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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Sunday, May 18, 2008N.Y. Post: FORMER YANKEE DOCK ELLIS FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE (RR)First Albert Hofmann and now this...damn.
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One of my wife's friends from her mommy group developed a liver condition during pregnancy that made her itch all over. I don't know what it's called, but it went away after she gave birth.
Dock Ellis is black?
Just for the record, Bobby Tolan, Lee May, Tommy McCraw, George Foster, Mudcat Grant, Vida Blue, Dave Cash, Bill Madlock, Vic Harris, George Scott, Bob Veale, Fergie Jenkins, Al Oliver, Jim Ray Hart, Dan Ford, Larry Hisle, and Lee Smith are all black.
New rules! It is only interesting to say "I had no idea that guy was the race he is" unless either
A) He is currently an obscure player
or
B) He is new to the major leagues
AND
C) His name would actually lead an impartial observer to draw an incorrect assumption about his race, instead of just being generically ambiguous.
For example, A and C would apply to Steve Jeltz, whereas B and C would apply to Reggie Willits.
I decided some rules like this had to be codified, after I started talking about how I never realized Al Bumbry was black, and then realized that that was a dumb and pointless observation, because his name sounds plenty black, and why would anyone care about my misconceptions of ballplayers from the 70's anyway? I might as well have said "Wow, I never would have guessed Don Sutton had curly hair".
Once when I had a pizza delivery job for a summer in college, I took an order for this ridiculously hot sounding chick named Candy. I had to deliver this pizza. Such a bummer. She was hideous.
As for Dock Ellis, I think I always pictured him to look just like Bill Lee, if Bill Lee is the one with the pot brownies. The drug association and all. Unless Bill Lee is black too, then I just don't know anymore.
When I was little, I thought that Hack Wilson was black. I think I saw a picture of him and learned the truth that way before I found out that you weren't allowed to be black back then.
Stay classy, Justin.
You must be quite the catch.
So's your mom.
I like rottweilers.
And now they're white? Day-umn. No one ever tells me anything.
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