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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Contemporaneous accounts of Jim Rice
Wezen has it for you.
He was probably the “most feared” in 1978. Other years, Schmidt and Brett and Eddie Murray (and on and on) were more “feared”. In any case, the two stupidest arguments about the Hall of Fame ("he was the most feared of his generation”, and “he’s not rickey"), would both be embarrassing arguments in an elementary school paper; how editors decide to allow such b.s. in national media is nothing but an insult to its readership.
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Sweet stuff! I’m glad Wezen did the research on this and has brought it to light. This is the kind of thing that helps those of us who weren’t able to see him play. Much better than a B. Olney rant about him on ESPN.