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re: RIP Dave Parker
Posted on 6/28/25 at 4:49 pm to InkStainedWretch
Posted on 6/28/25 at 4:49 pm to InkStainedWretch
My profile pic here for a while. I was never a huge Pirates fan, but that We Are Family World Series against the O’s was a huge part of my formative years as a baseball fan.
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Posted on 6/28/25 at 5:06 pm to 1801
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he was the first million dollar MLB player -
No. That was Nolan Ryan. I remember when it happened.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 5:17 pm to InkStainedWretch
Rest easy Cobra.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 5:26 pm to MMauler
quote:
quote:
he was the first million dollar MLB player -
No. That was Nolan Ryan. I remember when it happened.
Nov. 19, 1979
Free agent Nolan Ryan becomes baseball's first guaranteed million-dollar man, signing a four-year, $4.5 million contract with the Houston Astros.
A year earlier Pirates outfielder Dave Parker earned $1 million but unlike Ryan's deal, Parker's salary was laced with incentives to reach the milestone.
https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.stltoday.com/sports/professional/mlb/cardinals/money-ball-player-compensation-from/html_bdf51496-567d-11e0-a4cf-00127992bc8b.html
Parker was the first to earn $1M in a single season -
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:57 pm to OWLFAN86
Dave Parker and Gary Carter. Two greats that both barely made it into the HOF.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 8:19 pm to InkStainedWretch
RIP Cobra. Loved you with my Reds in the 80's. Yet another vestige of my youth gone.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 9:49 pm to High C
Love this photo. Grant Jackson appears to be hotboxing a smoke too behind Cobra
Posted on 6/28/25 at 10:01 pm to Ghost of Colby
Carter took six ballots and I agree should have been first ballot, but the people who got in ahead of him while he was waiting weren’t exactly chopped liver: George Brett, Carlton Fisk, Tony Perez, Kirby Puckett, Nolan Ryan, Ozzie Smith, Don Sutton, Dave Winfield and Robin Yount.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 10:02 pm to InkStainedWretch
A great great player….RIP.
Posted on 6/29/25 at 7:58 am to Ghost of Colby
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Dave Parker and Gary Carter.
one has very few contemporaries
Parker was a great player, but not a HOF'er.
Posted on 6/29/25 at 8:38 am to InkStainedWretch
Cannon of an arm in Right Field
Posted on 6/29/25 at 9:00 am to msudawg1200
Parker knew the value and proper use of stirrups
Posted on 6/29/25 at 3:35 pm to OWLFAN86
Thank you, that’s the play I vividly remember from my youth and if you lived it, it’s the exact memory you have of the Cobra.
Throwback uniform weekends the umps should mandatorily have to wear those jackets and hats, tight.
Throwback uniform weekends the umps should mandatorily have to wear those jackets and hats, tight.
Posted on 6/29/25 at 10:15 pm to InkStainedWretch
Did he warm up with a sledgehammer or was that a little league dugout rumor?
Posted on 6/30/25 at 12:57 pm to Warheel
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Love this photo. Grant Jackson appears to be hotboxing a smoke too behind Cobra
Grant Jackson was my little league coach for a few years and I played with his son (Grant). Grant Sr. used to bring ex players and friends to help coach and Dave Parker came to practice once or twice when he was in town. The guy was a blast to be around and would help with hitting and would laugh that we had to go elsewhere if we wanted to learn about infield. The times he showed up were the most upbeat practices we ever had (I'm sure there's a joke you could put in here).
RIP Cobra, you were one of a kind.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:41 pm to alajones
I think Willie Stargell warmed with the sledge. I remember a bat looked like a twig in Parker’s hands. He could flip his wrists and double off the wall.
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