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To: ConservativeStatement

Isn’t this why Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson were defrocked?


2 posted on 10/25/2022 5:57:38 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: HIDEK6

They were under the employment of Major League Baseball at the time of their deeds. He has no connection as an employee to a team.


4 posted on 10/25/2022 6:00:34 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Nothing last forever, even cold November rain.)
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To: HIDEK6

I don’t see how he loses.


9 posted on 10/25/2022 6:03:58 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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To: HIDEK6

“Isn’t this why Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson were defrocked?”

Pete Rose didn’t sell mattresses.


17 posted on 10/25/2022 6:17:05 PM PDT by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: HIDEK6

As well as Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays

According to then-commissioner Bowie Kuhn, a casino was “no place for a baseball hero and Hall of Famer.” He placed both Mantle and Mays on baseball’s permanently ineligible list.


29 posted on 10/26/2022 2:23:11 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: HIDEK6
Isn’t this why Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson were defrocked?

Defrocked, you say? Didn't know Pete and Shoeless Joe were men of the cloth deprived of their ecclesiastical status. Oddest but coolest baseball stat yet, tho.

30 posted on 10/26/2022 2:33:14 AM PDT by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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