Literary birthday greetings: Hit Dog

December 15, 2010 · 1 comment

Mo Vaughn turns 43 today. I never saw a hitter get so bad so quick. He was a slugger for the Red Sox from 1991-98, winning the AL MVP in ’95 and had two more great years with the Angels before falling through a trap door with the Mets and calling it a career.

For some reason, he was popular with the younger reading set. Titles include Mo Vaughn: Angel on a Mission; A Day in the Life of a Baseball Player: Mo Vaughn; and At the Plate with…Mo Vaughn, by prolific kids’ sports author Matt Christopher. (People say that was part of the problem — that Vaughn was at the “plate” too much. Heh.)

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1 Mshermanesq December 15, 2010 at 11:21 pm

He started as Willie McCovey and finished as Rob Deer. There were others who fell apart quickly, Joe Charboneau and Tom Tresh come to mind.

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