Heaven knows that he wasn't the most talented player around, but Oscar Azocar won my affection because he played ball the way I would have. In other words, he swung at everything. There's a story, probably apocryphal, that while playing in his native Venezuela, he once swung at a pitch meant to deliver an intentional walk -- and he got a hit, too.
So while there's a special place in my heart for the 1980s Yankees, that overpaid, underachieving and generally forgettable bunch, my aorta is reserved for Oscar.
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Posted May 20, 2002.
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