Excellent video! I like your style. I know it's a different subject, but Show had similar trauma like Marvin Gaye. Immensely talented professionals who had abusive fathers and longsuffering, God fearing mothers. Both had a fear of the LORD, were drug addicts, undependable, unpredictable, having a fear of failure, were talented musicians, and had strikingly beautiful women who left them. They could never get over the abuse from their childhood, I remember in Marvin Gaye's book, he told his mom, "I wish father would just throw his arms around me and told me he loved me.". And then, this excerpt from the exceptional ESPN article by Tom Friend: "I think he did make peace with his dad," Cara Mia says. "But when I asked him about that, Eric still looked sad. He probably wanted his dad to grab him around the shoulders and hug him and say, 'Eric, I'm so sorry I hurt you and abused you growing up. But I want you to know I love you and please forgive me for how I've hurt you.' He probably wanted some acceptance from his father. Because that's why Eric was always running. Running from the hurt. Running right to the amphetamines." The big difference is that Marvin provoked his father to shoot and kill him to get him out of his drug fueled paranoia; Eric didn't have a chance but died anyway heartbroken over his father, who never had a chance to reconcile because he was out of his mind. I believe many of these athletes and entertainers are heavily under mind control, and ritual abuse is what makes them famous...and what kills them.

I like this sort of coverage for a complicated figure

This is really, REALLY good. New sub here

I remember the '84 Padres team. Great pitching staff plus Tony Gwynn!

You outdid yourself with this one.Some individuals are just natural story tellers and just have that voice that comes across so effortless.You certainly fit this category.I feel you would make a great play by play anouncer.I enjoy your channel and could listen to you all day long.Btw Dad is doing about the same every day is a challenge but I am blessed to still have him and be able to care for him.Ihave a good friend of mine who was a ex minor league player in the 80's for the orioles system.He was a pitcher and suffered a arm injury wich ended his career.He know instructs grade school and high school pitcher as a career.I have turned him on to your channel and feel you would like to hear some of the stories he has to tell about his time.Trust me he has some pretty cool information to share.He played and trained with a lot of famous big league players in his playing days.He has a very laid back demeanor very similar to yours.I just feel you would enjoy talking to him.when I get time I will put my thinking cap on in try to suggest some material for you to cover.take that for what it is lol.thanks again.

Eric show member of the infamous John Birch Society Beaned Andre Dawson Gave up Pete Roses Record breaking hit All time Padres win leader Passed way to young Your page is really good

Great content as usual. I ran into Dave Dravecky in O'Hare airport in Chicago. He is hands down, one of the nicest human beings I have ever come in contact with. Could not have possibly been more cordial or pleasant. The whole John Birch thing really illustrates how humans are complicated and how good people can believe in some whacked out shit. Keep up the great work, man. Hope your channel blows up.

Quickly becoming a big fan. Very even-handed in terms of dealing with some sensitive subjects, you avoid the maddening generalizations of complex human beings.

Eric Show was the Neil Peart of MLB

I met Dave Dravecky when I was 12 or 13 at a gymnasium where he gave a motivational speech.

Great narration! Very calming and to the point voice.

New subscriber here - great video

I wrote to Show when I was a kid back in the mid 80's and he returned the baseball card i sent him signed!!!

Keep ‘em coming man! I’m really enjoying these pieces!

They have to immediately call him a racist because it is easier than actually debating him.

This was great 👍 Please do more like this⚾️

Show's friend and teammate Alan Wiggins died before Show did. He, too, had a drug addiction and died of AIDS in 1991...

This is a brilliant piece. 30/30 level.

Very nicely made video. Thank you!!!

Another great video!

This was really well done!

Thank you. Well done

What a sad story. Great video, I really enjoy your work!!

I remember Show's name and I'm sure I saw him pitch on TV a time or two, but I never knew his backstory. We never know what twists and turns our lives will take, do we? Excellent post, my friend. And I believe you handled the controversial parts very well!

Excellent presentation. Really enjoyed it.

I have to admit that I had no idea that Eric Show had such an interesting,complex and ultimately a tragic ending. You covered this very well as is the case with your previous videos. I’m a long time student of baseball history and I definitely look forward to your future stories.

Really happy to see the channel growing man! And also, how about them O’s?!

Alan Wiggins story is also a heartbreaker. Maybe you should upload it.

You obviously do lots of research to put these stories together. Very interesting + informative!

your content is so good amigo

Hatbilly u are a great baseball talker.

A sad story. Reminds me of Little League dads who put way too much pressure on their sons to excel instead of letting them play for love of the game. Makes me wonder how his life would have been different had his father been less demanding.

Your channel is one of the channels I look forward to something new on it.

Brilliant! THanks! (i realy love your accent)

The 84 Padres had no chance against the mighty 84 Tigers. Who were one of the best clubs in MLB history.

Eric Show lookin’ like a young Frank Zappa!

Great video.

