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By all means, bring back the "spitter"!! The Barry Bonds-types will still hit plenty of homers what with their short fences, and pumped up bodies. One of my favorite times was watching Gaylord Perry pitch. Ya never knew what he would throw, and the drama (high comedy) was merely the "anticipation" of his next ploy.

The funniest thing I ever saw in baseball was when a Pirates pitcher was getting hammered, and Andy Van Slyke came out to the mound wearing a master carpenters belt, loaded with every illegal pitchers tool imaginable!!

The funniest thing I ever saw in baseball was when a Pirates pitcher was getting hammered, and Andy Van Slyke came out to the mound wearing a master carpenters belt, loaded with every illegal pitchers tool imaginable!!

Andy Van Slyke was a piece of work - wonderful work. That guy was great for baseball.

Quotations From Chairman Van Slyke

The person I'd most like to be other than me is my wife, so I can see how wonderful it is to be married to me.

Van Slyke, by the way, had it about right when Lenny Dykstra was playing for the Phillies: Every time we play them and I go to center field, it's like wading through a toxic waste dump. (Dykstra was a notorious tobacco chewer.)