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Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty
That was my exact quote. I didn't say that Rizzuto played in that game, but that he played for the club that year, as did Slaughter.
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C'mon now, be honest: we can see what you wrote. Here's the sequence:
greymule wrote: "Without looking it up, name the eight (future) Hall-of-Famers who played."
KF wrote: "I don't need to look them up, nor did I need to look them up last night during the game when the subject came up. And I won't spoil it for everybody by rattling them all off. But a couple beside the obvious guys: Phil Rizzuto hung on to play for the '56 Yanks, as did Enos Slaughter. "
Maybe you didn't mean to say Rizzuto and Slaughter played in the game, but it is what you wrote. Claiming a partial quote as your exact quote, and distorting thereby the meaning is, well, spinning.
By the way, I agree with your comment that the notion of a perfect game wasn't widely known at that time. I listened to that game over the speaker system at my grade school (don't think that would happen today!), and until the reading the next morning's paper, we just thought it was a (mere) no-hitter.