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Jackie Robinson, former USC coach Rod Dedeaux and baseball integration advocate Lester Rodney have been elected to the Shrine of the Eternals at the Baseball Reliquary (profiled earlier this year on Dodger Thoughts).
The 2005 voting, with top runners-up:
Lester Rodney (33%)
Jackie Robinson (30%)
Rod Dedeaux (29%)
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Josh Gibson (28%)
Casey Stengel (28%)
Pete Gray (27%)
Yogi Berra (26%)
Don Zimmer (25%)
Fernando Valenzuela (24%)
Kenichi Zenimura (24%)
Ted Giannoulas (21%)
Bill James (20%)
Effa Manley (20%)
J.R. Richard (20%)
For more information, check out the Baseball Reliquary site.
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Jeff Weaver: The Surfer King (2005)
Ricky Ledee: Double or Nothing (1940)
Cesar Izturis: Hell Bent for Leather (1960) OR Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
Wilson Alvarez: The Fat Man and the Treacherous Springboard (1898)
Paul Lo Duca: Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August (1974)
Jose Valentin: The Hustler (1961)
Jeff Kent: The Strength of a Moustache (1931)
Kevin Brown: How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby (1974)
Jose Lima: Coping with Herpes, Virus of Love (1979)
Adrian Beltre: Escape of the Artful Dodger (2001)
Alex Cora: The Foul Ball Player (1940)
Paul DePodesta: Everyone Walks in L.A. (1995)
Yhency Brazoban: Yhden Miehen Sota (1973)
Vin Scully: A Voice from Heaven (1999)
Jason Phillips: L.A. on $5 a Day (1989)
Milton Bradley: Hold Your Temper (1943)
Nori Nakamura: Swing the Western Way (1947)
J.D. Drew: Beyond Vanilla (2001)
Steve Schmoll and Kelly Wunsch: Two-Man Submarine (1944)
Here's the synopsis: "The fat man is in swimming, and asks a pretty Summer girl to give him a cigarette in order that he may show her a diving trick. She is fully attired in a summer gown, but heedlessly walks out on a springboard. The fat man reaches up and pulls down the springboard in order to get the cigarette; but his hand slips, and the board flies up, throwing the Summer girl into the air and into the water with a terrific splash."
In today's Riverside Press-Enterprise DePo is even quoted as saying Aybar is a possibility.
BP (the website, not the petroleum conglomerate) rates Aybar as the 34th best prospect in baseball, which seems extremely odd, not that I'm complaining.
If the stars playing before the game aren't good enough, we'll be given a voucher to see tapes of past Hollywood Stars games when people like Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau played.
I loathe Hollywood Stars night. I don't wanna see Tony Danza before a baseball game.
34. Willy Aybar.
"Indeed, even now, most observers consider his younger brother Erick to be the better prospect. But over the past two years, Aybar has quietly begun to show the talent that made him such a hot property..."
USPS 2-3 buiness day priority(so 3-5 days usually)
Out of state start looking about tues-Wed of next week.
In state say about wed-thur(possibly earlier for O.C./L.A.)
Of course USPS could surprise but never in a good way.
i'll try to e-mail everyone as well but that is a ton of indvidual e-mails an I don't want to do one large e-mail for privacy reasons. No idea what I was getting myself into. Hope to see them at the Stadium.
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