Did Piazza wear kneepads underneath his baseball pants? I saw some pictures reading about the Piazza era Mets and it certainly looks like he has knee pads under his pants.
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Originally posted by bluesky5 View PostDid Piazza wear kneepads underneath his baseball pants? I saw some pictures reading about the Piazza era Mets and it certainly looks like he has knee pads under his pants.
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Originally posted by Mongoose View Post
Lots of whispers Piazza was running around naked under his pants. It was a scandal at the time."No matter how great you were once upon a time — the years go by, and men forget,” - W. A. Phelon in Baseball Magazine in 1915. “Ross Barnes, forty years ago, was as great as Cobb or Wagner ever dared to be. Had scores been kept then as now, he would have seemed incomparably marvelous.”
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Originally posted by bluesky5 View Post
Get out you're full of it. Seriously google it. Or else the guy has the biggest kneecaps in history.
Ok where do we go from here?
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Never seen anything like it."No matter how great you were once upon a time — the years go by, and men forget,” - W. A. Phelon in Baseball Magazine in 1915. “Ross Barnes, forty years ago, was as great as Cobb or Wagner ever dared to be. Had scores been kept then as now, he would have seemed incomparably marvelous.”
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Originally posted by Paulypal View Post
You have never seen anyone have knee pads on under their pants? It happens.
FYI - Nike makes a pair of baseball sliding "shorts" that go past the knee and have padding."No matter how great you were once upon a time — the years go by, and men forget,” - W. A. Phelon in Baseball Magazine in 1915. “Ross Barnes, forty years ago, was as great as Cobb or Wagner ever dared to be. Had scores been kept then as now, he would have seemed incomparably marvelous.”
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Originally posted by bluesky5 View Post
Yea, I don't know when sliding shorts became popular but I knew about them in high school in the early 2000's. I never saw anyone wear knee pads before.
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Originally posted by Mongoose View Post
They've been around over 100 years. Cobb wore them. In fact, he stopped wearing them the year he stole 96 bases. He felt they slowed him down. He reportedly had open, infected, sores from his hips to his ankles by season's end."No matter how great you were once upon a time — the years go by, and men forget,” - W. A. Phelon in Baseball Magazine in 1915. “Ross Barnes, forty years ago, was as great as Cobb or Wagner ever dared to be. Had scores been kept then as now, he would have seemed incomparably marvelous.”
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I don't think Cobb ever slid headfirst. He was famous for leading with his spikes. If he'd started sliding headfirst, avenging infielders would have probably initiated collisions - their feet and his face.
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Originally posted by Mongoose View PostI don't think Cobb ever slid headfirst. He was famous for leading with his spikes. If he'd started sliding headfirst, avenging infielders would have probably initiated collisions - their feet and his face."No matter how great you were once upon a time — the years go by, and men forget,” - W. A. Phelon in Baseball Magazine in 1915. “Ross Barnes, forty years ago, was as great as Cobb or Wagner ever dared to be. Had scores been kept then as now, he would have seemed incomparably marvelous.”
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From Wikipedia..........for whatever that is worth:
Methods of sliding[edit]
Players generally slide feet-first but sometimes also use a head-first technique. Strictly speaking, going headfirst into a base constitutes more of a dive than a slide, but the term "slide" is still commonly used. This alternate method has been used in Major League Baseball at least since the middle-1880s when the innovation was popularized by the St. Louis Browns of the American Association.[1] Yet even in the majors, it remained relatively uncommon until it became popularized by Pete Rose in the 1960s. Headfirst sliding has since become a common practice for various players on all levels of professional baseball, but it is often restricted on the amateur level.
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Originally posted by Paulypal View PostFrom Wikipedia..........for whatever that is worth:
Methods of sliding[edit]
Players generally slide feet-first but sometimes also use a head-first technique. Strictly speaking, going headfirst into a base constitutes more of a dive than a slide, but the term "slide" is still commonly used. This alternate method has been used in Major League Baseball at least since the middle-1880s when the innovation was popularized by the St. Louis Browns of the American Association.[1] Yet even in the majors, it remained relatively uncommon until it became popularized by Pete Rose in the 1960s. Headfirst sliding has since become a common practice for various players on all levels of professional baseball, but it is often restricted on the amateur level.
"No matter how great you were once upon a time — the years go by, and men forget,” - W. A. Phelon in Baseball Magazine in 1915. “Ross Barnes, forty years ago, was as great as Cobb or Wagner ever dared to be. Had scores been kept then as now, he would have seemed incomparably marvelous.”
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