Former Kintetsu 1st Baseman Jim Traber Featured on ESPN
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Re: Former Kintetsu 1st Baseman Jim Traber Featured on ESPN
[ Author: mijow | Posted: Jun 7, 2007 9:19 AM
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I wonder if he's crossed paths with Randy Bass, who of course is a state senator in Oklohama.
Re: Former Kintetsu 1st Baseman Jim Traber Featured on ESPN
[ Author: Guest: Kenny | Posted: Jun 8, 2007 4:56 AM
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Mr. Westbaystars, I'm sorry about the false hype. This is the real "feature" on Jim Traber. It's part two of ESPN's segment on sports talk radio, and this feature is all about Traber's radio talk show.
BTW, I have a friend in Oklahoma who knows Traber personally, and he told me that Traber had a tape of the bench-clearing brawl that he instigated in Japan and showed it to my friend and his friends. My friend said that they all had a good laugh when they watched the tape.
BTW, I have a friend in Oklahoma who knows Traber personally, and he told me that Traber had a tape of the bench-clearing brawl that he instigated in Japan and showed it to my friend and his friends. My friend said that they all had a good laugh when they watched the tape.
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Before working in sports talk radio business, Traber worked for the Arizona Diamondbacks in the early 2000s as a TV and radio color commentator.
For the younger generation who are unfamiliar with Jim Traber, he's famous in Japan for a comical bench clearing brawl he instigated in, I believe, 1991 where he fell down and got kicked in the head by the legendary pitcher/manager Masaichi Kaneda of the Lotte Orions. You can see a clip of that here.
[By Editor: I don't know if that was long enough to call it a "feature," but it was interesting.]