Yeah i remember him. We dispatched him pretty quickly in the 84 series. Detroit Tigers baby

“Sports -are- used to be a fantastic distraction from politics and current events.” Fixed it for you…

Alan Wiggins is an other fascinating story. He was unloaded to Baltimore later died of HIV. His daughter was a WNBA player

Great video of an interesting baseball story

Good Overview Of objectivism!

Wow. Did not know all this.

Kudos on the 'Kevin from the Office" line......LMFAO

I vividly remember watching Andre get beaned. I was 9 and watched almost every Braves and Cubs game that summer, here in East Tenn, those were the two channels that aired baseball. I was a massive Braves fan. The Cubs are my second team. I still remember Harry Carey pronouncing Show’s last name

Man this was a sad one, but an interesting one. I like the music.

The pitch to Dawson was inside, but it wasn’t that high. Dawson dove down into the ball when he hit. Heck, Pujols hit a homer on a ball not much lower than that. Show’s immediate reaction when the ball hit Dawson was one of horror. That would be unusual if he was throwing at Dawson. The idea that it was racially motivated also makes little sense. At that point he had faced hundreds if not thousands of black players at the plate. Had already faced several that day. Why would he randomly decide at that moment to unleash his racial animus? Also, pitchers who throw at guys don’t tend to write apology notes.

How about Rod Beck? Shooter was a funky dude with a number of stories to be found including his time in the minors early and late in his career. “Rod Beck RV” in a google search pulls up adventures in home of Des Moines, Iowa hoping to restart his major league career.

That pitch to Dawson wasn't a beanball pitch. It was an inside pitch and didn't even look like a dirty pitch.

Can you make one of these for Darrel Porter? Similar story....I miss these guys.

Rod scurry story is also sad and would be an interesting cover

No way to know if he his Dawson on purpose. Dawson was having a great year, hitting a lot of home runs. Eric was probably trying to make Dawson uncomfortable and get him off the plate, like a good pitcher would back in that era and the way to do that is to throw one high and tight. The pitch could have easily gotten away from him.

Keep up the great work but small request. You think you could do a real old timer once in awhile? A player from the 60s or earlier? A lot of kids from the 50s and 60s are retiring and got nothing to do but watch KZfaq. You might increase your audience by throwing in an OLD timer just once in awhile. I am not aware of any baseball or sports channel covering anything before 1970 except the mega legends. Great job, Brother.

Eric also gave up one of Raphael Belliard’s of the Braves only 2 career home runs.

Decent pitcher w the padres

All I knew about Eric Show was the flack for sitting on the mound during Pete Rose's 4192 celebration, and the John Birch Society. You show a more complete portrait of an intelligent man with too much paranoia for his own good. It's a true American tragedy. As we approach election day, and the fear of facism here is so real, it's mind-boggling how hate-filled racist conspiracies can blind people. Bless us all for a better, saner day. This video is great.

As a baseball card collector every 1980s pack i opened seemed to have an Eric Show. Such an interesting guy. Great video and great job not getting to political or picking one side. This was very informative and entertaining. You're a true fan of the game!

Damn he was Barry zito before Barry zito

Sad story

As a clarification-Ayn Rand and her philosophy Objectivism are most certainly NOT racist. She and her philosophy abhorred racism. Her philosophy stood for Reality, Reason, Egoism, Capitalism and art that honored man.

Thank you for pointing out politics does not belong in sports. You are the first channel to say that and keep to it. I rare subscribe. You got one. Also for the great content. I don't know how you find out about these back stories. I've been watching baseball my whole life. I only knew Show as a pretty good pitcher.

This was a noble effort but also naive. If you don't understand what's going on with unchecked immigration and the incessant cry of systemic racism, you're not paying attention. Cultural Marxism is alive and well and it's invaded our institutions, including sports. Show was trying to work things out. He was a man of faith and a pursuer of truth. It's not a straight road out of samsara. BTW, you forgot to mention that Show's musical inspiration was Django Rheinhardt, a Parisian gypsy cafe guitarist who's finger picking style revolutionized guitar playing. Show saw the dark clouds of institutional forces on the horizon. They're here now. In two years he'll be approaching a prophetic status.

8:09 No, not really.

Also sad and odd that the 84 Padres have three players dead (Wiggins, Show, and Gwynn). And it has been that way for a number of years already.

I find that Ayn Rand Christians to be more pseudointellectual then intellectiual.

San Diego was by far the most right wing of any big city through the 90s. Even more than Dallas

WTF is the meaning of Alt + Right aside from whatever you and Hillary C are babbling about

The John Birch is hardly fringe and "alt-right". Ayn Rand was not a racist. Racism is collectivism, which she opposed with every fiber of her being. I'm not a fan of her, but c'mon. Politics may be important to this story, but yours aren't.

cant be that smart believing in fables...

funny, Rands ideas where EVERYTHING Jesus values were not! What a hypocrite.

Once you descried Ayn Randas "controversial" you lost me. You probably voted for Obama/Biden.