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To: pissant


If Jackie Robinson is #1, Branch Rickey should be #2.

My hero ? Ted Williams...pilot in WWII & Korea.


3 posted on 07/21/2005 8:32:06 PM PDT by stylin19a (In golf, some are long, I'm "Lama Long")
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4 posted on 07/21/2005 8:32:43 PM PDT by VastRWCon
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To: stylin19a

Very good choice. Didn't Dimaggio volunteer as well?


9 posted on 07/21/2005 8:34:21 PM PDT by pissant
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To: stylin19a
My hero ? Ted Williams...pilot in WWII & Korea.

And what an eye! Ted could call a pitch a ball before it left the pitcher's mound.

Ted Williams, a real hero on and off the field. But then Magic Johnson did "attain" the virus that causes AIDS. Apparently that's heroic too these days.

52 posted on 07/22/2005 5:44:03 AM PDT by old and tired
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To: stylin19a

"My hero ? Ted Williams...pilot in WWII & Korea."


VERY good call!


71 posted on 07/22/2005 9:13:11 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher ( If you want to give me a present, my size is cash..........)
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