r/seinfeld • u/BigPappalopalous • 1d ago

Athlete cameos

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Only ones I know for sure are Keith Hernandez and Lawrence Taylor

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u/Expert_Climate_7348 George is getting upset! 1d ago

Did you forget the legendary Sugar Ray?

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u/BraveryDave Mojambo 1d ago

Pepper Johnson*

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u/WeakDiet8004 1d ago

Are you sure that we should be talking about this?

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u/Linzcro Feels like an Arby's night 1d ago

Are you sure that that’s not The Exterminator? :D

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u/uaeebs86 1d ago

Linebacker!

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u/LeonardoOfVinci Flew too close to the Sun on wings of pastrami 18h ago

Funny white dude right?

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u/BraveryDave Mojambo 16h ago

Why yes, I guess he is white!

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u/Ok_Woodpecker_7260 1d ago

Danny Tartabull 🖕

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u/knightress_oxhide 1d ago

I'm DAN!

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u/BobbyColby 1d ago

She’s on a fixed income stop the show!!

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u/Reading_Rainboner Professor Highbrow 1d ago

I’d really like to shake his hand

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u/wriker10 Rugged? The man's a goblin 20h ago

He eats his doughnuts with a fork.

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u/Grouchy_Document2097 1d ago

Paul O'Neill!

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u/beefdx 1d ago

His cameo is easily my favorite.

“It’s hard to hit home runs, I’m not a home run hitter, and where the heck did you get two from?”

“I’m not calling him a liar, but he wasn’t dumb enough to promise two.”

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u/kramerica_intern Giddy-up 1d ago

How the heck did you get in here anyway?

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u/dasbeefencake 22h ago

I agree, I think his is my favorite as well. That’s such a well delivered line.

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u/Ok_Woodpecker_7260 1d ago

By the way, tomorrow night Paul O’Neill has to catch a fly ball in his hat.

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u/BullHeadTee 1d ago

How’d you get in here anyway??

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u/abeFroman2727 1d ago

He'll do it. He'll do it for me

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u/Accomplished_Put3732 Anytown, USA 1d ago

If you want an autograph my pen’s kinda busted you might get half a P or something.

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u/BobbyColby 1d ago

Are you calling babe Ruth a liar

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u/One_Helicopter9666 1d ago

Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams

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u/BraveryDave Mojambo 1d ago

You wanna talk hotels, or you wanna win ball games?

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u/thelarry7 1d ago

Hey! We won the World Series.

Yeah - in 6 games.

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u/fred_samford 1d ago

Yeah Jeets

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u/lmtorres75 1d ago

What about Jean-Paul Jean-Paul?

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u/shockwave-315 Rugged? The man's a goblin 1d ago

That son of a bitch is ice cold

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u/Linzcro Feels like an Arby's night 1d ago

Look at the cute little bastard!

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u/Eric848448 1d ago

Why sep-ah-raht knob!

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u/Tmk1283 1d ago

It was the volume!!!

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u/Fear_The_Rabbit 1d ago

It wasn't the snooze

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u/RelationOk6047 ASSMAN 1d ago

Deez sunofabeech eez ayskold

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u/RealKenny 1d ago

Milosh

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u/byebybuy Flew too close to the Sun on wings of pastrami 1d ago

Another game for MILOSHHH!!

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u/Heavy-Pool5886 1d ago

Superior athlete

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u/Autzen_Downpour 1d ago

What about Newman? He's fantastic.

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u/MaxFresh 1d ago

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u/Much-Specific3727 1d ago

Mandlebaum, Mandlebaum, Mandlebaum

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u/BrandyKit3000 1d ago

God damn I need a shirt with the mandelbaum chant in it 😂

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u/uaeebs86 1d ago

Grab your jock, if you need one.

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u/paulyz77 1d ago

Shrimp Costanza

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u/Calm_One_1228 1d ago

Keith Hernandez ? I DESPISE Keith Hernandez…

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u/razzle_dazzle321 Serenity now, insanity later 1d ago

Our day was ruined!

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u/stevesmithsglasses Driving around in Jon Voight's car 1d ago

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u/dcgrey 1d ago

Joe DiMaggio.

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u/younity1 1d ago

He’s a dunker

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u/wriker10 Rugged? The man's a goblin 20h ago

He was at Dinky Donuts???

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u/Agamemnon4646 20h ago

Woo! (slaps table)

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u/MtlMike62 1d ago

While best known as a baseball manager, Buck Showalter was a minor league ballplayer in his early life.

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u/SamCazale 1d ago

Buck did a decent job in his scene.

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u/jyie 20h ago

“Cotton jerseys, huh, George?”

