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My friend Jon Kerr interviewed Coleman & Griffith in 1990 for his book “Calvin’s Last Dinosaur.” (Kindle/Amazon link, it’s cheap/free: amazon.com/Calvin-Basebal…). This was 12 years after Waseca & 6 years after Calvin sold the Twins. A few quotes from it: 1/ #griffithstatue
2/ Coleman went to Griffith’s Waseca speech with his father-in-law; he had neither tape recorder or pen/paper. “After the first couple of comments I realized I’m just gonna have to start salting some of these away because I’d never heard anybody talk like this.” #griffithstatue
3/ Griffith: “[T]hey got that writer down there that had to be sensational & intimated things I didn’t say. I was shocked as hell. If I had a gun I would’ve shot the sonofabitch. I woulda shot Coleman. But you can’t do that or you go to jail.” #griffithstatue
