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Originally Posted by lungs
Is the Dale Murphy argument one of those "you had to be there to understand" arguments?
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I think Alan T's comment about how at the time it wasn't a question of if but simply just a matter of when kinda describes it as well as anything.
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Of course I have a sneaking suspicion that Dale Murphy is the epitome of what you consider to be the glory days of your baseball memories?
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Eh, although it's a fair question IMO, that'd probably be a stretch in my case. If you absolutely pinned me down to a specific timeframe for the absolute height of my baseball memories/fandom it would likely be the Garvey-Lopes-Russell-Cey era in Los Angeles, so more like 74-80 (ages 7-13 for me). Murphy was only a 3rd year starter in '80 and was still a couple of years away from his first MVP season.