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Montezuma's Revenge · Mar 10, 2008

Howard Sprague said:

I can only surmise that Derek raised issue with the story because he wanted it known publicly that he was a catcher as well as a pitcher.
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Sort of gives a new perspective to that long-standing rite of spring: "Pitchers and catchers report ...''

joe king · Mar 11, 2008

SF_Express said:

lono said:

From The Miami Herald, 12/23/86

"Last Sunday, The Herald erroneously reported that original Dolphin Johnny Holmes had been an insurance salesman in Raleigh, N.C., that he had won the New York lottery in 1982 and lost the money in a land swindle, that he had been charged with vehicular homicide and been acquitted because his mother said that she drove the car, and that he stated that the funniest thing he ever saw was Flipper spouting water on George Wilson. Each of these items was erroneous material published inadvertently. He was not an insurance salesman in Raleigh, did not win the lottery, neither he nor his mother was charged or involved in any way with a vehicular homicide, and he made no comment about Flipper or George Wilson. The Herald regrets the errors."
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The legendary story of how this happened, at least how I was told. Corrections welcome: They were doing a retrospective on the original Dolphins team (20 years back to the first one) and they did a big graphic about where everybody was in 1986. For the person/people they wanted to track everybody down, they gave them an example of what they were looking for. And they filled in all that fake stuff for Johnny Holmes.

And, of course, Johnny Holmes was somebody they didn't really find. So the fake information was never overwritten, and it ran in the paper that way.

Then, of course, they heard from Johnny Holmes.
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Pretty damned clever way to find him, I'd say.

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