Woman hit by bat in sausage race retiring

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Woman hit by bat in sausage race retiring

MILWAUKEE — Wisconsin's most famous sausage has decided to retire, but she'll always relish the memories. Mandy Block, the woman in the Italian sausage costume hit with a bat by Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Randall Simon last July, won't be in the Milwaukee Brewers' sausage races this summer.

She has decided to retire from competitive sausage racing at Miller Park to take psychology classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"It's too bad," Block told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "It kind of ended with a bang, though."

Block received attention after Simon hit her over the head with his bat as she passed by the visitors' dugout. Veronica Chandler, the hot dog who tripped over Block's fallen sausage, never ran again.

The whacking was broadcast worldwide, but Block brushed aside the controversy, accepting Simon's apology and declaring herself "just a sausage."

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She came out a weiner.

from such an all-American institution? Isn't it really clear that with all the unrest in Iraq and our unsure government, that we should all focus all our attention on some 'dizzy dame' and her antics with professional baseball! I, myself, come form a small town in the Midwest where my father was a great pitcher in numerous baseball teams, but I never would wear a sausage suit! I don't care how much money!!!