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To: SiouxPal who wrote (43288)	5/4/2005 8:43:20 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104159

They called him the Old Perfesser; I think he was Yogi's English teacher. Actually an Oakland banker in the off-season. Fast Facts Baseball Almanac has placed an audio excerpt (in Real Audio format) of this actual testimony under the main menu for you to hear. USA Today (online) once had a feature called 20th Century: This Day In Sports. The July 8 entry paid tribute to the Casey Stengel testimony and read in part: Politicians long have been guilty of creating self-serving jargon. On this date in 1958, a group of them were introduced to another form of communication: Stengelese. Yankee manager Casey Stengel was in Washington, D.C., to testify before a special House subcommittee on the study of monopoly power, regarding baseball's antitrust exemption. Asked if his team would keep on winning, he said: "Well, I will tell you I got a little concern yesterday in the first three innings when I saw the three players I had gotten rid of, and I said when I lost nine what am I going to do and when I had a couple of my players I thought so great of that did not do so good up to the sixth inning I was more confused but I finally had to go and call on a young man in Baltimore that we don't own and the Yankees don't own him, and he is doing pretty good, and I would actually have to tell you that I think we are more like a Greta Garbo-type now from success." That's one sentence, 121 words, and just a fraction of Stengel's 45-minute discourse. Next up, Mickey Mantle simplified his testimony: "My views are just about the same as Casey's." Columnist Paul Greenberg recently (December 18, 2001) wrote an article called Casey Rides Again and commented, "Watching the commissioner (Bud Selig) deliver his report on the fiscal health of baseball with all the cheer of an undertaker, it occurred that nobody has so nonplused a congressional committee since 1958, when the late great Casey Stengel was called on to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on Anti-Trust and Monopoly. (The Hon. Estes Kefauver presiding, poor soul.)" ibid

To: SiouxPal who wrote (43288)	5/5/2005 1:32:13 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 104159

Just won a tee shirt from my radio station,in their daily rock trivia question. One of those rare occasions when I was online when the ? was axed,and yes, I told her :-) The guy discovered a musician whose first band was the Mushrooms; OK, google 3 or 4 pages of shrooms B4 one comes up without a first name. Surf them, and who do I see, but Glenn Frey. Only he's not the answer. 2nd or third ? was that this guy had produced 8 records B4 his first success, so I thought I knew, but anyway, go surf Glenn Frey's bio;...Bob Seger's name pops-up. :-) hee, hee, hee,I knew it. Seger was formerly, until inducted into the Hall this year, the Rodney Dangerfield of players. Lika Rock Rat