vida blue hall of fame

Tony La Russa managed the three-time AL champion team from 1988-90, which won the World Series against the Giants in 1989, with a roster that included first baseman Mark McGwire, another inductee. Of cocaine, Blue said it was something “that happened in my life that you can’t erase. In 1978, he joined the Giants and is only one of 10 major league pitchers to top 300 strike outs (301) in one season.

Similarity Scores. He went to prison and was banned for … “So had I hurt myself, I’m sure he would have rolled me off the field and put my uniform on some other guy to take my place. The inaugural class last year featured five baseball Hall of Famers, including outfielders Rickey Henderson and Reggie Jackson, and pitchers Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers and Dennis Eckersley.

“Thanks to Bob Melvin, his coaching staff. Left-handed pitcher Vida Blue and shortstop Bert Campaneris were key members of the three-time championship team of the 1970s. Vida Blue 1971 Game by Game Pitching Logs. All I know is I played baseball.

Salaries. He started in the All-Star Game that year with credit for the American League’s win. Explanation of Similarity Scores; Transactions. We had a nice run, and now to get this Hall of Fame jacket, that’s the closer.”La Russa is the only member of the 2019 class who is also enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Walter A. Haas, Jr. owned the team during that run of World Series appearances.“This Hall of Fame induction completes the circle,” said La Russa, who won 798 games over 10 years as the A’s skipper.

“The inmates might be running the asylum now, but still, I think the players would be (supportive) of him like 100 percent.

Had the opportunity to come back as the manager in the ‘80s, fell into a great situation, great veterans, great young guys.

Just wondering, why he isn't in the HOF? Hometown favorite Mickey Lolich was credited with the save, the first official save in an MLB All-Star Game.  

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I think I got a lot out of baseball and I think I gave a lot to baseball.

But it happened, I dealt with it and you move forward.”Granted, it’s over-simplistic to say cocaine alone cost Blue the Hall of Fame. Vida Blue was credited with the win. Notes: The Date / Box field has a link to the box score from the game being described. Those stats arguably place him in front of dubious Hall of Famers like Jesse Haines, Rube Marquard and the teammate who got into Cooperstown fairly easily with the writers but who Blue was actually a bit better than, Catfish Hunter.None of those men had Blue’s 1971 season, either, where he won the American League Cy Young and Most Valuable Player awards and made the covers of Newsweek and Sports Illustrated as a 21-year-old phenom.All the same, cocaine addiction derailed the second half of Blue’s career, with Blue drawing a 90-day jail sentence and his name coming up in the Pittsburgh Drug Trials late in his career.

He played as a left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball between 1969 and 1986, most notably as an integral member of the Oakland Athletics dynasty that won three consecutive World Series championships between 1972 and 1974.

Vida came back to post a 6-10 record–far removed from his sensational 1971 season. He played in the majors for 17 years and has a lifetime ERA 3.26.Inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.© 2008–2019 Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame | Design and Developed by :