Besides, "Teddy's Frozen Custard" Just Sounds Wrong



from ESPN :

Mickey Mantle is still a New York fixture.

A day after the owner of Mickey Mantle's restaurant said he would change the establishment's name to Ted Williams' and make employees wear Red Sox uniforms during the World Series, he admitted the idea was a joke.

"It's was tongue-in-cheek and I wanted to have fun with things ... poking fun at the Sox that they still don't have a Series," Bill Liederman said on the Dan Patrick Show on ESPN Radio. "I have 15 messages on my machine today ... some are death threats. I'm here to say that if the Mantle family was offended in any way by this ... we do apologize."

No truth to the rumor, by the way, that Rusty Staub's midtown eatery was to be renamed "Pumpsie's". Mostly because the place has been closed for years, but also because I made it up.

Posted: Sat - October 23, 2004 at 08:07 AM      

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