Remembering the life of Rusty Staub
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- MLB Network remembers the late Rusty Staub, whose legendary career as a player was matched by his off the field charitable efforts
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This 54 year old child is shedding tears for a man who in 1974 thought enough of this child to send an autograph picture. R.I.P my hero and all time favorite baseball player.
REST IN PEACE MY FRIEND, I WAS A KID BACK THEN NOW 53 years old
Amazed to attend Mass at the old Redemptorist Church on East 61st St and see Rusty in his humble and prayerful grandeur.. God rest his soul...
@@robertlevine4407Humble and prayerful grandeur? The glazing 😊😅😅
He was a better human being than he was a ball player. And he was a damn good ball player.
He was a damn great player throughout his career: over 2,500 hits, high average, power....
@@raygordonteacheschess55012,716
Ron you’re exactly right so glad that Le Grande Orange was a Met. I met him before a Met game in Philly in 1975 stopped talked to us for a few moments couldn’t have been nicer. A great loss to baseball but an even greater loss as a wonderful man.
One of the most underrated players in baseball history.
RIP Rusty.... He hit a grand slam against the Padres in 1973 at Shea. It was my very first MLB game in person. remember it like yesterday. What a generous and humble man. Raised over $100 million for families of firefighters and first responders. The world needs more men like Rusty Staub.
My first Met home game was also against the Padres in 1973, but they committed four errors in the first two innings and lost, 7-3. Got the free tickets by clipping the cardboard coupons off the Dairy-Lea milk.
Yes. My dad did the same thing with clipping the coupons on the milk cartons.
After Gary Carter, Rusty Staub was the most popular player in Montreal Expos history, that is really a sad today in Montreal for every baseball enthusiast, this guy was a class act and a formidable Baseball player. You will be missed up here.
R.I.P. Rusty Staub
God Bless
I could post this almost verbatim, just changing Expos to Mets, and it would mean all the same. Those 2 men were larger than life, New York and Montreal were lucky enough to have the most time with them.
As a lifelong Dodger fan, I arise to full height at attention and remove my Dodger cap in honor of Le Grande Orange. My God bless him and keep him for all the thrills and integrity that he brought to the game. May he ever be remembered for his charitable work wherever he played. God bless this man!
One hell of a ballplayer, but more importantly, one hell of a man. RIP, and thank you.
From a french kid in Montreal. Rusty Staub... The name we would shout out when pretending to play baseball for the Expos. What an extraordinary presence he had. Standing out naturally, he would tower, or so it seemed to us, over everyone on the field. In my mind, he still does... Merci Rusty. Sleep well man...
DenisLarochellejr well put thank you.....
Instantly became a fan favorite in NYC. All the younger Met fans wanted to play as Rusty Staub...
I loved the way he would choke up on his bat,his raising money for fallen cops and firefighters,and as a Met announcer. RIP Le Grand Orange.
And a world-class chef, too. The world is a lesser place. Rest in peace, Rusty.
He was a fan favorite wherever he played, including here in Detroit.
todd krager i remember legendary rusty staub in detroit he like to use a short bat he was the best hitter on the Detroit tigers
What a smart hitter. With the Tigers he always had a plan at the plate -- ground ball to get the run in, opposite field if they pitched him away, pull it with power when they came inside. All with that choked-up grip and bottle-shaped bat.
One of the most under rated and intelligent players in the history of the sport. I've always admired Rusty. Give me three Rusty Staubs in the lineup with the rest being average, and I'll contend for a Pennant any year.
He and Rod Carew were the best croquet hitters, hitting under, by or just passed the fielder’s glove because they knew which fielder was out of position or knew how to break down the defense.
You’re 💯 percent right, the problem would be finding three Rusty Staubs!
Rusty belongs in the Hall Of Fame!
Athletes like Rusty are desperately needed today.
Rest in Peace. Such a great guy
Rip!!! Astros/colt fans will never forget you
Canada will always love ya Rusty. RIP
I remember him in 70's sliding for catches (and making them) in the outfield. He was fun, tough, generous, full of class, and beloved by all! We will miss you Rusty!
No doubt, Rusty belongs in the Hall of Fame! One of the games purest hitters great all around player who would have easily had well over 3000 hits if he played his last 5 years in the American League as a DH. Although as a Met fan who was at every playoff and World Series game at Shea in 73 I’m glad he finished his career in NY. Rusty carried the 1973 Mets on his back thru the playoffs and the World Series playing with a separated shoulder. What a clutch player!
Rusty Staub is the greatest
A true baseball player. A good player who you could look up to. A great sportsman and rolemodel.
Rusty Staub like many other players spent many losing seasons but deserve to be in the HoF. Players like Frank Tanana, Vada Pinson, and others must be there. Not all are stats.
One day soon hopefully
First New York met to drive in 100 Rbi's in one season. one shy of 500 career doubles, had nearly 50 career triples (47) always gave 100% on and off the field as well. will always be missed from this met fan, very classy guy to say the least.
You don't have to be an Expos fan or a Mets fan to love a guy like Staub. Guys like Staub made baseball fun. You wanted to root for him even if he played for the other team.
What an admirable human being. So sad he's gone, but what a life well-lived. Confession: I didn't know Rusty wasn't his real first name.
My whole family were met fans and all who watch the Mets play admired and respected the man who gave it his all, Rusty Staub!
My favorite Met. His best years were behind him when I started following baseball, but he was a GREAT pinch-hitter. I saw one of his last pinch-hit RBIs in 1985 to tie a game.
When I was a kid learning the game I tried to do everything like Rusty. The way he held his glove against his chest while tracking a fly ball the way he would tap the bat to keep his hands loose at the plate. He was my absolute hero. I still get a kick out of watching his highlights.
Such a beautiful human being. He was a heavenly angel right here on Earth.
My guess would be that he is at least as good as, or is better than, forty percent of the players already in the Hall of Fame.
From a die hard life long Mets fan: THANKS FOR BEING RUSTY AND MAKING MY CHILDHOOD A B IT BRIGHTER
Robert Bermudez I was a kid in Montreal, and Rusty was a giant.
I don't remember the reasons why he was traded so much but he never should have been. He was supremely talented and a clubhouse leader everywhere. Always gave 100 percent even when hurt.
Before Rusty was traded April 5, 1972 for Singleton, Jorgensen & Foli, he was our Expos shining star & best all-around player 1969-70-71. 480 games, 1717 AB, 281 Runs, 508 Hits, 83 Doubles, 18 Triples, 78 HR, 270 RBI, 296 walks vs. 196 Strikeouts .296 Average .404 On base pct. .502 Slugging. Playing with heart & soul for an expansion team in a sub-grade park, with exuberant fans who loved the game. ''Le Grand Orange'' learned French to integrate, became Canada's baseball ambassador. Still among the top 5 revered Pro atheletes to play for a Montreal team with Maurice Richard, Jean Beliveau, Guy Lafleur and Vladimir Guerrero Sr. Astros Expos Mets and Tigers fans can unite in honoring this great man today, 5 years after his passing.
In 1963, I was 16 and attended an exhibition game between the newly formed Los Angeles Angles and the Houston Colt 45's in my hometown of Porterville, California. The memory that I remember the most is the long home run that Rusty Staub hit that day over the right field wall, I thought that it might actually land in L.A. 150 miles to the south. Thanks Rusty for that Great memory!
He played during an era in baseball when fans, no matter what their favorite team was, could cheer for a player on another team just because who he was on and off the field
Tony Gwynn, Jim Rice, Robin Yount, Harmon Killebrew etc.
So long Rusty, and thank you. We wanted to root for you because of who you were as much as for what you did on the field. You will be missed.
He played the game the right way, and for that deserves HOF consideration
Rusty Staub and the wonderful life he truly lived proved that God exists and that Goodness is Very Real.
I was at Rusty Staub day in 1986. Good memory!
So sad to hear. Rusty was a great competitor saw him play many times against the Reds. We certainly liked him in Cincinnati.
