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Mike Felder
AstroDaily: Do you think your speed on the bases typecasted you into a certain role when you reached the big leagues? Did you get a good chance to be an everyday player?
Mike Felder: No, actually, I didn't get a chance to be an everyday player at all with Milwaukee. I think, at the time when I came up, Rickey Henderson was a big idol of mine with him being from Oakland, coming up with the A's and Billy Martin just letting him play his game. I saw how fast he rose to the big leagues and became a major player with the stolen bases, so I tried to pattern myself after Rickey Henderson. Speed was something that a lot of teams didn't have and, being in an organization like Milwaukee, I thought that was one asset I could bring to the club. Once I made it up, they didn't want to lose that stigma of being a power-hitting team. In 1982, my second year in the organization, was the year of the famous "Harvey Wallbangers" when they went to the World Series on home runs. They built the team around just power hitters. So when I finally made it up in September of '85, the only way they knew how to win was through power. It was like they didn't want to make that transition or change, and they were afraid that "if we change up and add a speed guy it would affect us." So basically I never got the opportunity. But because of the stats I put up in the minor leagues, they were still afraid of losing me for nothing and looking bad at the time.
Redid the facegen. I can distinctly remember the 1989 Topps card of him so I used that as the basis for him.
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