Happy birthday, Buddy Bell

by Adam J. Morris on Aug 27, 2008 2:45 PM CDT Comment 18 comments

Happy birthday to Buddy Bell, who turns 57 today...

Buddy Bell was my favorite player as a kid, a guy who come about 2 healthy seasons short of having a legit claim as a Hall of Famer. I was really bummed out when he was traded to the Reds for Duane Walker and a PTBNL, although that trade worked out pretty well for Texas, since the PTBNL was Jeff Russell.

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It was a good trade but...

…it did hurt this 15-year-old a lot at the time.

Physician: Primum non nocere

Batter: First, make no out

by Chad Crudup on Aug 27, 2008 2:49 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I usually bypass these birthday shoutouts, but......

my Grandmother loved Buddy Bell with a passion!! We used to talk about him all the time when I would go visit her. God rest her soul.

Buddy Bell was awesome back in the day!!

i like baseball too

by bspate on Aug 27, 2008 2:55 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Buddy Bell

He was probably the favorite player of any Ranger fan that is now in their mid to late 30’s. I know he was mine.

Happy birthday Buddy Bell.

by Chris Hanes on Aug 27, 2008 4:05 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Yep.

Although I did love me some Al Oliver and Jim Sundberg and Jim Kern, Bell was da man.

Last week I took a pleasure trip. I drove my wife to the airport.

by Brian Thomas on Aug 27, 2008 5:34 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

amen

wishing him the best

Zap Brannigan... you're my hero.....

by hotshot215 on Aug 27, 2008 6:32 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bell really wanted out of here in '85

after Bobby V became the manager and didn’t get along with him when he came back for that short spell in ’89.

Absolutely one of my favorite players when this team was really, really bad (’82-85 was sickening).

"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."

by Josey Wales on Aug 27, 2008 4:07 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

One of my favorite Ranger memories....

…is being in attendance when Bell hit a walk-off game winning Grand Slam vs Milwaukee. He is my favorite Ranger of all time.

by bflood36 on Aug 27, 2008 4:18 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

The internet rocks

Here is the boxscore.

"Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states" - Barack Obama

by DaheelzCM on Aug 27, 2008 4:21 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I can't tell you how many times...

…I have looked that box score up. I wasn’t at that game but sure wish I had been. Check out the attendance figure. I remember reading about the game in the paper the next day and I remember the story made mention of just how few of those 9000-some-odd fans were still in the park when Bell hit the homer.

Physician: Primum non nocere

Batter: First, make no out

by Chad Crudup on Aug 27, 2008 4:37 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs