Dave Parker, Pittsburgh Pirates Legend and MLB All-Star, dies at 74

According to a press release from Major League Baseball, Parker’s career numbers are solid; He put together 2,712 hits during his career, hit .290 while hit 339 home runs and produced 1,493 runs in 19 seasons of 1973-1991. He also won two World Series, a decade apart, and was an important part of the Willie “Pops” Stargell Led “We Are Family” version of the Pittsburgh Pirates, perhaps their most successful incarnation.

“Dave Parker was a gifted all-round player whose many achievements have led to his upcoming induction in Cooperstown this summer,” said MLB commissioner Rob Manfred in the press release. “He was a World Series champion with the 1979 Pirates and the 1989 Athletics, a beloved All-Star Red in his hometown Cincinnati, and an All-Star in Milwaukee. Dave was also a triple gold glover on the power of his famous arm, always a double batting champion championship champion championship champion, for the Winnaar for the Winner Batting Championship champions. Especially since his name soon becomes an official member of the legends of our national pastime.

Although Parker was given the non -enviable task of replacing Clemente, a man whose legend is near Jackie Roosevelt Robinson in terms of his impact of the field, he has done an admirable work, and as Omar Moreno, a teammate of Pittsburgh, said, he said he said Athletics” He was at least comparable to the game of ClementeNot an easy performance.

“He reminded me of Clemente,” Moreno said the outlet.

Parker, a brash, self -assured player, was often compared to Muhammad Ali for his quotes that are sometimes given in couplet form, such as “When the leaves turn brown, I will wear the batting crown”, Parker also bears the distinction to be the first player to wear a salary of $ 1 million, and was now one professional, and was now one professional.

According to AthleticsParker also recognized the drug test of 1985 and claimed that he was part of a cocaination that was active in the clubhouse in Three Rivers Stadium, the former house of the Pirates franchise. The process said that Parker was a “regular user” of the medicine, and he and other players who had been overtaken in the scandal received a suspension of a year from the MLB that was later converted into fines.

“I am pretty satisfied with my career,” Parker said in 2019. “I made a mistake, what the test of 1985 (drugs) was. That is the only figure against me. But even with that I played hard and at a high level below all that pressure.”

That was considered a small against Parker, in which many in the baseball world believed that it had prevented him from getting the call to get Cooperstown of the Baseball Writers Association of America, whose mood he spent the maximum of 15 years before he was received to the modern baseball era to be besides.

“We join the baseball family in the remembering of Dave Parker,” said Hall of Fame chairman of the Jane Forbes Clark board in a press release. “His legacy will be one of the courage and leadership, only matched by his excellent performance on the field. His election on the Hall of Fame in December brought him a lot of joy for him, his family and all fans who have surprised his remarkable skills. We will honor his unbelievable life and career at the induction cerony of next month in the induction cerony in the induction cerony in the induction cerony in the induction cerony Induction ceremony, where its legacy will be remembered forever. “

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