Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Repack Haiku #239 (Mark Gubicza)

As fan in the stands
Watched World Series history
Then won with losers
 
1989 Topps #430 Mark Gubicza

 
The Philadelphia native attended Game 6 of the 1980 World Series and watched the Phillies win their first championship against the Kansas City Royals. Five years later, he won a ring with that Royals team.

5 comments:

  1. Two posts in a row I've learned something new about someone I interviewed for my blog.

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  2. There should be more blog posts about the 1980 Phillies.

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  3. How do you dig up these awesome pieces of trivia? Very cool.

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    1. This particular piece of trivia came from Gubicza's profile on the SABR Bio Project: https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/mark-gubicza/

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  4. Never heard of him, but that is an interesting bit of a trivia.

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