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These is a real excerpt from an Associated Press dispatch inadvertently sent out to newspaper sports departments on January 7th, 2004. The full list included home phone numbers for hundreds of current and former professional athletes, managers, and coaches from a wide variety of sports, as well as team owners, league officials, agents, lawyers, news outlets, and media rating companies.

Many of the entries on the list are obviously out-of-date; some of the people included, such as former Anaheim Angels owner Gene Autry, have passed away. I am sure most of them have changed their numbers by now if they were not out of date at the time of publication.

The transmission of the list was soon followed by a second dispatch advising recipients to “Disregard” the previous dispatch.

According to the Los Angeles Times: An AP spokesman called it an “inadvertent transmission.”
Said Times Sports Editor Bill Dwyre: “Knowing [AP sports editor] Terry Taylor, there’s going to be an opening in her department.”