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Post by CeciliaTan on May 16, 2005 15:51:47 GMT -5
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Post by goodad on May 17, 2005 13:55:04 GMT -5
Interesting how the article said nothing about how the melee' started.
Isn't this the brawl that was precipitated by racial slurs made by a member of the bowling club against Ellie, to which Hank, taking offense, followed the perptrator into the men's room and pummeled him?
Or, perhaps political correctness wasn't in vogue at the time. To anyone but Mr. Bauer anyway.
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Post by yankeefan on May 17, 2005 17:09:54 GMT -5
Kicking somesone's butt is never politically correct but sometimes it is absolutely the right thing to do.
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Post by CeciliaTan on May 19, 2005 22:08:09 GMT -5
Interesting how the article said nothing about how the melee' started. Isn't this the brawl that was precipitated by racial slurs made by a member of the bowling club against Ellie, to which Hank, taking offense, followed the perptrator into the men's room and pummeled him? Yes, that's the story that is now told, anyway. Though I've heard it told that the racial slurs were being made at Sammy Davis Jr. who was performing, and the Yankees didn't take kindly to it. Here's an excerpt of what Harvey Frommer wrote about it: 'Mickey Mantle recalled what happened: "Two bowling teams came in to celebrate their victories. Sammy Davis, Jr. was the entertainer. They kept calling him Little Black Sambo and stuff like that. Billy and Hank kept telling them a couple of times to sit down. They kept standing up. The next thing I knew was that the cloak room was filled with people swinging. I was so drunk I didn't know who threw the first punch. A body came flying out and landed at my feet. At first I thought it was Billy (Martin) so I picked him up. But when I saw it wasn't I dropped him back down. It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face."' From www.allsports.com/mlb/yankees/frommer12.htm-ctan
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