The 1993 Toronto team had the to 3 in the league in batting average! Inconcievable!

Batting Average
Olerud-TOR .363
Molitor-TOR .332
Alomar-TOR .326
Lofton-CLE .325
Baerga-CLE .321

c'est la vie say the old folks,
it goes to show you never can tell

The M's now have a bookstore in Safeco? That's more plausible than getting Pat, isn't it?

Well, Olerud is still around. I'm sure he'll be with the Red Sox at some point this year.

The M's now have a bookstore in Safeco?

Jeez, now they won't let us bring books into the games, either.

Jeez, now they won't let us bring books into the games, either.

When I was young, my father (who isn't a sports fan at all) would bring a book to the game and read. I'm cheering futilely for Pat Kelly or Bob Geren and he's got his nose buried in Nietzsche or Cassirer or something. I thought it was a little embarrassing at the time. At this point, I appreciate that my father paid good money to attend an event he didn't care for.

I see Shawn Green and Carlos Delgado combined to hit .000 for that '93 team. Obviously they won't last.

Well, I'm not really counting Green or Delgado - they only got a few at-bats for the team and weren't on the playoff roster.

I do love that acronym for the first letters of the surnames of the 1993 Jays hitters.

WAMCO

Good stuff.

I was attending college outside of Philadelphia in 1993. The whole dorm shook each time the Phillies did something good in the playoffs, and each time Lenny Dykstra injected himself with something.

Only 3 of the 1993 White Sox are still playing. Jesus I feel old.

Hometown boy Mike Redmond wasn't available?

here really thought that the last remaining Jays from that World Series would be Pat Borders, Al Leiter, Woody Williams, and Mike Timlin?

Rickey says Rickey is still playing and Rickey feels Rickey will be in the Majors this year before all is said and done.

Rickey also says that Olerud reminds Rickey of this first baseman on the Mets that used to wear his helmet on the field.

Who's the 24 year old pitcher?

Pat Hentgen.

Hentgen

Huh, without even thinking about it, I was assuming Juan Guzman. Man, that guy exploded on the scene and the just disappeared.

Slightly on-topic story: The VP of my company is retiring, and I was in his office giving him a hand with some program that wasn't working or something. Anyway, I ask him if he was watching the Jays much this year, since he had some autographed baseballs around and he said he hadn't. And that he didn't really like baseball all that much. Which was news to me since I've worked with this guys for 6 years.

Anyway, he tells me all the baseball stuff was sent to him from the team when they used to be season ticket holders back in the day. Especially three autographed baseballs from Olerud, Molitor and Alomar from 1993. He then urged me to take it, as he didn't care for it. But I couldn't do it, I suggested he give them to a gandchild or a relative or something and he insisted he didn't care. In the end, I suggested that if he felt the same when when it was actually time for him to leave, to swing by my office.

I think I did the right thing, but damn, I've thought about those baseballs every day since then.

The Borders Books in Bellevue Square, of one the biggest malls in the Seattle area, just announced it would be closing. Coincidence - I don't think so...

Only 3 of the 1993 White Sox are still playing. Jesus I feel old.

Only three 1993 Phillies also ...

Three members of the Braves' rotation alone are still active. Javy Lopez and Larry Jones also got some ABs that year. I'm not sure if Tony Tarasco is still kicking around, but he played a little bit on that team, too.

Plus Mike Stanton. And you never know, Fred McGriff might get the itch to try for No. 500 again.

Looking at the Yankees team from that year, two of them are currently on the Yankee coaching staff. Mattingly and Monteleone, Yankee greats both.

"Paging Bend Avis. Bend Avis to the white courtesy telephone..."

Let's not forget bloody sock man