Greg Brock on Remembers His Final High School Game as His Greatest

Gregory Allen Brock played first base for his entire 10 year MLB career, splitting his time evenly between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers.

In 1013 games over 10 major league seasons, Brock posted a .248 batting average (794-for-3202) with 420 runs, 141 doubles, 6 triples, 110 home runs, 462 RBI, 41 stolen bases, 434 bases on balls, .338 on-base percentage and .399 slugging percentage. Defensively, he recorded a .994 fielding percentage as a first baseman. In the 1983 and 1985 National League Championship Series, he hit only .048 (1-for-21) with 3 runs, 1 home run, 2 RBI and 2 walks in 8 games.

Brock was born in McMinnville, Oregon, the son of Joe Brock, who coached baseball at Stayton High School. Greg played for his father at the high school, and in 1995 had his jersey retired at the school. Brock attended the University of Wyoming.

Episode Transcript

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Here's another radio baseball card. MilwaukeeBrewers first baseman Greg Brock remembers his last
game in high school as one ofhis greatest. He'll tell us why.
Right after this, Greg Brocks startedplaying organized baseball when he was only five

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years old. That's because his fatherwas the coach. His dad also coached
him all the way through high schoolthrough that entire time. But one game
that stands out was the last one. I pitched in a championship game and
pitched a two hitter in the championshipgame and hit a home run. So
you know that that probably stands outas my biggest moment. Up to high

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school, I was a pitcher,but in high school I was able to
throw a curveball and a change up, and I think that's why I was
successful. As soon as I gotto college ball and tried to pitch one
time there, I knew I couldn'tdo anything pitcher. I think when you
go when you go through the lockerroom right now, you probably got ninety
percent of the people in there intheir high school career were pitchers because a
lot of times the better athletes werepitchers. And then you know the days

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they didn't pitch, then they'd goto their position. They were usually the
best hitters. Awesome. Greg Brockgrew up in Oregon, where he excelled
in all sports, including football andbasketball. He later received a scholarship to
play baseball for the University of Wyoming. Another thrill in Briggs athletic wife has
been a hole in one that earnedhim the free use of a car for
a year with radio baseball cards,I'm Don Drysdale.