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1. Howie Menckel Posted: January 21, 2012 at 11:55 PM (#4042192)I was just a young, dumb, white teenager when I first found out that he saved all the racist hate mail he got as he chased Babe Ruth's record.
He said that he wanted to save them for posterity, in case future generations couldn't believe how vicious so many racists were at the time.
I think that was exactly the right call. It's part of history.
I've noted here before that in the 1972-73 offseason, while Aaron was 41 shy of tying the record (and hit 40), a kid in my neighborhood - not in Klan country, just the northeast - casually mentioned that Ruth would keep the record because he or someone else, if need be, would be a sniper on a roof to prevent [Aaron] from breaking it.
The rest of us were a bit taken aback, but we were young enough and the societal change was new enough that we just moved on to the next topic. I never did forget it, though.
That being the case, President Gore should have issued a declaration saying so back in '07.
Yes, and he was sitting next to Aaron at the luncheon...
The drugs however might help you make millions and millions more so they're like a shortcut...
I'd be interested in seeing the full results of that poll, if only to discover what noun was intended to follow the word "most".
DB
I was just a young, dumb, white teenager when I first found out that he saved all the racist hate mail he got as he chased Babe Ruth's record.
He said that he wanted to save them for posterity, in case future generations couldn't believe how vicious so many racists were at the time.
I think that was exactly the right call. It's part of history.
Absolutely. That same sentiment was what motivated Eisenhower when he summoned a group of high ranking congressmen and influential newspaper publishers to visit Hitler's death camps. He knew that if reliable eyewitnesses didn't view these camps while the corpses were still warm, future generations simply wouldn't have believed that they existed.
Not that this has stopped the deniers, but then you've also got people who say that the Dixiecrats were just misunderstood constitutional originalists.
It's not their fault! It was the Percodan!
These are two completely separate opinions. Someone could believe that Bonds "cheated" to get the record while still acknowledging that he has it. To deny a statistical fact about who hit the most HR's in MLB history is just delusional. I like Aaron's take on the subject, actually.
There is a player who hit more home runs than I did
Yes, and he was sitting next to Aaron at the luncheon...
And there's another one on house arrest in Beverly Hills.
I wonder if Bonds is allowed to participate in charity functions while under house arrest? I'm not sure there would be much demand, but still wonder how they treat a situation like that. He's technically not employed and I know that in most house arrest cases you are still allowed to go to and from work, but is charity considered work?
I doubt it. I don't imagine the court would consider it "work" if he wasn't getting paid. And they'd also probably consider that he doesn't need to earn money to make ends meet during his house arrest period like most people would.
I saw a few of those letters at a museum exhibit a few years back. There was some whacked-out stuff in them. What I remember most was that the writers of those gems seemed insane and were obviously just barely literate.
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