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Didn't Jim Boutin, in Ball Four, write that he saw former Yankee teammate Pepitone use a blow dryer on his hair, post game, sometime in the mid-60's. And hasn't Pepitone been credited with being the first MLBer to bring said dryer into the lockerroom. I'm sure that is right.
So perhaps it was Pepitone that began the inexorable process where machines have destroyed much of what is good and sacred in baseball, despite the great efforts of Pat Gillick and Z.
Radar guns, aluminum bats, $6 beers, "Disco Night" at Comiskey Park: Eddie Gaedel would have turned over in his grave.
To think that Joe Pepitone may have been to blame for all of it!
Say it ain't so Joe!
I know, I know! Wrong Joe, but you get my drift.
moe