On his website in an addendum to a recent article on bad teams signing bad players, Sports Illustrated writer, Jeff Pearlman offers the following:
"PS: A side note: I was thinking this morning about Pudge Rodriguez. A bunch of years ago, I visited Pudge's house in Miami. He was friendly and nice and sorta dull, but two things stand out: First, he had a ton of books in his library - stuff like biographies of FDR and Lincoln; profiles of great debates, etc. I picked up one of the books to read through it - and the pages were empty. One hundred percent empty. All the books. They were merely for show, brought in by some interior decorator. Second, in his backyard, he had an enormous bronze statue of...Pudge Rodriguez. In catching garb."
I knew about the statue.
With regards to the "books" or more accurately book bindings with paper in them, leave Pudge alone, will ya?!
If he had used real books, he would have deprived them from people who really wanted to read them. It's a selfless act. A "win win" for all sides.
Menacing looking guys on baseball cards don't need no stinkin books! Get off his back!
First and last warning.
