World Championships I'll watch the tape once in a while just to see Yaz, Rice, Lynn, Evans, Fisk, Burleson, Remy and the rest of those guys and reminisce.

 

[BuellMiller]

Bob Bailey was the baseball card you never wanted but ended up with 6 of them anyway. RIP.

I think my very first glove was "signed" by Bob Bailey. I once turned an unassisted triple play in t-ball with that glove...

 

[Norm Siebern]

I was at the game. I was a HS senior skipping school that day, sitting under the deck in the Third Base grandstand, and I had a better chance of getting a bat on a Gossage fastball than Bailey did. From where I was seated.

May he rest in peace.