Dave Parker’s Passing Sparks Emotional Tributes: What Teammates and Legends Reveal About His Untold Legacy
Keith Hernandez didn’t play on any teams with Parker, but was certainly a peer as both were top major leaguers in the late 1970s through the 1980s.
“The best player of the late ’70s and early ’80s,” Hernandez told the New York Post’s Mike Puma. “Great boisterous peer.
“He used to say, “When the leaves turn brown, I will be wearing the [batting title] crown.” Until I usurped his crown in ’79. He was a better player than me. RIP.”
Hernandez did indeed win the National League batting title in 1979 with a .344 average after Parker won it for the previous two consecutive seasons, batting .338 in 1977 and .334 in 1978.
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