Things about Baseball which could be interpreted as random

by **Wheels Tupay** » Wed Dec 15, 2010 23:55:05

Bob Feller passes away at 92.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=A ... bit-feller

by **swishnicholson** » Wed Dec 15, 2010 23:55:27

Oh, come on.

Edit: Ah, made it.

Website · by **Wolfgang622** » Wed Dec 15, 2010 23:55:58

Let that enthusiastic old racist rest in peace.

by **swishnicholson** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 00:01:26

mozartpc27 wrote:Let that enthusiastic old racist rest in peace.

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Website · by **Wolfgang622** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 00:25:01

swishnicholson wrote:
mozartpc27 wrote:Let that enthusiastic old racist rest in peace.

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He was a big voice on the "don't integrate" side of things back in the 1940s.

by **jerseyhoya** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 00:31:32

The obituaries don't really make him sound that bad. He barnstormed with Satchel Paige after WWII before the color barrier was broken. He seems like a 1940s version of Curt Schilling with a better fastball.

by **swishnicholson** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 00:42:10

mozartpc27 wrote:
swishnicholson wrote:
mozartpc27 wrote:Let that enthusiastic old racist rest in peace.

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He was a big voice on the "don't integrate" side of things back in the 1940s.

I don't really think that was the case-in fact I've seen him noted as particularly pro-integration, although I'm willing to look at evidence otherwise. I know he initially didn't think much of Jackie Robinson as a ballplayer, and he had a bad habit of saying awkward things, particularly in his later years. But I also know he organized a barnstorming tour with Satchel Paige and other negro ballplayers and maintained good relations with teammates of all races both during and after his career. I think he was cantankerous and ill-tempered and not very tolerant at times, but I think racist is a little too simplistic for a guy with his long and varied life.

Website · by **Wolfgang622** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 02:45:40

Eh, looking things over, it would appear I was mistaken. I could have sworn I read that Feller was one of those obnoxiously against integration, but I guess I was wrong.

So, I take it all back. RIP big guy.

by **jerseyhoya** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 03:11:45

Joe Posnanski is pretty good at writing about baseball

by **Barry Jive** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 03:27:30

by **philliesphhan** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 13:01:50

I don't think it would really be fair, even if he was racist (which evidently he wasn't), to think someone born in 1918 was a bad person if they were prejudice. I mean, that's a lonnnnnnng time ago. What do you think he heard from his parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, friends' parents, EVERYONE growing up?

Website · by **Wolfgang622** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 13:03:56

Bob Feller said not wrote:They broadcast my graduation from high school coast to coast, live on NBC.

Wow. This is true, apparently. Wow.

In the 1930s?

I am really astonished.

by **smitty** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 17:54:04

philliesphhan wrote:I don't think it would really be fair, even if he was racist (which evidently he wasn't), to think someone born in 1918 was a bad person if they were prejudice. I mean, that's a lonnnnnnng time ago. What do you think he heard from his parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, friends' parents, EVERYONE growing up?

I Van Meter, Iowa to boot.

by **drsmooth** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 18:32:24

jerseyhoya wrote:Joe Posnanski is pretty good at writing about baseball

you are on a link-sharing roll

great stuff

by **phatj** » Fri Dec 17, 2010 23:17:05

Speaking of Joe Poz, here's a wonderful piece about Greinke. It almost makes me wish we had held out to get him instead of Lee.

Oh, hell, let's trade for him anyway.

by **lowcountry** » Fri Dec 17, 2010 23:25:56

phatj wrote:Speaking of Joe Poz, here's a wonderful piece about Greinke. It almost makes me wish we had held out to get him instead of Lee.

Oh, hell, let's trade for him anyway.

Gotta save somebody for the big July acquisition.

by **BigEd76** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 23:49:41

I was looking for Berkman's spring training comments about being better than the Phils and found this:

BigEd76 wrote:Matt Kemp and Rihanna split up after cheating on each other. Rebound season!

shoulda got

by **jerseyhoya** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 23:50:36

The fucking bum Cardinals winning the World Series

by **jerseyhoya** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 23:52:11

David Freese follows Edgar Renteria as World Series MVP

by **philliesphhan** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 23:54:59

jerseyhoya wrote:David Freese follows Edgar Renteria as World Series MVP

Goes to show how fuckin awful that 06 team was. Freese is much better than that MVP.

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