I'm sorry about your grandfather, Jim. I'm also insanely ticked that I'm missing that 1960 game...like I said, damn you DISH, damn you to hell.
--Deb --- On Wed, 12/15/10, Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [DEADPOOL] Old Feller > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 9:07 PM > On Dec 15, 2010, at 8:38 PM, [email protected] > wrote: > > > When I was at mom's at Thanksgiving, we got caught up > in MLBtv (I don't get it at home, damn you, DISH). I don't > recall the name of the show, but they were doing basically a > marathon of baseball history hosted by the Elfin Sports Boy > including quite a bit of Bob Feller. I was kind of surprised > to see he was still living. > > My grandfather passed away the week before Thanksgiving -- > he had an autographed photo of Bob Feller that someone had > gotten for him some years ago, and we put it on display at > the funeral home for the viewing. Although my > grandfather lived in New Jersey, he was an Indians fan, both > because he hated the Yankees (and the Indians were the only > team to challenge the Yankees' dominance of the AL in the > years after World War II), and because both he and Feller > were originally from Iowa. > > So I had also recently had a "wow, Bob Feller is still > alive" moment, when we looked it up. > > I'm right now watching Bing Crosby's recording of Game 7 of > the 1960 World Series on MLB Network, which has nothing to > do with Bob Feller, but is still interesting. Would be > more interesting if they hadn't cut out all the commercials > and sponsorship announcements. > > -- > Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> > <http://www.ellwanger.tv/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en.
