BOB HORNER POSTER,ATLANTA BRAVES/TOKYO YAKULT SWALLOWS,東京ヤクルトスワ for sale in Macon, GA

BOB HORNER POSTER,ATLANTA BRAVES/TOKYO YAKULT SWALLOWS,東京ヤクルトスワ - $9,998

∆ THIS IS A VERY RARE 1987 BOB HORNER JAPANESE SUNTORY BEER PROMOTIONAL POSTER. THIS 28.50" TALL X 20.25" WIDE PROMO POSTER IS IN MINT CONDITION AND HAS NEVER BEEN OUT OF THE POSTER TUBE UNTIL NOW FOR THE PHOTOS YOU ARE NOW SEEING.

**** JAMES ROBERT (BOB) HORNER (BORN AUGUST 6, 1957) IS AN AMERICAN FORMER PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PLAYER. HE PLAYED IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AND THE NIPPON PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL LEAGUE AS A THIRD BASEMAN AND A FIRST BASEMAN FROM 1978 TO 1988, MOST PROMINENTLY AS A MEMBER OF THE ATLANTA BRAVES WHERE HE WAS NAMED THE 1978 NATIONAL LEAGUE (NL) ROOKIE OF THE YEAR AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE 1982 NATIONAL LEAGUE ALL-STAR TEAM.
AFTER A RECORD SETTING NCAA COLLEGE ATHLETIC CAREER WITH THE ARIZONA STATE SUN DEVILS BASEBALL TEAM, HORNER BYPASSED THE MINOR LEAGUES AND MOVED DIRECTLY TO THE MAJOR LEAGUES WHERE, TOGETHER WITH DALE MURPHY, HE FORMED A POWER-HITTING TANDEM FOR THE ATLANTA BRAVES TEAMS OF THE EARLY 1980S. KNOWN FOR HIS POWERFUL HITTING, HORNER AVERAGED 35 HOME RUNS AND 109 RUNS BATTED PER HIS 162-GAME AVERAGE AND BECAME THE 11TH PLAYER IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL HISTORY TO HIT FOUR HOME RUNS IN ONE GAME ON JULY 6, 1986.

HORNER BECAME A VICTIM OF THE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL COLLUSION SCANDAL OF 1986-87 AFTER COURTS FOUND THAT MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL OWNERS HAD ILLEGALLY SHARED INFORMATION DURING NEGOTIATIONS SEEKING TO DEFLATE PLAYER SALARIES. HE WAS AMONG HUNDREDS OF PLAYERS AND FORMER PLAYERS WHO WERE AWARDED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN LOST SALARY. HE PLAYED ONE SEASON IN JAPAN FOR THE TOKYO YAKULT SWALLOWS BEFORE RETURNING TO PLAY ONE FINAL SEASON IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL WITH THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS IN 1988. A STRING OF INJURIES PREMATURELY ENDED HORNER'S BASEBALL CAREER AFTER JUST 11 SEASONS. HE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE COLLEGE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AS A MEMBER OF ITS INAUGURAL CLASS ON JULY 4, 2006 AND THE GEORGIA SPORTS HALL OF FAME IN 2022 ****

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