Pearlman’s Dave Fleming profile
DMZ · June 18, 2008 at 5:30 pm · Filed Under Mariners
I saw Seth point out a nice ESPN piece on Dave Fleming done by Jeff Pearlman. I’m a huge fan, if you remember my 2006 “Rise and Fall of Dave Fleming” piece, and I really enjoyed reading it.
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That was a pretty amazing article. There aren’t very many players like Mr. Fleming anymore. I wish I could have seen those things. But I was only a year old when Ken Griffey Jr. made his major league debut. The things I missed.
Great article and a little bit of cheer in the midst of this Mariner season. Thanks.
Dave Fleming is what role model is supposed to mean. And the only real justification for college athletics is to produce Dave Flemings.
I almost always enjoy Pearlman’s work. This was another really good one.
That was a nice piece, and an interesting bit of history for me. I completely missed those early-90s teams, as those were the years I was away at school. It’s nice to hear about players like Fleming, whose stints with the M’s I never saw.
Thankfully, I came back to Seattle for good in June of 1995!
You can thank Bill Plummer for ruining Fleming. Fleming pitched too many innings and threw too many pitches as a rookie. I liken Fleming to a left handed Mike Boddicker myself (most try and compare him to Moyer). Fleming and Boddicker both threw the big curve and lived by changing speeds. Fleming was a breath of fresh air for the M’s when they were stuck in the doldrums of mediocrity. I wish him well in his life and new career.