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10-24-2002 - 4:35 p.m.

Priceless

Mastercard has been hyping their �Baseball�s Most Memorable Moment� promo since way back to the All-Star game. It's been a fun trip down memory lane, although any one person's most memorable moment is totally subjective. I mean baseball�s finest moment obviously is George Brett�s 3 homeruns off Goose Gossage in the 3rd game of the 1980 ALC to beat the Yankees to play for a chance to lose to the Philllies in Series and THAT moment wasn�t even nominated. But you can bet I stuffed the ballot box for George. And that is my point; your most memorable moment is personal. I never saw Ted Williams, the Babe or Joe DiMaggio play, but George was 10 year old Justin's personal hero

Surprisingly, or maybe not, Baseball�s most memorable moment�according to the people who are still alive and have access to computers to vote...turns out to be Cal Ripkin showing up for work everyday and breaking Lou Gehrig�s record of 2,131 consecutive games. I like Cal well enough, he was the first of the superstar shortstops, but give me a break. I know an ICU nurse named Franny who hasn�t missed a day of work in 30 years

That�s right, 30 years and Franny isn�t paid nearly as well as Cal was and she worked 12 hr shifts, even on Christmas. Talk about priceless

It was good to see the fans on their feet screaming for Pete Rose. Pete may not be in the Hall of Fame anymore, but Pete is in the heart of every fan because Pete is loud, obnoxious and played really hard. Bud Selig looked positively green and nauseated last night when Pete was getting the big ovation and the fans were chanting �Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame�. You want a memorable moment, Mastercard, how about last night>?

Or maybe it was that time Alex Rodriguez and I stripped naked and rolled around together on a pile of his $252 million dollars in center field. Oh wait, that was one of my most memorable baseball fantasies and didn't really happen, sorry.

Seriously, baseball�s most memorable and politically correct moment should have been Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier. We might admire Cal�s work ethics and the individual achievements of players like Nolan Ryan, Hank Aaron and Mark McGwire, but the American and baseball was changed for the better because of the courage of Jackie Robinson



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