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NOTABLE? Anon believes it merits consideration.
Yeah, AJ pushed through the crowd surrounding Gen. Flynn and patted him on the back like AJ was a VIP. As an aside, was standing next to Billy Martin long ago, we and a couple others were talking, and a guy did the same thing. Billy knocked him cold with one punch and didn't miss a beat in our conversation.
Yeah, I know. Gen. Flynn can't be doing what Billy did. Just related a story what Billy did do under almost the exact circumstances.
The only baseball player who ever got a feature story in Ring Magazine. One thing Billy couldn't take were pompous asses. He coached the Twins and got fired? Why? He knocked one of the owners onto the buffet table at the Christmas Party.
They were originally called the Pennsylvania Deutsch. Deutsch was difficult for non-German speakers to pronounce, especially when looking at the printed word. Over the years the non-German speakers change the sound from Deutsch to Dutch. Been that way ever since.