Best ever Met...We should have his portrait at City Field.
IT IS MORE CORRECTLY CITI FIELD AND YOU MUST NOT HAVE WALKED AROUND TO SEE THE LARGE IMAGE OF HIM INSIDE.
500 hits with four different teams : LEGEND
L'Grande Orange. New Orleans legend
Great trivia. He is the only player in MLB history to accomplish that.
I used to imitate his whole batting routine when he came to the plate when I was a kid.
Please enshrine this man in Cooperstown. Helluva player and person. Can't say that about everyone in the HOF.
A great player and a great man
One of my favorite players of all time…🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
My hero, my baseball idol and always a gentleman! You're greatly missed, Le Grande Orange.
Great player,greater man.
The best left handed hitter, against left handed pitchers, I ever saw.
Miss you Mr.staub...
I got his autograph in cincinnati when the mets rolled into town my seats who i bought off a ticket hussler had me right there at the end of the dugout at riverfront. A veey nice guy i just found out he died with this video God Bless your soul rusty and thanks for the memories. When i watched u at that time you were winding down and i thought he looks like a old fat guy who looks like it hurrs to walk but for one is for certain he could flat out rake!! That man coukd get a base hit in his sleep!! R.I.P.
I grew up in the 70s in N.Y. and i remember talking about rusty ome of us even drew a number 4 on ower t-shirts isn't baseball great .even better when we got to see the man on t.v. or at shea what a thrill.RIP
Breaks my Heart R.I.P Rusty!!
Grew up a Yankee fan in NY, but always thought he was a class act. I met him at his restaurant in 1992 and he stopped by our table and couldn’t have been a nicer guy.
Beautiful, well done MLB RIP
RIP le grande orange
One of my favorite players of all time being a big Mets fan. I remember when Rusty crashed into the wall in the World Series in 73 and still played with half a shoulder. RIP # 4 and #10
I met Rusty at my first Mets game when I was 6. He was a commentator at the time. My dad and a group of Mets fans chased after him and Rusty was running back to his car. It was more of a trot because this was in the 90s. My dad was at the front of the pack and I was trying to keep up and Rusty kept saying "I'm sorry, I gotta go." My dad then said "It's his first Mets game". Rusty said "really" and stopped jogging and stopped to sign my autograph before getting in his car.
My favorite Met
I remember watching Rusty Staub on TV while playing for the amazing Mets in the 80's and though of him as a baseball gentleman because of the way he hit the baseball. He never looked for hr's or 2b's...he just wanted to get it in play and help the team win!!! If I would had the chance of meeting Reggie Jackson or Rusty Staub back then...I would would go for Rusty 1000x!!!! RIP Mr. Stub!!!
An original 1969 Expo and the teams first All-Star. RIP #LeGrandeOrange
Always a very good consistent player but he should have stayed a dh from 1981-1983 so he would have gotten his 3000th hit & a guaranteed trip to Cooperstown in the early 1990's where he belonged. He was that good. Too bad he passed. Good player & a good man as well.
I bet he was proud of the Astros for Winning the World Series. Before his passing
Did he know about the banging trash cans???
please bring back our Expos!
Devan Hopefully soon. Good Luck.
Rest In Peace , rusty !
jesusisnotallright, show some respect , douche bag !
Nice video. Rusty has to be the best journeyman MLB of all time. 500 hits for 4 different teams. Never got to see him play. RIP Rusty.
jesusisnotallright s Jesus is Lord and Saviour, He died for you. John 3:16
Rest in peace Rusty you will always be one of my favorite Detroit Tigers Forever
I was watching video's on Rusty the before he past...1 of my all time tiger player's & ball player
Rest Easy on this Opening Day, Le Grande Orange.
Class act! loved Rusty.
Great hitter.
Really great tribute video. We lived in OKC decades ago, OKC was the farm team for the Colt 45’s/Astros. Rusty was in OKC numerous times over the years, so often he became a favorite. I think we gave him a standing ovation a few times. Just in appreciation.
