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Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

batmagadanleadoff Dec 15 2015 03:06 PM

The year's almost over and I've neglected to maintain my annual tradition of cramming a shitload of Vida Blue pictures into one post. Plus, Edgy can tell everybody how much he loves that '71 Vida Blue action shot SI cover from the peak of VidaMania. So here's a quickie quiz to get that post going. Which Met was a high school teammate of Vida Blue?

cooby classic Dec 15 2015 03:24 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

Seaver

G-Fafif Dec 15 2015 04:27 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

I do hope Vida Blue is content. I didn't know this off the top of my head, so I checked the one source that figured to lead to the answer and recognized the shared hometown immediately. Just one nearby river to cross to find the answer.

Zvon Dec 15 2015 04:39 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

I'm a big Blue fan. Tugger? [fimg=200:e3jkpp31]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9Yxilx08yMs/VHUjN47CX_I/AAAAAAAAVw4/ZYP1_ho0HAo/s486-Ic42/74mfcWSgm5-Blue-z14.png[/fimg:e3jkpp31][fimg=200:e3jkpp31]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QYCpsH9EQPA/VDnxh4UAPLI/AAAAAAAAVFI/AjDviM2tC9E/s576-Ic42/bfc74VidaBlue-z14.png[/fimg:e3jkpp31] [fimg=400:e3jkpp31]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qSKsBpHEkCA/VTgqFmbYK0I/AAAAAAAAZTQ/MC3C69WFgKA/s764-Ic42/74mfcVIDA%252520BLUE-z15.png[/fimg:e3jkpp31]

Edgy MD Dec 15 2015 06:18 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

Milner.

cooby classic Dec 15 2015 07:55 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

Milner is from Atlanta, AIR. Is VIda from SOCAL?

batmagadanleadoff Dec 15 2015 08:20 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

It's not Seaver or Milner or McGraw. Blue hails from Louisiana, where he was also a star high school quarterback who received several college football offers. Blue's favorite high school wide receiver target was this same Met who is the answer to this quiz.

cooby classic Dec 15 2015 08:21 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

Good heavens, not Rusty?

batmagadanleadoff Dec 15 2015 08:28 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

cooby wrote: Good heavens, not Rusty? There's too much of an age difference for Louisiana Rusty and Blue to have been high school teammates. Staub was already in his 5th major league season when the A's drafted Blue out of High School. Besides, Rusty as a wide receiver?

d'Kong76 Dec 15 2015 08:49 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

If anyone gets this, they cheated. Rusty was more a tight end!

batmagadanleadoff Dec 15 2015 08:53 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

d'Kong76 wrote: If anyone gets this, they cheated. I dunno about that. The answer's kinda floating in here somewhere. Or rolling. It's down by ... ah, never mind.

d'Kong76 Dec 15 2015 09:01 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

I may have cheated to wrong guess. I'll tell mine when over.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 15 2015 10:27 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

Ike Hampton.

Edgy MD Dec 15 2015 10:49 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

Leroy Stanton.

batmagadanleadoff Dec 15 2015 10:58 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

Still unsolved. I just looked up Stanton's stats. He hit 27 HR's for the first year Mariners. I don't remember that.

batmagadanleadoff Dec 15 2015 10:59 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

Not much of a hint but Vida and the mystery Met are the only players from their high school to ever be drafted by a major league baseball team, let alone play in the bigs.

batmagadanleadoff Dec 15 2015 11:27 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

Jesse Hudson, he of the major league career that consisted of one inning pitched is the Met we were looking for. [fimg=444]http://paulsrandomstuff.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/jesse-hudson-1991.jpg?w=560[/fimg] Instead of plastering this post with Vida Blue pics you all already saw, I'll just post my favorite Vida mag cover, a Time Mag illustrated by bona fide Mad Man (Men) and top commercial artist of his generation, Bob Peak, and invite you all to venture down the internet rabbit hole to learn more about Mr. Peak. Thank you for playing. [fimg=555]http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1971/1101710823_400.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=333]https://simotron.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/apocalypse_now_united_artists_1979_bob_peak_art.jpg[/fimg]

Zvon Dec 16 2015 02:03 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content. Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Dec 16 2015 02:57 PM

If you gave us til spring training I think we would have gotten this. I'm a big fan of Peaks work although I never knew who the artist was. His work was very distinctive. [fimg=500:2b2zbi8u]http://40.media.tumblr.com/5232b65965ecde1fa538dadfa8d64dd3/tumblr_mth4wq3JtA1so5ik5o1_1280.jpg[/fimg:2b2zbi8u]

d'Kong76 Dec 16 2015 02:33 PM Re: Quicke Quiz -- Vida Blue content.

Joe Moock would have been my cheating guess with the Louisana connection thing.