Buck O'Neil has been a great credit to baseball. He's a friend of all of ours. He has credentials that are absolutely wonderful. (But) the committee did not elect Buck O'Neil.
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It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
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This is 10 times, maybe 50 times more difficult. I would guess it would take at least a year.
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So his choices are he can do nothing and sort of fudge it -- but you can't get away with that. The public and Congress are going to want something done. ... I've said this about Bud, and I think I'm right, his first instinct is always wrong. The second is almost always right.
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