Talk:Julio Franco

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Contents 1 Trivia 1.1 Games by position & Statistics 2 Languages Spoke and Contracts? 3 Beams of light that were amplified by stimulated emission of radiation and subsequently dispersed around the field by Julio 4 Question about his age

[edit] Trivia

Only active player to face a pitcher* who also faced Ted Williams: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/offbase/060920

• Jim Kaat

If someone knows where to put this, please do and delete this comment

Done. Thanks. --ChaChaFut 02:41, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Games by position & Statistics

I removed the list of positions & games he played at each one. Considering he is an active player, this list will be out of date unless someone comes in after every game he plays and updates it. This information is easily accessible at any site like baseball reference.com or ESPN.com. 128.61.70.49 18:10, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Update - I removed the Statistics too. Same reasoning. 128.61.70.49 18:10, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Languages Spoke and Contracts?

I could be totally wrong but I thought that he negotiates his own contracts, and he can speak 3+ languages? (English, Spanish, Japanese, ??Korean??). Would be nice info there. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.117.201.120 (talk • contribs) .

If you can find a reference for that, go ahead and add it.  :) —Wknight94 (talk) 20:47, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Beams of light that were amplified by stimulated emission of radiation and subsequently dispersed around the field by Julio

The article says: "He still amazes pitchers, fooled by Franco's unorthodox batting stance, who try to blast him with fastballs only to see Franco spray laser beams all over the field."

--Ok, wait a second. Is this whole "laser beam" thing literal or figurative? I mean, it says that the pitchers are blasting him with "fastballs", implying baseballs, and yet he's hitting laser beams? How is that possible? I'll grant you that I've never seen Mr. Franco play in person, but on TV it appears that he actually is hitting the baseballs that the pitchers are throwing, not laser beams. I was just kinda confused by this. Can someone explain? Thanks, mates.

• Yeah, I just saw that too. I removed much of those sentences, as that last paragraph was incredibly POV and also poorly written. I'm a big Julio Franco fan (I'm a die-hard Braves fan, and I was quite upset that he left to play for the Mets), but as a Wikipedian in addition to a baseball follower, I couldn't let that paragraph slide. -- Kicking222 16:03, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question about his age

I have heard that due to bad birth records in the dominican his birthdate is not for certain, and he may be older (or younger) from ESPN. I am not sure of the validity of this statement.

If history has taught us anything, he's probably OLDER (as most Dominican birth certificate problems are the result of highly talented, but VERY young, ball players who want to play pro-ball before they turn 18 getting falsified birth certificates to play), which is almost frightening! -- Ubergenius 18:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

His old baseball cards listed his birth as August 23, 1961 which would make him 45, however that also would have made him 16 or 17 when the Phillies initially signed him in 1978... 71.36.194.46 22:28, 14 November 2006 (UTC)