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Schmidt and Ashburn ask baseball to clean up its act.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 19950731
Author:Conlin, Bill
meadow where baseball's Hall of Fame stages its annual inductions was as awash with red-hatted humanity as St. Peter's Square on Easter Sunday. And on this sun-splashed afternoon in James Fenimore Cooper's town, Michael Jack Schmidt was the biggest hit anybody can remember. Not that Rich Ashburn, doing free-verse standup to Schmidt's carefully scripted speech, was a dud.
Both Phillies legends spoke to a central theme. They asked major league baseball to clean up its act before it is too late, appoint an impartial commissioner, be more fan-friendly. Our newest Hall of Famers ...
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