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From: csc@watmath.UUCP (Computer Sci Club)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Detroit World Series Ring scam?
Message-ID: <14931@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Jun-85 00:24:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: watmath.14931
Posted: Sat Jun  8 00:24:13 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Jun-85 03:41:45 EDT
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Reply-To: csc@watmath.UUCP (Computer Sci Club)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <163@mb2c.UUCP> mlt@mb2c.UUCP (Mark L. Tompkins) writes:
>> ..............................................."World Series ring scandal
>> rocks Detroit".
>   
>I think the whole thing is totally stupid.  Our wonderful general manager
>should be hung by his you-know-what for this.  The local radio stations have
>had a great time with this one.  One has been running a commercial which goes
>something like this:
>  
>"Yes folks, you too can now own a genuine World Series ring, just like those
>given to some of the World Champion Tigers!  Made of the finest 6 carat gold,
>with a genuine cut glass stone!  Order direct from Jim Campbell Marketing, Inc.
>An $80.00 value - yours for only $280.00!! Call soon -they're going fast!!!
>ACT NOW!!!!!!!!"
>  
>What a moron.
>  
>Mark Tompkins
>epsilon!mb2c!mlt

Look at the bright side:  I'll be amazed if Campbell will have the opportunity
to make the same mistake again this year...

            W   L    Pct  Strk  GB
Toronto    36  16   .692   5W   --
Baltimore  29  22   .569   1L   6 1/2
Detroit    27  24   .529   2L   8 1/2

This year, *TORONTO* gets the rings.

Gilles Dignard
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario