Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 7/7/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!jsg From: jsg@rlgvax.UUCP (JSG) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: The George Brett Incident Message-ID: <910@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 17:04:50 EDT Article-I.D.: rlgvax.910 Posted: Wed Jul 27 17:04:50 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 28-Jul-83 20:05:34 EDT References: <322@houxt.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 20 Free agancy started by the Yankees with Catfish Hunter? What sport have you been following. It certainly hasn't been baseball. As I recall Andy Messersmth (ah, he was also a pitcher, maybe that's why you got confused) was the player who sued and started free agency. As for George Brett, leave it to Billy Martin. He definitely has been using an illegal bat, but what a time to bring it up (after a game winning homer, for those who have been hibernating). You may not like Billy, but you've got to admit he's one of the best, shrudest(sp?) managers to hit the bigs since, oh probably the greatest, Casey Stengle (who was Billy's manager for several years, and Billy sure payed attention). It will be interesting to see the outcome of the case. AL president Lee MacPhail ruled in a similar case (in '77 I think) that it was not the intention of the rule (referring to pinetar above the 18 inch mark). However, that was on a protest and no umpire decision was involved. We'll see. jeff [seismo, mcnc, inhp4, allegra, we13]!rlgvax!jsg