
Effectively Wild Episode 1976: Season Preview Series: Dodgers and Cubs
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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The Shorts and the Shorts in the 1980's
There was some sort of sexist stuff that was said about this as one might imagine in 1976. The second baseman on the socks jack brohammer brohammer wonderful name said i'm not going to wear short pants unless they let me wear a halter top two and goose gossage requested some notice so he could shave his legs remove all the hair before the the shorts were on there. Even Kansas City first baseman john mayberry he said you guys are the sweetest team we've ever seen againSome some taunting and mayberry shouted to Ralph gar if you get over to first base i'm going to give you a big kiss etc etc but this was just sort of like you know the initial
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