[nopardons]

Interesting !

Acording to the Post article, the put the incident nehind them, and became GOOD friends, later on. :-)

[BluesDuke]

They did indeed become good friends in the years after their careers ended (and after they settled Roseboro's lawsuit). That plus a sense of right and just was, as I suggested in my piece, the reason Roseboro himself mounted the parapets on Marichal's behalf when Marichal was twice snubbed for the Hall of Fame. I only wish I had a copy of Marichal's induction speech, since he thanked Roseboro explicitly for the big boost. Marichal should have been a first-ballot, first-year-eligible Hall of Famer. He was actually a better pitcher than any other righthander of the 1960s and, had he not been all but crippled by an arthritic back (which may have developed from a bad reaction to a penicillin shot) in the early 1970s, it's not unreasonable to assume Marichal might have ended up a 300-game winner. Not that he had to. His peak from 1961-70 was argument by itself for his place in the Hall, which if I remember correctly was a point Roseboro often made while beating the drum for Marichal's election.

And to those who think he couldn't "win the big ones," make note: Juan Marichal beat the Dodgers, the Giants' prime pennant race rivals from 1960-66, twenty four times out of twenty five tries in Candlestick, and Marichal has an excellent record of pennant race pitching against his team's prime rivals in the race. [By contrast, Don Drysdale had twelve chances lifetime just to beat the team his team most needed to beat in the heat of the race and down the stretch to stay in the race or win the pennant - in 1959, the Milwaukee Braves (the Dodgers won the flag); in 1961, the Cincinnati Reds (the Reds ended up winning a surprise pennant); in 1962, the Giants (the Giants won the pennant in a vibrant playoff); in 1963, the Cardinals (who were trying to send Stan Musial off into the sunset as a winner); in 1965 and 1966, the Giants again (in 1964, the Dodgers pretty much dropped out of the race after Sandy Koufax was finished for the season with - of all things - the baserunning injury that provoked the emergence of his arthritic pitching elbow, at a point where Koufax with 19 wins had the most in the majors) - and he never won one of them. Nor was his record in the end much good against all contenders against whom the Dodgers fought for a flag.]