jaggeh 857 4
07/21/2006 08:51 PM

he played in the 1945 season?

you mean the season where all the real men were off fighting a war and all they could get to fill the majors were nacy boys.

Sarah (Donde esta mis pantalones?) 30,444 4
07/21/2006 08:58 PM

Was he on this team?

Beater of the Meat 10,680 4
07/21/2006 08:59 PM

Willie Stargell hit the longest homerun in the recently deceased Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. He's one of the greatest ever to play the game. I've never heard of that other guy, though.

Ollie Ollie Go Go Pop 201,792 7
07/21/2006 09:11 PM

Yeah, but he was black.

Big Irish Guy 172,803 10
07/21/2006 09:13 PM

Black like Lambie.

The Jerk 6,243 5
07/21/2006 09:42 PM

Hey Chickens, you live in Asheville? The company I work for in Vancouver, Canada prints the Asheville Transit System (ATS) ticket books. And I bet you thought Canada was just a bunch of lumberjacks and curlers... Although most of it still is.

Closet Friend #1004 3,982 4
07/21/2006 10:15 PM

</shakes head slowly> Tourists...



The Asheville Tourettes** would be better. Expectations would be lower; and win or lose, good team or bad, the marketing/merchandising would be explosive!



** Turn off the sound before clicking - the pop-ups are nsfw...

Millie 105,960 9
07/22/2006 08:17 AM

I saw Ted Williams in Bradlee's in Nashua NH once. I was working as a temp doing inventory and he was yelling because there was no one to wait on him at the jewelry counter.



I wish I had asked for his autograph, but he was too pissed off, and possibly drunk.



But it was TED WILLIAMS!

To Chickens to take a Chance 236,007 13
07/22/2006 11:23 PM

Cool.

Dogs Akimbo 156,536 9
07/22/2006 11:40 PM

His shirts were okay, but what's with the Frostin' eye patch?

daisypie 49,199 6
07/22/2006 11:50 PM

I met 1965 AL Rookie of the Year Curt Blefary. He lived

a few houses down the street from me, in New Jersey.

daisypie 49,199 6
07/23/2006 12:02 AM

...I also met a pretty good ball player, a left handed first baseman, captain of his Yale ('48) team, and who also played in the first college world series, George H. W. Bush. His primary claim to fame, however, is that of having sired the worst ever President of the United States...

Big Irish Guy 172,803 10
07/23/2006 01:04 AM

Hahahaha, daisy grew up in New Jersey.

Whistler P. McManus 135,831 13
07/23/2006 05:27 AM

Chix, you met a baseball player. That is not history, that is trivia.

Straw puts Chance in name cause everyone's doin it 58,435 10
07/23/2006 06:09 AM

A couple of weeks ago I went to a sci-fi convention and got to meet William Schallert. This guy has had cameos in roughly 3 billion television shows.



The various celebrity guests set their own price lists for autographs, and the choice for him was $20 for a color 8X10 glossy or $5 to sign the convention program. So I pulled out the $5 and asked who I gave the money to. He said he'd take it. I'm thinking, "This guy is a TV icon, and I'm supposed to give him cash?" I felt like a cheap john or something.



Anyway, he was signing my program and we chatted a bit, then I asked him if I could take his picture. He kindly said yes, and as I was holding up the camera, I realized I still had the 5 bucks in my hand. Fumbling, I tried to hand it to him, and it ended up as a toss. That's right. I threw money at a Frost-ing TV LEGEND*.



*certain adjectives may or may not be an exaggeration.

MIdgets 46,143 5
07/23/2006 06:15 AM

You shouldn't have given him the money, you know he's just going to blow it on malt liquor.



Next time buy him a sammich.

daisypie 49,199 6
07/23/2006 06:15 AM

Yeah, but what baseball team did he play for, Straw?

Straw puts Chance in name cause everyone's doin it 58,435 10
07/23/2006 06:17 AM

He probably played on TV. I would check the list in imdb, but there are 297 entries.