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To: Alexander who wrote (8234)	10/30/1999 9:32:00 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Right you are. Not the time or place. So you remember Ted Williams managing the Washington Senators? Del Unser, Joe Coleman, Paul Casanova, all good guys.

To: Alexander who wrote (8234)	10/30/1999 2:39:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I saw a Geraldo show the other day where they were discussing the matter... I assume you people here don't watch Geraldo so I'd better recap as it was interesting to me (a sports neophyte). I know I never could figure out what seems like excessive punishment for Rose's gambling problem when you have all these other guys in sports with drug problems and arrest records.. for a while Canseco was always in trouble etc. Doris Goodwin said that the problem with Rose and compulsive gambling is because it puts baseball in a precarious position about what to do with "Shoeless Joe Jackson" and the black socks which nearly caused the demise of baseball in the early 1900s. I don't know any more about this than I have seen in movies but apparently there is a growing faction that wants the black socks to be reinstated to the baseball hall of fame, etc. based on what would today be considered unacceptable labor practices by the owners. If they let Rose back in then it is going to force this black socks issue which they don't want to address. Does anybody agree with this, if that is the case I think its totally unacceptable to Rose.