Hubie Brooks Recalls the Funniest Moments on the Field During His Career

Hubert "Hubie" Brooks played right fielder, third base, and shortstop in fifteen MLB seasons from 1980 to 1994 for the New York Mets, Montreal Expos, Los Angeles Dodgers, California Angels, and Kansas City Royals. Brooks was selected third overall in the 1978 Major League Baseball draft, and was twice named an All-Star. MLB pitcher Donnie Moore was Brooks' cousin.

Originally, Brooks was drafted by the Montreal Expos as a senior at Manuel Dominguez High School in the 1974 Draft but chose instead to attend Whittier College and stayed for 1975 through 1976 before transferring to Arizona State University. With the Arizona State Sun Devils, Brooks appeared in two NCAA College World Series, winning in 1977. The ASU shortstop was drafted fifth overall in the January 1976 secondary draft by the Kansas City Royals, fourteenth overall in the June 1976 secondary draft by the Chicago White Sox, second overall in the January 1977 secondary draft by the Oakland Athletics, and again by the White Sox third overall in the June 1977 secondary draft; however, he did not sign with any team. After he played out his college career, he was drafted by the Mets third overall in the 1978 amateur draft, two selections behind ASU teammate Bob Horner.

Episode Transcript

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Here's another radio baseball cards. MontrealExpo shortstop Hube Brooks could create a very
funny blooper film from his own blunders. He'll share a couple of them right
after this. Hube Brooks has seensome funny things in baseball, and most

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of them have happened to him.A base hit to left field, I'm
going all the way out from homeplate to third base on a triple.
I'm gonna turn it into a triple. And I take a head first slide.
But I don't slide. I juststop and I stick. I turn
a flip head over hill and Iland right on top of the third base

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and I'm safe. The hat wasfunny. We still talk about laugh about
that to day. It was funny. Favorite minor league story I think would
be swinging a miss, the ballgets by to catch him. I go
to first, he picks the ballup those the first it's a bougust by
the first baseman. So I gofrom first to third. So they're throwing

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the ball in and the guy cutoff man misses the ball and it goes
back behind the catch and I scored. I thought that was so funny because
I struck out, but I endedup scoring the same ball. At thirteen,
Hubey Brooks became partially paralyzed on hisleft side after getting shot by some
kids who were playing with guns.Doctors tooling that he would never play baseball

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again, but he was determined toprove them wrong, which he has in
a big, big way with radiobaseball cards. I'm Don Drysdale.