Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!jeff From: jeff@utastro.UUCP (Jeff Brown the Scumbag) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: 3 cheers for the Mick Message-ID: <334@utastro.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 09:24:47 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.334 Posted: Thu Jul 11 09:24:47 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 01:18:40 EDT Distribution: net Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 18 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** Destined to fire up the pro-/anti-Pete Rose flames again: Mickey Mantle was quoted (by the Austin paper) from his book, "The Mick", as saying: "If I played my career hitting singles like Pete [Rose], I'd wear a dress." Rose could play, powered by ego, for the next thirty years, and I still wouldn't call him even the best switch-hitter of all time. Jeff Brown the Scumbag (...!utastro!jeff) U. of Texas Astronomy Dept. Austin, TX 78712