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To: andy58-in-nh
Scooter was one of the last players from those great post-WWII teams, and a pretty good little shortstop

Really a throwback to a different era when major league baseball players were regular guys...regular sized (Rizzuto was 5' 6" and 160 pounds)...with regular paychecks...living in regular neighborhoods among their fans. Heck...Rizzuto, like many players of the same era, lost several good playing years serving in WWII

17 posted on 08/14/2007 8:22:58 AM PDT by uxbridge
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To: uxbridge
Phil Rizzuto - NAVY Vet

Quotes from Wikipedia:

*"Uh-oh, deep to left-center, nobody's gonna get that one! Holy cow, somebody got it!"

* "Bouncer to third, they'll never get him! No, why don't I just shut up!"

* "All right! Stay fair! No, it won't stay fair. Good thing it didn't stay fair, or I think he would've caught it!"

* "Oh, these Yankees can get the clutch hits, Murcer. I might have to go home early, I just got a cramp in my leg."

* "Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win." (He was still on the air, just after a game, when he heard that Pope Paul VI had just died. Esquire Magazine called that the "Holiest Cow of 1978."

24 posted on 08/14/2007 8:30:34 AM PDT by frogjerk (If ignorance was bliss, liberals would be happy.)
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