REA: 4 Planks & 5 Magies

[JP]

I think I like it just as much because I've heard some interesting theories about why it was changed and other misspellings weren't, one of them being that Sherry was one of the few ballplayers at the time that could actually read...

[Potomac Yank]

You're proving our point.

[JP]

Originally Posted by Potomac Yank

You're proving our point.

What point? I'm entitled to whatever opinion I'd like as to what I find interesting and what I don't. You aren't a sophisticate or better educated just because you happen to have a differing opinion. Am I not supposed to find the Magie error interesting?

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by JP

I think I like it just as much because I've heard some interesting theories about why it was changed and other misspellings weren't, one of them being that Sherry was one of the few ballplayers at the time that could actually read...

Got a cite for that?

[JP]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Got a cite for that?

Yup, heard (read) it on these very forums. Search for it if you'd like to find it, but it's here somewhere...

[Potomac Yank]

And don't hold your breath about the Magee/Magie reading site ... let JP talk.

[JP]

Originally Posted by Potomac Yank

And don't hold your breath about the Magee/Magie reading site ... let JP talk.

Nice attitude, especially since 4 minutes prior I already told him where I read it...

[slidekellyslide]

Well, I don't recall anyone on this site saying that and I imagine trying to find that in the archives won't be easy. I'll take your word that you heard it here, but right now I'll call BS on the story. I doubt there was a single ballplayer illiterate or not that did not know how to at the very least correctly spell his own name. Joe Jackson was illiterate, but contrary to popular belief he could write his name.

[JP]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. NO WHERE do I state that the story is factual. I just said I heard an interesting story, and it WAS on these forums. I honestly know NOTHING about the state of literacy at the time, so I cant speak to that point. When I'm not on my iPhone I'll try searching for it. Know any search function tricks?

[Potomac Yank]

Asked to back up his BS, and he produces a nebulous nada, and prays that you take it as a fact.

Will someone please break it gently to JP that Christy Matthewson was not the only ball player from that period to go to college.

Lad, you couldn't cut it where I come from.

[Jim VB]

Kudos to Dan B, for using "cite" and "site" in back to back posts and getting them correct! You rarely see that on the internet!

Now who's making fun of the Cornhuskers?!!!!

[JP]

Potomac, try not to be jerk. I already told you that it was mentioned in these forums, and I'm not educated enough on the subject to give my own opinion. Look for the post yourself and then you can berate whoever the author was...