Originally Posted by pan6467

I truly yearn for baseball's golden era when you knew Ted Williams was a Bosock, Stan "The Man" Musial would be wearing his Cards uni., Bob Lemon and Bob Feller made Cleveland pitching the envy of baseball, Sandy Koufax was a true Blue Dodger, Ernie Banks was "Mr. Cub".

Even in the 80's when players like Andre Thornton, George Brett, Ozzie Smith, and so on, could have gone elsewhere for bigger money, but they chose to stay and sign "lifetime contracts" with the team and became integral parts of the city.

You just don't see that anymore and quite frankly, it's destroying baseball, to the point as I said a lifelong lover and student of the sport has become very disillusioned with MLB.

I guess players greed is just a mirror to society's now. It's a shame we may never see Kirby Pucketts, Robin Younts, Alan Trammells, and so on that spent careers on a single team because they knew what they meant to the city and the team.