Just a Classic Name For Degens

With the help of my roommate Dick, who were discussing classic names in the 1980's and 1990's for baseball. He won the game when the best I could come up with was Terry Steinbach on the Twins not with his better days of the Athletics and he threw the name Candy Maldonado at me. I screamed with a call like that.
Maldonado from Puerto Rico was best know for hitting homers with a low batting average. Just think of a Puerto Rican Dave Kingman. The Candy Man played 15 seasons for the Dodgers, Giants, Indians, Brewers, Blue Jays (twice), Cubs, and finished with the Rangers. He made it to the postseason eight times and even won a World Series with the Jays in 1992. San Francisco fans aren't to happy with him (no it isn't because he didn't lick lolly pops) but rather because he dropped a can of corn in the 1987 National League Championship Series versus the Cardinals. The ex-Kansas City Royals Manager Tony Pena 2nd inning pop should have been a easy catch for Maldonado but instead he dropped it and it turned into a triple. Pena later scored on a sacrifice fly, which turned out to be the only run of the game. He is now a broadcaster for ESPN Deport es baseball games.

Steinbach



The Candy Man