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01-01-2011, 05:01 PM
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Fantastic stuff everybody! Richard's letter is particularly spectacular and it was really neat to see Phil's minor league photo (which I have taken the liberty of rotating). Imagine the shit he had to put up with in Texas.
As a Jew named McDonald (we were McDonaldszewski pre-Ellis Island) growing up amidst the goyim in the shetls of Colorado I have been privy to a raft of jewboy crap myself. It was the likes of Hank Greenberg and Barney Ross that put the lie to the stereotypes. They were heroes to whom us regular schlemiels are indebted. They indeed made it easier for us. I've told this story a couple of times on the Board so forgive me if it is getting boring but it's one of my most special baseball, nay more, one of my most special life memories. I close my eyes and I can still see myself, as if it were one of Jimmy C.'s Type I photographs, four-foot-nothing, looking up at the man himself and asking for his autograph. An encore presentation of an old post:  
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01-01-2011, 06:02 PM
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On May 7, 1941, the day after hitting two home runs in his farewell appearance, Greenberg was inducted in the Army and reported to Fort Custer at Battle Creek, Michigan, where many troops of the Fifth Division turned out at the train station to welcome the slugging star. “If there’s any last message to be given to the public,” he told The Sporting News. “Let it be that I’m going to be a good soldier.”
Greenberg ships out 
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01-02-2011, 08:57 AM
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01-02-2011, 07:12 PM
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