quote:Originally posted by justbaseball:
Whats his beef with Rose? Same stuff as me?
Feller is adamant that Rose never be inducted into the hall of fame. Here is one quick anecdote I found on the Internet but there are other incidents where they have publicly feuded:
quote:It was an up-and-down week for Cincinnati Reds announcer Marty Brennaman, newly elected to the Hall of Fame, and Johnny Bench, the Reds' Hall of Fame catcher.
The two were radio partners in Cincinnati for "Bench and Brennaman on Baseball," a five-minute spot that aired mornings on WLW-AM (700), but Brennaman's induction speech at ceremonies in Cooperstown, N.Y., on July 23 sparked a seemingly irreconcilable split.
The night before the ceremonies, Bench approached his partner and said that several old-timers, led by the cantankerous Bob Feller, would walk out if Brennaman endorsed Pete Rose's inclusion in the hall during his speech. (Rose, who became ineligible for election when he was banned from the game in 1989 for gambling, is campaigning for reinstatement.)