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In Craig’s office, as Leonard recently recounted to Sporting News, he made his case.

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Craig looked at Leonard and said what he had to say. Then he let Leonard go tell Aldrete he wouldn’t be in the starting lineup.

And so began one of the great losing efforts in MLB postseason history. His performance enraged Cardinals fans, it nearly carried the Giants to victory and nothing like it has uk canada goose outlet been replicated in the MLB playoffs since.

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Canada Goose sale It was the manner canada goose clearance sale in which Leonard hit those home runs, cranking moon shots and then lumbering around the bases deliberately slowly with his left arm straight down at his side as he ran. By the time Leonard gave an interview prior to Game 3, NBC announcer Joe Garagiola Sr. had given cheap Canada Goose a name to Leonard’s home run trot. Canada Goose sale

canada goose clearance “He canada goose black friday sale goes, ‘Flap, flap. One Flap Down. Like an airplane, the flap is down,'” Leonard said. canada goose clearance

Canada Goose Jackets One Flap Down. The phrase had been used locally, with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat writing after Leonard’s Game 1 home run that he “made his Canada Goose Online usual ‘one flap down’ tour of the bases.” But Garagiola might have been the first to give the nickname national exposure. Canada Goose Jackets

Thirty years later, Canada Goose Outlet it’s the nickname for Leonard that lives on, supplanting HacMan, Penitentiary Face and as newspaper columnist Art Spander noted canada Canada Goose Outlet goose uk outlet after Leonard complained Correctional Institute Face.

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buy canada goose jacket cheap Leonard began his trot to first base. Rookie first base coach Jose Morales, uncharacteristically far from the bag to mess with Leonard as a joke, didn’t grab his hand to congratulate him until after he’d rounded first base. Morales caught Leonard’s arm down, and down it stayed as Leonard canada goose rounded the bases. buy canada goose jacket cheap

canada goose The next day, Cubs players Ryne Sandberg and Thad Bosley approached Leonard. Their exchange, Leonard said, went something like this: canada goose

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“Ohhh No, no, no, no, no, no.”

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cheap Canada Goose The 1980s were an era in which players such as Leonard, Pedro Guerrero and Dave Parker ran the bases canadian goose jacket slowly on home run trots, in a sort of competition with one another. cheap Canada Goose

“We already had like a little, I don’t know what you want to call it, game within a game which some of the canada goose uk black friday hitters around the league which nobody knew about we just had fun,” Leonard said. “Who had the slowest trot, blah, blah, blah. You know, Guerrero, Parker, all these guys. It was just a fun thing.”

canada goose coats on sale Leonard didn’t have the slowest trot. He said he buy canada goose jacket came in second twice, with Parker a hard man to beat. Don Robinson, who played with both men, could attest, watching Parker homer off Rod Scurry in 1985 after he’d become a member of the Cincinnati Reds. canada goose coats on sale

canada goose deals “It must have took him two or three or four minutes buy canada goose jacket cheap to get around the bases,” Robinson said. canada goose deals

After that blast against the Cubs in May, Leonard only hit one more home run the remainder of the 1986 season, with injuries limiting him to 89 games and keeping him homerless the final 2 1/2 months he played.

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