[bomp] Ian Hunter knew better

[ItsBoss9@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 1/2/2005 2:08:56 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com writes:
> Branch Rickey who broke the color barrier w/ Jackie
That would've been the Indians, in the American
League......
coincidentally, the late 40s and early 50s were
probably the 
greatest era in the history of Cleveland baseball.

THERE IS A BASEBALL MOVIE BOOK that probably has the whole skinny on that 
film.  I'll look it up.  A copy must be out there somewhere.  I actually have a 
place in my heart for the Tribe, for several reasons.  a.) everybody loves the 
logo!  b.) that old ball park held so many people!!!  c.) Cleveland, Alan 
Freed, Ghoulardi, Mad Daddy... is just a culturally cool place to begin with, and 
the ball club has such a big part in this   d.) we all feel sorry for Vic 
Wertz, as the losing subjet in the Zapruder film of sport  e.) o.k., so the lake 
caught on fire because of pollution and there's no surf in cleveland... and 
Drew Carey is a Republican so that's no cred either...  but at the bottom of it 
all, the Indians are in all those Warner Brothers cartoons, too, so I always 
wanted them to be cool... and my dad said Bob Feller was the greatest pitcher 
he'd ever seen back in the days before Koufax... and he remembered Carl Hubbell.

Domenic Priore

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