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ps I still think you should have gotten the MVP in 1941 over Dimaggio.

LOL!
A fairly liberal friend of mine, a professor of psychology, asked me to
explain when baseball was "America's Game".

Even though I'm not a big baseball fan, I said I thought it was a combination
of things: tradition, history, statistical obsession with performances (with asterisks
to denote suspect records) and even a religional, spiritual thing. How else could you
explain "Field of Dreams" and "The Natural"?

Your comment has me chuckling because I know I was at least on target when I said tradition
and history were a big part of the appeal!

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"Your comment has me chuckling because I know I was at least on target when I said tradition and history were a big part of the appeal!"

LOL indeed. History for sure. When Ted was 38, I was 27 and hubbie 29. We used to vacation in Florida in the late sixties and Ted was always available for discussions during spring training. We was a wonderful fisherman with the patience to a saint. We'd stand around Ted and every father would approach with their young sons and state, within earshot of Ted, "son, I want you to meet the best hitter baseball has ever seen" or words to that effect.