the old braves team in milwaukee with aaron, mathews adcock, spahn, burdette was pretty good too.

i’ve got an adcock bat in my closet that is about 38″ long and about 35 ounces. i use it for an exercise bat. i have no idea how he hit for power with that war club.

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i’m going with mantle and maris, but i’ll ask my father who watched watched both of them in person at yankee stadium.

that’ll actually be a very nice topic of conversation the next time i talk with him. he always has some interesting insights. the funniest things he does though is the nicknames he has for the red sox players. “useless” is my favorite. he cracks up red sox friends here on the cape when he visits and does his “useless” batting impersonation of youkillis.

i think surprisingly he’s going to go with 1961, but we’ll see.

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It’s such a pity to not have full games of the teams and players from back then….to really get a pespective on just how great some of them were. You can read numbers and first hand accounts, but, seeing them is the key. That’s why I alwayshesitate to judge players/teams thatI don’t have enough video to see. I go only back to the ’55 and 56 seasons, when we got our first TV and I remember th games being televised. The area I grew up in only got the “Game Of The Week”, the Tigers, Cubs, White Sox and on occasion the Braves in Milwaukee. That still gave me a decent perspective on a lot of players. I’ve got to go with the ’61 yanks of teams I’ve seen, though. Six pitchers with 10 or more wins, 6 players with 20 or more homers, great defense…hard to pick against that.

My grandfather was a huge baseball fan, and played semi-pro ball for the mine teams around Terre Haute, Indiana and played ball with Tommy John’s father, so he took me to a lot of games in thoe cities and Cleveland. He had become friends of Johnny Beradino, who was a shortstop for the Browns and Indians for about 12 years, and they kept in touch over the years. He about stroked out the first time my grandmother turned on General Hospital one day and Johnny Beradino was playing Dr. Steve Hardy.

Secretly taking human growth hormone with the intent of gaining an edge over your opponent is a dishonest move.

Dishonorable, of course.

*Andy taking HGH was a lapse of good judgment. Honest people still make mistakes, as hard as that is to believe.*

It’s only a mistake when you get outed in the national press and you try to save face. Trying to get away with cheating is not a mistake. Dishonesty is not a thing honest people are known for, unless you’re an honest guy who makes this kind of “mistake.” lol

*When Andy was confronted, being the honest person that he is, he fessed up and admitted his mistake.*

When Andy was -caught- confronted he fessed up… about 6 years later, but hey, being such an honorable guy takes up a lot of your schedule so he didn’t get around to it until some guy named George Mitchell conveniently created a situation that allowed Andy to finally admit to what he was dying to admit the whole time. But, he was busy. And he’s grateful that the Mitchell Report came out and finally allowed him the time from his busy schedule of honesty to admit his mistake, lapse in judgment, act of less than honorable character, or whatever you want to call it.

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i’m going with mantle and maris, but i’ll ask my father who watched watched both of them in person at yankee stadium.

that’ll actually be a very nice topic of conversation the next time i talk with him. he always has some interesting insights. the funniest things he does though is the nicknames he has for the red sox players. “useless” is my favorite. he cracks up red sox friends here on the cape when he visits and does his “useless” batting impersonation of youkillis.

i think surprisingly he’s going to go with 1961, but we’ll see.

Does it somehow make it better that he left the prospect of spending his entire career on the yanks for houston supposedly because he felt disrespected about the money the yanks did not offer him and being placed on the backburner but he took less money when signing with the stros? This time, he claims he does not care about the money and that all he wants to do is play in NY and pitch at the new stadium. Then, he can’t sign for 10 million because he once again feels disrespected even though that could make him one of the highest payed fourth starters in the game. All of this so far is understandable – we cannot single out andy when all every player ever wants is the money it seems. However, to now turn around and say he willl play for the astros again for less money than the yanks original 10 mil offer would be the equivalent of doing anything he can to avoid playing in NY. I dont buy any of this but certainly, if this were true it would be unacceptable and he might as well stab the team in the heart and flip off the fans if he were to sign with houston for less than the yanks offer.

Congress was willing to take a deposition instead of using live testimony from Andy last time. Maybe they were being nice guys or maybe they knew Andy would be a terrible live witness. There’s a shot it’s the latter and his presence at any live proceeding would not be necessary.”

That was Congress. This is a grand jury. A federal grand jury. And if a trial ensues there is no way Pettitte would be excused from attending since his testimony is central to the issue of Clemens’ perjuring himself.

Anyway we’ll see how it sifts out.

I’m giving my opinion on the legal end. Nothing more than an opinion based on how I have seen the legal system, federal grand juries, and federal trials work.

But nobody knows what is going on with any of it right now – or at least I don’t think we know. Others may.