He was the 1970s-early 1980s Mets personified.
Rusty Staub was a great person on the field and off... Not mentioned in the video he was also a chef who had his own restaurant.
He was one whale of a hitter. Smart, a guy who hit according to the situation.
Rusty Staub is being robbed from the Hall of Fame. Everyone says his numbers are just not there. If they had the DH rule in the National League, he'd be in. Until 1982, he's been on pace for over 3000 hits, over 300 home runs, and over 1500-maybe 1600 RBIs. Management reduced his role as a pinch batter. And even as great as he was in that role, his hitting talent never dimished, but still he gets snubbed from the Hall. So unfair.
Very underrated player. Check his lifetime statistics. He was was very good.
A little Rusty Staub trivia: Colt 45 pitcher Hal Woodeshick wrote that his pitching career was saved by Rusty. In spring training in 1963, the 19 year old rookie showed the 30 year old veteran Woodeshick how to throw a slider. That year Woody had a 1.97 ERA, selection to the All Star game, and was the team's MVP.
Even at the end of his career, he was pinch hitter deluxe.
Wow! What a great person!
Man turned down going to an AL club to be a DH so that he could stay in New York for his charity. It cost him the 3000 hits and 300 homers and most likely the Hall of Fame. But…it got him what he wanted. OVER 100 MILLION DOLLARS raised for the families of NYC cops and firefighters killed in the line of duty. That’s a f@cking real man. A LIFE hall of famer who understood that his charities were more important than the child’s game he played for a living.
RIP Rusty one of the worse trades Houston even made and in the early days they made plenty
@Wild74, Not only in the early years. The Astros have traded away a bunch of talent that did better elsewhere. 😩
Well done story!
He looked his best in an Expos uniform.
He should be in the Hall of Fame. Many members have less hits and rbis
Why is he not in hall of fame ?
I ate at his rib joint at 73rd and Third all the time (the sodas were a ripoff but the ribs were great). Brooke Shields won the 1981 rib-eating contest there with thirty ribs.
That's awesome. Brooke Shields? This is why I read the comments.
Rusty should have gone for those 3,000 hits he was only like 280 hits away had he the Aged for two seasons with an American League team specifically the Toronto Blue Jays he would have gotten those 3,000 hits and he would have been in the Baseball Hall of Fame
Rusty belongs in the HOF, wearing a Met cap!
And it's the start of the season too.
Rusty Staub
i remember when he played FOR MONTRÈAL EXPOS HE WAS MAGNIFIQUE
RIP
Rusty is in Heaven.
But I get the feeling the 23 years he spent in MLB and all the years with his restaurants
were Heaven On Earth for Le Grande Orange.
Rusty belongs in the HOF.
You learn about baseball as a business when you're 10 years old and your favorite player (him & Ron Hunt) from your favorite team gets traded to the team you hate the most. I mean when he got traded from the Expos to the Mets. My brother (a Mets fan) told me he heard it on the radio and I thought he was making it up. I could have believed him getting traded, but to the Mets of all teams? The Expos did get good players back (especially Ken Singleton), but still, trade Rusty Staub?
At 3:25 where you see him crash into the fence, that was in the playoffs vs. Cincinnati in 1973. That's where he hurt his shoulder and he couldn't throw all through the World Series. He missed the first game. He could still hit and field, but could only lob the ball back, which hurt the Mets, but what could they do? They needed his bat. Staub is usually thought of as a great hitter, but when he was young, he was a very good outfielder and could go and get the ball.
Rusty said that he actually cried when he was traded. He loved Montreal and the Expos so much.
Rediculous that this guy is not in the HOF. Never understood why the Astroes traded him? Wiki states "he did not get along with Harry Walker". Can anyone expand on that?
Can't believe I've never heard of this guy until now.
Orange grande.
I remember Rusty, I didn’t realize how prolific he was.
He may have been the last guy in MLB who choked up on a bat like that. Some saying HOF. Idk He played 23 years, half of them Fame worthy. He's borderline.