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To: Rambi who wrote (17084)	1/26/1999 6:41:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

Well, if I were as good at baseball as your hubby was, I'd be proud of myself, too. Goodness, that's a long time to hold a record! Like most women, not to be sexist but I think it's true, I just don't have an interest in sports, or not much. The funny thing is, my husband has even less of one. So, I have been known to watch the Chicago Bulls play the NBA finals against Utah, or the Superbowl, or some such, maybe the Olympics, on very rare occasion, and my husband makes fun of me. Well, that and the fact that I sometimes work out in gyms. He calls me a jockette, but no self-respecting jock would agree.

To: Rambi who wrote (17084)	1/26/1999 6:43:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

How did he get the honor, Penni? That's pretty neat. Those records are cool. The last baseball experience I had was sharing an ortho room in the hospital with a pitcher whose arm bone literally exploded. He could still kick out the first pitch tho.

To: Rambi who wrote (17084)	1/26/1999 6:49:00 PM
From: DScottD	Respond to of 71178

He must have been quite a player. My most vivid memory playing baseball as a kid was pitching one over the backstop. My wife too has accepted my obsession with baseball and, in fact, has become quite a fan. She still doesn't understand the infield fly rule though. If he doesn't have it already, get him the book Out of Left Field. Loaded with meaningful trivia. Like, do you know what Bobby Thomson, Dave Winfield and Sonny Corleone have in common? > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Give up. October 3, 1951. That was the day Thomson hit the Shot Heard 'Round the World against the Dodgers to win the National League pennant for the Giants; the day Dave Winfield was born; and the day Sonny Corleone was killed. The Dodgers Giants playoff game from that day was playing on the radio in the tollbooth when Sonny was ambushed. Another good book is The Worst Pitchers of All Time.