NBC Sports Bay Area's Monte Poole reflects on the life of Vida Blue, and the impact the former A's pitcher had on his childhood.
Vida’s “Blue Blazer,” as play-by-play man Monte Moore called his fastball, apparently clocked in the mid-to-upper 90s, with explosive movement. Sometimes it would cut, other times it seemed to rise on approach to the plate. We just knew it was fast.
Others brilliant pitchers have captivated the baseball world for a few years. The Tigers had Mark “The Bird” Fidrych. The Dodgers had Fernando “El Toro” Valenzuela. The Mets had Dwight “Doc” Gooden. The Marlins, years later, had Dontrelle “D-Train” Willis. Such was the Vida Blue phenomenon that not only made the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine and The Sporting News but also the cover of Time magazine.“It's a weird scene,” he once told reporters. “You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.”
Vida’s first two seasons were meager, a total of 18 appearances, 10 starts, with mixed results. He clearly was rushed.
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