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Happy birthday, Mike Cubbage

Happy birthday to Mike Cubbage, who turns 58 today.

Mike Cubbage was a third baseman who played for the Rangers from 1974-76.  Cubbage ended up getting dealt in the middle of the 1976 season, along with Roy Smalley, Bill Singer, and Roy Smalley Jim Gideon (and a lot of cash), to the Twins for Bert Blyleven and Danny Thompson.

He had a few nice years with the Twins, but fell off a cliff in his late 20s and was out of baseball by age 31.

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Roy Smalley

was in the same deal 2 times?

Warner Madrigal makes Ezequiel Astacio look downright handsome.

by tricer on Jul 21, 2008 2:46 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Yep

He was so good the Twins asked for him to be put in the deal twice.

"Would you mind walking a time or two so I could drive in some runs"? Milton Bradley

by boomer1 on Jul 21, 2008 2:50 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Actually the twin GM was so stupid...

...that they thought they were getting 4 players instead of 3.

Physician: Primum non nocere

Batter: First, make no out

by Chad Crudup on Jul 21, 2008 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

That was

Roy and his other brother Roy.

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

by Ed Coffin on Jul 21, 2008 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

And that's why they were traded

to the Twins.

It's baseball. You don't always get what you want, and you don't always want what you get. --Ed Coffin

by txranger7 on Jul 21, 2008 4:57 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Mike's '76 Topps card...

...was one of my earliest Ranger cards. I can still picture it.

Physician: Primum non nocere

Batter: First, make no out

by Chad Crudup on Jul 21, 2008 2:57 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

That card

was for a long time the ONE Ranger card that I needed to complete my full Topps collection. I remember sitting in Bobby V’s as a kid, and he had old Ranger cards under the glass top tables, and I saw it sitting there. I wondered for a while whether there was any way for me to pry open the top and take it…

by JBImaknee on Jul 21, 2008 3:06 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Wow...

A team got the better end of a trade with the Twins. How times have changed.

"I am not a never-nude" - Tobias Fünke

by jcAustin on Jul 21, 2008 3:16 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

ALERT!!

scott feldman starting tonight

by tyd3311 on Jul 21, 2008 3:35 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Mike Cubbage

was married to my step mom before she and my dad hooked up. The first game played in TBiA was an exhibition game vs the Mets, where Mike happened to be the third base coach at the time. She took me down to the field to meet him and he got me a Doc Gooden autographed baseball and a ball used in the game that day. Pretty cool for an 11 year kid. Happy birthday Mike.

If there were no rewards to reap,
no loving embrace to see me through this tedious path I've chosen here,
I certainly would've walked away by now... Be patient

by trident on Jul 21, 2008 4:10 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

OT: Wild Card

why is everyone already giving up on this season. we are only 5.5 games out of the wild card and we are 3 games above .500. and we have done nothing but improve since april

What if Hurley continues to pitch well and Mendoza pitches remotely close to the way pitched against the white sox??

Kinsler is the best player on the rangers(done), BENOIT SUCKS(done), bring up Harrison(done),new: Put Nippert in rotation, Mendoza to the pen, get Feliz to AAA by the end of the year, trade cat

by nice hands on Jul 21, 2008 4:31 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

You, of all people, must be kidding

http://www.halosheaven.com/2008/7/19/575064/congratulations-on-winning

And do us a favor, homey, stop making us look bad.

Don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I love .

by Brian Thomas on Jul 21, 2008 8:09 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Nice catch,

Ombudsman. Nice hands was already near the bottom of the pile, here; this cements his lowly status.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

by t ball on Jul 21, 2008 8:58 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

First you make some bad posts here...

Then you go and kiss the asses of Halos fans over there?

Thanks a lot nice hands, some Rangers fan you are.

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Jul 21, 2008 9:03 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

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