My earliest childhood memory was being taken by my father to what must have been Linton St to watch training one night, and entering the rooms, I remember him pointing to this man and saying "that's Darrel Baldock". A defining moment in my life and what was I guess my introduction to a relationship with St Kilda F.C. at 5 years of age.
I had seen a hero of my fathers, so to me as a 5 year old this man that I was looking at in a red, white and black jumper was larger than life, and a memory I will always cherish.
Sadly my father has passed on but I always felt a connection of some description between the three of us, and still do.
My father was a policeman who was lucky enough to have been working on the day of the 1966 Grand Final and appears on the video of the game. So whilst I do not recall Darrel Baldock playing I have watched the tape of the game many times as it contains two people who I hold great respect for, and have very early childhood memories of my father and Darrel Baldock.
So Darrel Baldock gets 2 votes, one from me and the other from my father.
Regards
Martin Kilner
