Steve Sax won two World Series rings, was a five-time All-Star and got nearly 2,000 hits in the big leagues.
Yet to many fans, it’s those half-dozen lines he uttered to a bunch of yellow cartoon characters a long time ago that really made him famous.
”I get asked as much about being on `The Simpsons’ as I do about baseball,” Sax said this week. ”They don’t want to know how it was to hit against Nolan Ryan. They want to know about being on that show.”
All thanks to ”Homer at the Bat.”
Still hugely popular 25 years after it first aired, that Simpsons episode featuring the voices of Ken Griffey Jr.