25 Years Ago This Week

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https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5558039/2024/06/14/bobby-valentine-orel-hershiser-new-york-mets-disguise/https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5558039/2024/06/14/bobby-valentine-orel-hershiser-new-york-mets-disguise/



Bobby Valentine dons "the mustache".



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Click on the NYT link for video of the incident.

[whippoorwill]

That was great!



The cameras shouldn't have given him away; it might have worked.

I remember laughing with Dad about it

[metirish]

It might well have worked, but Bobby loved the camera too much

[Benjamin Grimm]

Pet peeve: When people say Bobby returned to the dugout "disguised as Groucho Marx". That's pretty far from the truth.

[MFS62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Pet peeve: When people say Bobby returned to the dugout "disguised as Groucho Marx". That's pretty far from the truth.

The magic word was "yerouttahere".



Later

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

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It might well have worked, but Bobby loved the camera too much

[whippoorwill]

I kind of remember too that he did it to diffuse a tense situation.

[G-Fafif]

I was at this game, which was wacky on its "what shows up in the box score" merit, and had no idea about the disguise. Learning about it via highlights was the cherry on top of an exhilarating win.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Same week his coaches were fired and he made the famous "55 games" proclamation

[kcmets]

Image makes me think of the kcmetsdotcom years, before we were

'ordered' to cease and desist by The New York Metropolitan Baseball

Club, Inc. Amazing how much the internet has changed and how just

about every fan who so choses can have a baseball footprint without

get hassled by front office lawyers.

[Edgy MD]

Makes me think of celebrated MOFo poster Bobby in Disguise.