Posted on 07/15/2004 11:38:10 AM PDT by kjfine
Bob Feller BUMP.
To give Roger Clemens something to go by apparently. LOL!
Growing up "Rapid Robert" was one of my idols. I see from the article he is 85. Glad he is still alive and obviously has a sharp mind.
Commissioner Bud Selig dismissed the criticism of SIMPSON, .........
"OJ SIMPSON is one of the sports legends of our generation," Selig said before the game. "I don't think that that's valid criticism."
How's that sound, Bud? And Simpson didn't even need the Supreme Court to overturn a conviction. Maybe the minor league team in Buffalo can have an OJ night?
They will find no 72 virgins!
ROFLOL!!!
Bud is my hero!!! Riiiight!
He's the same age as my Granddad.
Bob Feller's fastball
When Feller reached the major leagues as a 17-year-old schoolboy from Iowa (striking out 15 in his debut in 1936), he was immediately compared to Johnson. Who threw harder? Upon seeing Feller pitch in 1937, Johnson, an extremely modest man, told legendary sportswriter Shirley Povich (Maury Povich's Father FYI) that Feller didn't throw as hard as he had. While Feller also had a devastating curve and added a slider when he returned after World War II, it was the fastball that made him a legend. He led the AL seven times in K's and six times in wins. And imagine if they had kept pitch counts in his day: in 1946 he pitched 371 innings, fanned 348 and walked 153.
Don't make 'em like they used to, huh?
Ali was a coward and hid behind a religion to mask it.
He is as bad a Bill Clinton in dogding the draft.
Feller is right.
Check!
Bob Feller is a prince and a real man for speaking up against the weaklings in MLB today.
Bobby Bragan is another 85 year old who speaks his mind...anyone remember where he played and coached in his 70 year career?
I don't what MLB was thinking. They could have had Nolan Ryan throwing out the first pitch -- he's somebody connected to baseball and Houston, but instead they had him involved in that cheesy Taco Bell pitching for a million promotion. What an embarrassment.
BTTT!
And don't get me started on that dopey ceremony honoring Roger Clemens.
I don't agree with what Ali did but I'll give him a nod for at least having the balls to go court and face the potential of going to prison for his actions. He's a lot less of a coward than the chickens**ts who went to Canada or Sweden.
Whomever set all that up needs a new job....at the unemployment office!!!
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