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DEC
Goodnight Helmet Boy
It’s been a while since I’ve had a quality baseball post, so you get one today. This week a sad announcement came out of Boston that John Olerud is retiring after 16 years in the bigs.
John is retiring with an amazing career batting average of .295, and an even more amazing career fielding percentage of .995! He has two World Series rings, both earned in Toronto when the Blue Jays won back-to-back titles in 1992-93. To go along with that John won the AL Gold Glove three times: in 2000, 2002, and 2003.
Being in the Northwest I had the benefit of watching John play from 2000-2004 with the Mariners. He was one of those players that seemed happy to come to the ballpark every day. He was never boastful. He let his bat and glove do his talking. And that swing! I put his swing in the same category as Ted Williams and Will Clark. For me to put anyone in any category with The Kid (Ted, if you don’t know) is a BIG thing. I was happy that the Red Sox picked him up this last year, but was disappointed with the way that Tito handled the platoon at first. But hey, there’s next year. Only next year will be without Olerud.
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