Baseball dinner party

[FrankWakefield]

For some, what is fun changes as they get older and older. I could laugh all night and wake up hangover free the next day. That sounds fun to me.

[Musashi]

I bet you could get an interesting evening of conversation from this group:

Jimmy Piersall
Jay Johnstone
Bill "Spaceman" Lee

[ejharrington]

I have to think about the other two, but Kevin Millar is definitely on the list.

[esd10]

Mathewson, jake daubert and probably joe kelley

[todeen]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

For some, what is fun changes as they get older and older. I could laugh all night and wake up hangover free the next day. That sounds fun to me.

I was never into partying, even in college. But intramural sports all day tournaments.... couldn't stay long enough. Watching Ken Burns documentaries? yes please.

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[switcher7]

Mickey Mantle
Casey Stengel
Phil Rizzuto

[michael3322]

Great thread topic.

Ruth
Paige
and
Berg

"On December 18, 1944, a 42-year-old man masquerading as a Swiss physics student settled his 6-foot-1 frame into a chair in a Zurich lecture hall. Instead of simply listening to the brilliant insights offered by the physicist at the podium, the man was trying to understand enough of the scientist’s native German to identify key words—words that could change, or perhaps even destroy, the world. All the while, he was hoping the gun tucked into his jacket pocket wouldn’t fall out, as it had during his trip across the Atlantic.

The audience member was no ordinary student. In fact, he wasn’t a student at all. He was a retired baseball player named Morris “Moe” Berg, and the American government wanted him to assassinate a man dubbed “the most dangerous possible German in the field” of physics: Werner Heisenberg, director of the Nazi nuclear program.

An average-at-best catcher who played well past his prime, Berg joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to the CIA, in 1943. Nicknamed the “brainiest man in baseball” due to his knack for languages and quick wit, he found himself behind enemy lines five years after he hung up his cleats for the last time. A polymath who loved the press but was reluctant to discuss his personal life, he was a man of contradictions who crossed paths with many of the leading figures of the day, from Babe Ruth to Franklin D. Roosevelt to J. Robert Oppenheimer."

Smithsonian Magazine

[bmattioli]

Mantle

Rose

Wade Boggs

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by bmattioli

Mantle

Rose

Wade Boggs

We are close.

Wade Boggs
Doc Ellis
Pete Rose

Those 3 cover 3 of the big vices.

[mrreality68]

I would do Joe Jackson, Billie Martin, and Pete Rose