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Thinking about the mad stylee of Bake McBride, I kind of regret not being born earlier to have witnessed (at the very least) the audacious uniforms/hair in the 70s and early 80s. And on top of the fashion, there would've been the Big Red Machine and the A's in the 70s too!

Pick Only One Decade!

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Thursday, 15 April 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i thank god every day i wasn't alive in the 70s for precisely that reason. the world was an aesthetic nightmare. honestly i find it offensive when people even ironically proclaim their love for the baseball unis (and fashion in general) of that time. the pirates had cool caps, though.

if i could time machine myself back to a baseball decade, i think i'd pick a pre-1920 one, actually. it was a completely different ballgame back then, and far more explosive. i'm gonna say the 1910s, with cobb and wagner and plenty of fistfights.

― John (jdahlem), Thursday, 15 April 2004 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I was there, my children.

C'mon, the Padres looked like giant circus peanuts and the Astros were stained with varieties of Special Sauce yet undiscovered...

The '70s are always given short shrift by the Pop History types (eg Ken Burns). The brawlin A's, Mike Greatest Third Baseman Schmidt, Reggie, Seaver, Palmer, Carlton, Aaron 715, Bench, Morgan and the Big Red Machine, the '75 Series, the youth of Brett, Fisk, Rickey and Yount, Gaylord's spitter, Willie back for a bow in New York, Yankee wife-swapping and Bronx Zooing, Pops Stargell, the Spaceman vs Bowie, Bowie vs Finley, The Bird's summer of '76, Steincrapper vs Billy, Clemente's swan song, Bert Blyleven, the DH squabble, Oscar Gamble's fro, the return of Veeck and the White Sox in shorts ... truly a Golden Age!

And best of all, you used your ace reliever WHATEVER FUCKING INNING you needed him.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 April 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I loved those great 70s films about the Allstar game and World Series. WGN used to show them during Cubs rain delays when I was growing up and some of them are great, usually narrated by someone like Curt Gowdy and have that cool 70s "this week in baseball/monday night football" style theme music.

My first baseball game was the Reds vs. Astros in 1976 when I was six years old at Riverfront Stadium. I don't remember too much about the game other than being a bit freaked out by sitting in the upper deck and I got a small Bench #5 jersey that day.

― earlnash, Thursday, 15 April 2004 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

WGN used to show them during Cubs rain delays when I was growing up

Really? It seems like I always caught the Mr. Belvedere reruns during the rain delays. The genius of Eucker was totally lost on me at that young age, though.

― mattbot (mattbot), Thursday, 15 April 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Errr, Uecker. Apologies.

― mattbot (mattbot), Thursday, 15 April 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The '50s. Post-integration, but more old-school than the '60s. Plus Spahn & Sain, Willie, Mickey and the Duke, Ted Williams, etc.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 15 April 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the natural choice here is to go with the decade you grew up, when you first got intro baseball. For me, that's the 80's, so that's my final answer, Regis.

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 15 April 2004 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i know it's cheating, but i'm going to second milo - i would most like to watch baseball in the dead ball era, but my favorite decade is probably the 50s, for the reasons milo states + the utter yankee domination. my reservation about that decade is that the style of baseball was really a pretty dull one - pretty much like today's, but with less home runs (and maybe even less baserunning).

― John (jdahlem), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

If we include the Negro Leagues (and I don't see why not), I might go '30s. You've still got some quirky ballparks, I can see Paige and Josh Gibson at their peaks, Mel Ott (best swing EVAH), Jimmie Foxx, Carl Hubbell (the world needs more screwball pitchers), etc.

I think the natural choice here is to go with the decade you grew up, when you first got intro baseball. For me, that's the 80's, so that's my final answer,
Not for me, I don't care about the late-80s/early-90s at all.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

see, i just miss the days of the filthy, lunkhead slugger.

come back gorman thomas!

― j.q. higgins, Friday, 16 April 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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