Dave Stieb

• Used to slam the rosin bag down whenever someone got an unexpected hit off him, and would occasionally glare at his fielders when they made an error behind him.
• You could tell how well he was doing by how quickly he worked. When he was going well, he was impatient; he couldn't wait to throw another of those unhittable sliders.
• Grabbed his crotch a lot to adjust his jockstrap.
• Came back at the age of 41, and didn't embarrass himself.
• In about 2002, he dropped by the booth, and was interviewed by Jerry Howarth. Stieb claimed that he was often "difficult" because he was both shy and a perfectionist.
• By the end of his career, he looked lost on the mound instead of arrogant.
• In June, 1987, Stieb was pinch-running for Cecil Fielder in the bottom of the 9th in a game at the Ex versus Milwaukee. Stieb went from first to third on a single but tripped over his own shadow between second and third. I think the Brewers short-stop (Dale Sveum?) was poised to throw him out but was laughing too hard (I don't know if that's true or not), so Stieb scrambled back up and made it to third safely.