Earliest Sports Idols- Who you got?

[Aucater 150]

Micky Mantle, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Roger Maris , Larry Burson, Lamar Rawson Tucker Frederickson, Jimmy Sidle come to mind

[augolf1716 21,167]

3 hours ago, Aucater said:

Micky Mantle, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Roger Maris , Larry Burson, Lamar Rawson Tucker Frederickson, Jimmy Sidle come to mind

Yankee fan I see....good to see

[JDUBB4AU 5,121]

4 hours ago, Aucater said:

Micky Mantle, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Roger Maris , Larry Burson, Lamar Rawson Tucker Frederickson, Jimmy Sidle come to mind

Good lord . I bet Moses autographed your bible too. 

[Grumps 3,704]

Baseball: Phil Niekro, Biff Pocoroba (best name ever!)

NFL: Jim Hart/Terry Metcalf/Mel Gray/Tom Banks/Conrad Dobler/Roger Wehrli (I don't know why I was a St. Louis Cardinals fan)/Sweetness

Auburn: Football - Frank Warren/Andrews/Cribbs/Brooks Basketball Stan Pietkiewicz

 

[Bro Johnny Mac 1,394]

Johnny Bench

Roger Staubach

Joe Cribs

Bo Jackson

Dale Murphy 

 

 

[gr82be 14,425]

9 hours ago, Grumps said:

Basketball Stan Pietkiewicz

Used to listen to those games on the radio and the time outs that were taken while Stan looked for his contact lens that was occasionally lost during a game. Seemed to happen often, the earlier version of the cramp timeout of todays game. 🤔

[augolf1716 21,167]

I left out my biggest idol shame shame shame on me

Golf Ben Hogan 

[Aucater 150]

15 hours ago, augolf1716 said:

Yankee fan I see....good to see

Yep, most of the kids where I lived in Thomson Ga in the early 60's were Yankee's fans. 

[Aucater 150]

14 hours ago, JDUBB4AU said:

Good lord . I bet Moses autographed your bible too. 

Yet bet, you either get older or the alternative. 

[JDUBB4AU 5,121]

MJ

Bo

Manny Ramirez

Jose Canseco

 

[Swamp Eagle 5,140]

[Tigermike 3,029]

Mickey Mantle

Yogi Berra

Johnny Unitas

Raymond Berry

Tucker Frederickson

Jimmy Sidle

Bill Braswell - we went to the same HS.  He was a few years older

Freddie Hyatt

David Langner

[augolf1716 21,167]

5 hours ago, Tigermike said:

Mickey Mantle

Yogi Berra

Johnny Unitas

Raymond Berry

Tucker Frederickson

Jimmy Sidle

Bill Braswell - we went to the same HS.  He was a few years older

Freddie Hyatt

David Langner

 

Humm an old Baltimore Colt fan 

[WarrrEagleHey 268]

On 12/12/2023 at 7:06 AM, creed said:

No one has this person? You're all a bunch of fakes....lol

Me actually, lol. I was very young but I remember my dad just thinking he was an absolutely phenomenal athlete. And the Wheaties box, of course.  In my mind he was just the epitome of an All American athlete.

Edited December 18, 2023 by WarrrEagleHey

[toddc 13,194]

Dick Butkas

Hank Aaron

Fred Belitnikoff

Terry Beasley and Pat Sullivan from Auburn