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Name your favorite sports stars as a kid (1 Viewer)

Brooks Robinson was God.
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I loved Brooks, but Paul Blair was my favorite Oriole of them all.
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:thumbup: Couldn't go wrong there, either. He was great fun to watch, too.
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Remember how he used to tuck his glove under his arm when running toward the dugout? I used to do that, too :bag: Football: Johnny U

Baseball: Blair

Basketball: Earl The Pearl

 
Kid:

Baseball: Boog Powell

Football: George Blanda, Spider Lockhart

Teen:

Baseball: Greg Luzinski, Mike Schmidt (still have my wooden Luzinski model bat at home)

Football: Ken Stabler

Hockey: Guy Lafleur, Larry Robinson

 
Baseball - WIllie Horton, Willie Mayes

Football - Gayle Sayers, Bob Hayes, Lem Barney

Basketball - Wilt Chamberlain, Dave Bing

Hockey - Gordie Howe

Detroit native
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Similar:Willie Horton, Mickey Stanley

Lem Barney, Alex Karras

Bob Lanier

*Was not a big hockey fan as a kid, but as I got older I liked Mickey Redmond and John Ogrodnick

 
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Baseball - WIllie Horton, Willie Mays

Football - Gayle Sayers, Bob Hayes, Lem Barney

Basketball - Wilt Chamberlain, Dave Bing

Hockey - Gordie Howe

Detroit native
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I'm amazed to see 2 of my favorites on one list. :thumbup:
 
Art Shamsky

Tommie Agee

Tug McGraw

Jerry Grote

Tom Seaver

Willis Reed

Walt Frazier

Dave Debusherre

Fran tarkenton

Ron Johnson

Homer Jones

Jim Katkavage

 
Baseball - Willie Stargell, Rennie Stennett

Football - Jack Lambert, John Stallworth

Basketball - Dr. J

Hockey - Rick Kehoe

 
Baseball - Dave Concepcion, Johnny Bench

Football - Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett

Boxing - Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini

Basketball - Chocolate Thunder

 
Barry Sanders, Ricky Jackson, Sam Mills, Ryne Sandberg, Eric Martin(WR-NO Saints), Dalton Hilliard(for a brief time before he ripped up his knee)

 
One stood out far ahead of any other. As a skinny white kid, growing up in the 80's, and all i did was play hockey from morning to dark, Wayne Gretzky ranked just ahead of my father and God.

 
Baseball - Jim Rice

Hockey - Mike Rogers...Mark Messier

Football - Eric Dickerson

College Football - Charles White

Lacrosse - Gary Gait

Indoor Soccer - Steve Zungal

 
NBA - Hakeem Olajuwon :thumbup:

NFL - Barry Sanders and any Domer who made it :thumbup:

MLB - Darryl Strawberry :thumbdown: and Ken Griffey Jr. :hophead:

 
here goes

MLB Kirk Gibson and Eric Davis

NFL Dan Fouts and Kellen Winslow (and the rest of the Chargers Offense)

NBA Larry Bird

NHL Wayne Gretzky

And the greatest of them all #18 Jurgen Klinsmann, German National Soccer Team Striker (and now coach)!
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Klinsmann! Klinsmann! Jurgen the German! The Golden Bomber! (see avatar)He was great in tottenham and as a national team player. It was amazing how he could change a game and a team...

No other person in the world inspired me more growing up as a young fussbol player...The man was not that technical, but he was lightning fast and could finish like no other! (kinda like my game)

I also liked Joe Montana and Jerry Rice...Steve Young was also a favorite.

Klinsmann is so passionate, when his team scores a goal, he celebrates almost as if he was on the field scoring!

Ein Polsen zum Klinsmann! :banned: Gehen sie Deutschland!!! :suds:

 
Baseball -- Carl Yastrzemski, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal

Football -- John Brodie, Daryl Lamonica, Fred Belitnikoff, Gene Washington

College Football -- Jim Plunkett

Basketball -- Lew Alcindor (before he became Kareem Abdul Jabbar), Dave Cowens

Hockey -- Phil Esposito, Alex Delvecchio, Bobby Hull, Carol Vadnais

 
Born in 1968, so I was only 4 when Roberto Clemente died. So by far my boyhood idol was Willie Stargell. Would "windmill" swing my bat in little league just the way Willie did... No other athlete came close. But I did think that Evel Kenievel was real cool!

 
here goes

MLB Kirk Gibson and Eric Davis

NFL Dan Fouts and Kellen Winslow (and the rest of the Chargers Offense)

NBA Larry Bird

NHL Wayne Gretzky

And the greatest of them all #18 Jurgen Klinsmann, German National Soccer Team Striker (and now coach)!
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Klinsmann! Klinsmann! Jurgen the German! The Golden Bomber! (see avatar)He was great in tottenham and as a national team player. It was amazing how he could change a game and a team...

No other person in the world inspired me more growing up as a young fussbol player...The man was not that technical, but he was lightning fast and could finish like no other! (kinda like my game)

I also liked Joe Montana and Jerry Rice...Steve Young was also a favorite.

Klinsmann is so passionate, when his team scores a goal, he celebrates almost as if he was on the field scoring!

Ein Polsen zum Klinsmann! :banned: Gehen sie Deutschland!!! :suds:
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I started wearing 18 because of the 90 WC in Italy! I ws never technical but could run and score like few others. Not good in the air though.
 
Kid:

Football: John Brockington

Baseball: Johnny Briggs/George Scott

Basketball: Pete Maravich/Oscar Robertson/Lucious Allen

Teen:

Football: Earl Campbell

Baseball: Robin Yount

Basketball: Dr. J

Adult:

By a landslide: Brett Favre

Up-n-comers: Rickie Weeks and Prince Fielder

 
As a pre-adolescent:

Dave Concepcion

Joe Morgan

Willie Stargell

Omar Mareno

John Riggins

As an adolescent:

Eric Davis

Tom Browning

Kenny Smith

Jay Shroeder (yes, I said it)

Jack Nicklaus

 
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Baseball: Michael Jack Schmidt, Steve Carlton (until I realized how much of ####### he was), Thurman Munson :cry:

Hockey: Phil Esposito, Guy LaFleur

Football: Nolan Cromwell, Jim Zorn

Basketball: George Gervin, Magic Johnson, David Thompson

Tennis: Bjorn Borg, Ivan Lendl

 
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Baseball -- Carl Yastrzemski, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal

Football -- John Brodie, Daryl Lamonica, Fred Belitnikoff, Gene Washington

College Football -- Jim Plunkett

Basketball -- Lew Alcindor (before he became Kareem Abdul Jabbar), Dave Cowens

Hockey -- Phil Esposito, Alex Delvecchio, Bobby Hull, Carol Vadnais
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That's a pretty serious California/Massachusetts lineup there. Did you grow up in one place and move to the other?
 
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