I remember that play as if it were yesterday. Something was wrong with our color TV, so I got out the old portable black and white for the All Star game.
Yeah, Parker had his bouts with drugs and injuries. But the Pirates fans did him absolutely no favors. They would take the batteries out of their radios and throw them at Dave. I was at a game where a smoke bomb landed somewhere between Omar Moreno and Parker
I was looking up stats the other day and forgot just how productive he was for Oakland during their late 80s World Series run.