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From: jsg@rlgvax.UUCP (JSG)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: The George Brett Incident
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Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 17:04:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 27 17:04:50 1983
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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
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