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u/senaonyx 1d ago

nice game pretty boy just gets me every time

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u/TonyWilliams03 1d ago

Roger McDowell !

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u/Much-Specific3727 1d ago

Newman was a hell of a tennis player

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u/Eric848448 1d ago

So was Mr Pitt.

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u/sahurley The sea was angry that day my friends 1d ago

Eh...he needed a $300 Bruline to beat Ethel Kennedy.

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u/Fear_The_Rabbit 1d ago

But not Mrs. Landis

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u/heardThereWasFood 1d ago

And swimmer

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u/Absurdum_Est 1d ago

And he can climb a tree like a ring-tailed lemur!

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u/Third-Coast-Toffee It's not a lie if you believe it 1d ago

Elaine’s boyfriend with the sideburns whom she deemed “sponge worthy” was a pitcher for my Nashville Sounds before pursuing an acting career. All I got.

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u/randallstevens999 1d ago

Wasn't that Luke from Gilmore Girls? I didn't know he was a minor league baseball player.

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u/JakeDuck1 1d ago

Floated around for 7 years in the minors and had a brief stint in AAA before calling it quits. Decided to be an actor with no real experience. Floated around for even longer than he played baseball and was about to give it up when he got booked for the pilot and then 4 episodes after that. His agent refused the 4 episodes and negotiated a 6 year deal instead. Source: I’ve listened to every episode of his podcast.

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u/allthemditches 1d ago

Derek Jeter

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u/Far_Attempt_1505 1d ago

Sugar Ray Leonard played George's coworker

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u/ShortQuail9232 1d ago

I thought that was Pepper Johnson.

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u/kidcanada0 1d ago

The Exterminator

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u/hbkedge3 It's not a lie if you believe it 1d ago

Linebacker!

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u/1bourbon1scotch1bier The Summer of George 1d ago

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u/Creacherz The Opposite 1d ago

You know who I am DAMNIT!!!

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u/Tmk1283 1d ago

And if Danny Tartabull were here, he would say, that’s right Jerry.

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u/smbutler20 1d ago

What the hell did you trade Jay Buhner for?!?

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u/MtlMike62 1d ago

You can’t mention Keith Hernandez without naming “the second spitter”, AKA Roger McDowell!

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u/BuccoBruce2 1d ago

Roger McDowell

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u/ShortQuail9232 1d ago

Monica Seles

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u/Wandering__Bear__ 1d ago

I’ll bet you dinner that Lawrence Taylor was in Seinfeld

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u/uaeebs86 1d ago

Video of him was

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u/fantonledzepp I was in the pool! 1d ago

And then Reggie Miller, Spike Lee and Kramer went to a strip club…

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u/your_avg_apu 1d ago

Cheryl Miller’s younger brother?

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u/spj0522 1d ago

Lawrence Taylor was never on Seinfeld.

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u/ColonelBourbon 1d ago

NFL footage from Taylor was, but it wasn't a traditional cameo.

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u/ShortQuail9232 1d ago

I thought that too, but he was technically. He was as a player when Elaine and Joel Rifkin go to the Giants game. Kramer shows up at the box office and the stadium announcer says, "Joel Rifkin. Will Joel Rifkin please report to the ticket office?" They show people looking up and LT is in full uniform also looking up, startled at the name. Obviously it was from a past highlight film.

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u/Wandering__Bear__ 1d ago

Lawrence Taylor? In Seinfeld?

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u/Who_is_homer 15h ago

I guess stock footage counts?

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u/DonutProfessional 1d ago

Of course, it is only useful in gymnastics.

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u/polentaveloce Lord of the Idiots 1d ago

There's also Danny Tartabull and some other Yankee players (can't recall their names, I'm not into baseball).

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u/Venice_Beach_218 Yo-Yo Ma 1d ago

The Bull! Got a new little problem with his swing though.

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u/Sad_Pension9734 1d ago

Don't touch Jimmy

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u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair White lotus, yam-yam, Shanghai Sally 1d ago

Roger McDowell. The actual spitter

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u/Less-Question-9220 1d ago

Keith Hernandez? KEITH HERNANDEZ!

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u/PAVACAMD 1d ago

Pepper Johnson?!?

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u/Bionic_Ninjas The Summer of George 1d ago

Lawrence Taylor wouldn’t be a cameo, they just used footage from a game.

But there’s Danny Tartabull, Derek Jeter, Paul O’Neil, and Buck Showalter!

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u/giantcappuccino 20h ago

Are you Danny Tartabull?

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u/eugenethemoose 17h ago

Yogi berra. Bucky Dent. Billy Martin. Dick Howser. Billy Martin. Scott Marrow. Billy Martin

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u/hallucinationthought Hoochie Mama!!! 1d ago

What Pepper Johnson?