Dear Roger--
I wd love to see that site/sight/cite--
the Atlanta Braves are one of he best and most successful baseball teams of
the Nineties--they play in the National League East Division and have won it
almost every year for almost ten years now--but have only won the World
Series once--they have one of the greatest pitchers of all time--Gregg
Maddux--and one of the most hated players in baseball--the notorious John
Rocker--who gave an infamous interview to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED magazine n which
he blasted gays, Asians and all other manner of New Yorkers--when he had
played there--in a series against the New York Mets--
the Braves were originally from Boston and moved to Milwaukee--where I
live--in 1953--the moved to Atlanta in 1966--the greatest home run hitter of
al all time and the winningest left handed pitcher of all time played for
them--Hank Aaron and Warren Spahn--Edie Matthews also played for them--one of
the greatest home run hitters after Aaron--
both the Braves and Cleveland Indians have been under protest by American
Indian groups (I'm part Ojibway)--for their logos and names--
Braves fans have what they call "the chop" as a slogan that they cheer--they
make a chop movement with the hands and do a mock "Indian war chant"==
they are owned by the media mogul Ted Turner
I could go on longer as am a baseball fanatic--
but maybe this is more than enough!
I should add in honor of my friend Mark Shurilla here--a great musician--that
he did record a famous underground collectible record worth over a hundred
dollars in Japan called WARREN SPAHN--after the Braves pitcher--
oh well--baseball! I could go on until the cows come home!
cheers to you dear friend--
and I wd love to see the things you wrote about!
always--
david baptiste
(we have a team now here called the Milwaukee Brewers--for on year they were
the Seattle Pilots then moved here after the Braves left--before that the
"Brew Crew" was a famous minor league team--I was watching the game on TV
yesterday and in stitches--creases or creased-- as I thin k they say in
England--the announcers said so many hilarious things--part of the fun of
baseball is the use of language--very creative--and al the lore and aura that
surrounds it--I was a star player as a kid--)
the announcers were talking about another announcer--a former player--and one
of them--himself a former player--said--yeah--what does he charge to rent out
his forehead for a billboard!
I thought it was kind of Fluxus event!
cheers--
