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Old 04-20-2007, 07:30 PM
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Posted By: John Kalafarski

Dizzy Dean. The last of his breed: ". . . a hick--but he felt great about himself. . . a happy rube. . . Dizzy was beloved because he represented something which no longer could be seen first-hand on a Sunday drive. People of his ilk dominated television in the 1960s--the Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Gomer Pyle, Petticoat Junction, and Andy Griffith's village of gentle rubes. We watched them because they had been a part of who we were for 150 years, and we missed them." Nice. Now, gang, where is this passage from?

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