..why thank you, Al
BTW you were a great baseball player...
BTW you were a great baseball player..."
Interestingly, a nephew of his got word of my nic, joined FR for a day and castigated me for being a conservative anti-semitic (see my tagline below!!) homophobic right-wing hater.
Needless to say, he was gone before I could respond.
You'd have thought he'd have appreciated my bringing attention to the memory of one of the greatest forgotten players of the 1920s-1930s...there's a reason why, at the very first All_Star Game, a famous photo was taken of 4 men standing shoulder to shoulder with their bats: Ruth, Foxx, Gehrig, and - Simmons. Because they were considered the 4 best hitters of their time (in the A.L.)..