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NFT: Obscure NY athletes that you remember - any era/any sport

Sean : 6/28/2015 9:31 am

so many players come and go on the teams we root for. This is just a fun thread to post players you remember from any team you rooted for that may be easily forgotten.

I'll start with Bernard Gilkey. This guy put up huge numbers in 1996, 30 HR and 117 RBIs. He was traded in 98 before the Mets had their 2 year playoff run led by Piazza. Just one of those random players who popped into my head.

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Othella Harrington

Sean : 6/28/2015 9:14 pm : link

Gilles Villemure?

Peter in Atl : 6/28/2015 9:18 pm : link

You mean the guy who won a Vezina and holds the record for the lowest goals against in the all-star game? He wasn't an obscure Ranger. Now, if you said sulky driver at Roosevelt Raceway, I would have given you that.

Toby Knight

Phil in LA : 6/28/2015 9:20 pm : link

was good for awhile and looked like he'd be part of the next "great" Knicks team along with the two Rays and Mike "The Stinger" Glenn. But he wrecked his knee. Sly Williams looked like he was gonna be good, too, but he snorted everthing including the end lines.

Greg Butler

theold5j : 6/28/2015 9:36 pm : link

Knicks

Art Shamsky

SomeFan : 6/28/2015 9:45 pm : link

Eddie Lee Wilkens

Matt M. : 6/29/2015 9:49 am : link

Billy Martin (Knicks)

Wesley Mallard

donnyfootball : 6/29/2015 10:36 am : link

My 12 year old self will never forget the dropped punt that Wesley Mallard picked up and ran for a first down in a regular season game vs. the Vikings. And I have no clue why I remember that.

Dan Pasqua

YAJ2112 : 6/29/2015 11:12 am : link

Jerry Milbourne

Bjorn Nittmo

Nick Fotiu - NY Rangers

KingBlue : 6/29/2015 12:00 pm : link

tough as nails!

Nick Fotiu... "I'm no goon"

KingBlue : 6/29/2015 12:03 pm : link

"I'm no goon. I play hockey. I check. If anybody wants to fight, I'll fight." Nick once said. Not that many people really wanted to fight him. Dave "The Hammer" Schultz, one of hockey's most infamous tough guys, wrote in his book that Fotiu was the only man he was afraid to fight in his NHL career.

Knicks

B in ALB : 6/29/2015 12:08 pm : link

Pat Cummings
Kenny Bannister
Rory Sparrow

Giants
Earnest Gray
Bill Currier
Larry Flowers

Yankees
Jerry Mumphrey
Claudell Washington
Paul Zuvella
Bob Tewksbury

Rangers
Tom Laidlaw
Grant Ledyard
Kelly Miller
Eddie Mio

Here are mine:

PatersonPlank : 6/29/2015 12:11 pm : link

Yankees: Oscar Gamble, Jerry Kenny, Horace Clark
Giants: Carter Campbell, Leon Bright, Ernest Gray

Drrr

YAJ2112 : 6/29/2015 12:29 pm : link

He's so obscure I got his name confused with Jerry Mumphrey

Larry Milbourne

Bluenatic : 6/29/2015 12:34 pm : link

Dan Pasqua, Rick Cerone, Matt Nokes and Ron Hassey from the NYY

Dang Man : 6/29/2015 8:12 pm : link

Alex Karpotsev NYR, Billy Ard NYG, Mike Rosenthal NYG, Chris Morris of the Nets, Bobby Meachem NYY

James Percy Mason

GruningsOnTheHill : 6/29/2015 10:46 pm : link

As a kid during the 1976 WS vs the Reds, I was sitting with my dad way out in right field when Jim Mason hit a HR that rattled under my seat. I can remember seeing myself on the news for a split second when we got home later.

RE: .

donnyfootball : 6/29/2015 10:54 pm : link

In comment 12347746 Bluenatic said:

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Mike Cherry, Danny Kannell and Kent Graham.. What a year.

Dale Berra

Wuphat : 6/29/2015 11:50 pm : link

...

Chico Escuela

manh george : 6/30/2015 1:00 am : link

Big bad Anthony Bonner

Greg from LI : 6/30/2015 10:05 am : link

His position was listed as forward, but it should have read "enforcer".

BTW, since Alexander Karpovtsev was mentioned, some of you who remember him may not know that he was one of the coaches killed in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash.

RE: Art Shamsky

bradshaw44 : 6/30/2015 10:08 am : link

In comment 12347182 SomeFan said:

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Homered his first at bat. Sky was the limit. Ha

I was at a diner

feelflows : 6/30/2015 10:42 am : link

in PA and my buddy said.. and I quote:

"DUDE, our waitress looks like Ron Kittle"

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