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Name: Steve Osborne
Home Town: Hendersonville, TN
Age: 48
Birthday: March 24th
Occupation: Assistant Parks Director, Hendersonville Parks Dept.
Family: Married, with one son.
Hobbies: Sports, recreational play and watching. Competitive playing days are all but over after 2 surgeries on neck in past 6 years. I am enjoying coaching my son as he starts his career. I enjoy my rock and roll, and my funk. Saw P-Funk 7 times, went to Berlin to see Roger Waters perform The Wall in 1990. Leisure and home entertainment … science fiction, the comedy of Monty Python and Richard Pryor, the music of Roger Waters and Stevie Nicks.
Favorite teams: Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds
Fantasy baseball experience: APBA and STRAT, L&L Sports, Big Apple Sports, ESPN. Created his own fantasy sports business in 1989, Die-Hard Sports. Lost his business after baseball strike of ’94 (hence his hatred of all things Selig and Glavine.) Interest in DMB began with an entry in an ESPN Classic league. Currently competing in BDBL, and retro leagues Seasons Past Baseball (1986) and Total Baseball Association (1970).
Brush with fame: "Met and spoke briefly with George Foreman about 6 fights into his comeback; Martha Davis of the Motels sat on my shoulders briefly during a CARS concert in 1980; I played in a 30+ baseball league in Florida in early 90s against former players Dave Campbell (reliever with Atlanta), Steve Swisher and Roy Smalley Jr. (went 8+ innings in a start against Campbell, losing 1-0 in the 9th); I am the son of bluegrass legend Sonny Osborne (see Osborne Brothers and “Rocky Top”); I played high school baseball against Tom Bolton; I am good friends with a fellow who punched Bolton in the nose during a game the year after I graduated; my family vacation 2001 placed us exactly 5 blocks from WTC the morning of 9/11/01; I owe Lorrie Morgan $150; I met Jamie Summers (not the bionic woman, the porn star); I very nearly took a swing at Marty Stuart backstage at the Grand Ole Opry when I was 16; I took a leak in a urinal beside Hank Williams Jr. backstage at the Opry while he sang 'Amazing Grace'."
Favorite spring training moments: "Living in Orlando for 7 years, I spent most of March attending spring training games at as many different locations as I could. Here are my top 5 memories …. {5} Greg Jefferies telling me to have sex with myself after I suggested that his prior season destroyed my fantasy team; {4} Juan Agosto trying to convince security to throw myself and a friend out of the stadium, just for shouting “Juan Disgusto”, {3} sharing Pedro Borbon (sr) stories with Pedro Borbon (jr), {2} standing in line for 2 hours in the cold and rain for tickets to see the might Yankees and my favorite player at the time Jack Clark, watching him hit a ball in BP so hard I thought it was going through the left field wall, then following that with a 500 foot moon shot, then taking 3 straight strikes in the top of the 1st and getting ejected, most likely to get in out of the cold; {1} a friend and myself, well inebriated, taunted a highly-regarded and underachieving ChiSox prospect for an entire afternoon, especially after each of his 3 strikeouts, and when he homered off the scoreboard in the 9th he deliberately took a very wide round of 3rd base, pointed us out, put his thumbs in his ears and stuck his tongue out at us. Of course a couple years later he became a Cub, and he’s now called Sammy Sosa."
Quote: “To get along with me, don’t increase my tension” – Tyrus Raymond Cobb.
BDBL member since: 5/4/02