[WalterSkinner]

IN USING THIS TERM I IN NO WAY INTENDED TO LUMP THE VAST MAJORITY OF POLITE FREEPERS, WHO HAVE LEGITIMATE RESERVATIONSW ABOUT RUDY

..why thank you, Al

BTW you were a great baseball player...

[Al Simmons]

" ..why thank you, Al

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.)..