With a pun on the great baseball book, The Glory of Their Times, Bill Schaefer treats us today with an extensive collection of some of the greatest lines of baseball humor and wisdom...
"I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said I hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink." -Casey Stengel
As promised, here's Part Two of my feature on "Old Baseball Ads." We had a lot of fun with Part One, with some of the readers sending me ads that they found themselves....
"You shoeless sonofagun you!” –A fan yelling at 20-year old Greenville Spinner outfielder, Joseph Jackson, who was playing that day in his stocking feet...
Let’s be honest. It’s hard to find a connection between Baseball and Thanksgiving. The great American family tradition of “Turkey Day” falls in that “no man’s land” between the last pitch of the World Series and the first pitch of spring training...
It’s been a long while since I featured ballplayers and their wives, so now’s a good time to shine our baseball spotlight on Hall-of-Famer, Lefty Gomez and his marriage to the beautiful actress, June O'Dea...
Let’s face it…One of the newer and better innovations to come along in baseball is allowing managers to appeal umpires’ calls. It's added a lot to the game, including the dimension of actually getting plays correct!...
"You shoeless sonofagun you!” –A fan yelling at 20-year old Greenville Spinner outfielder, Joseph Jackson, who was playing that day in his stocking feet.
And the rest, as they say, is history...
"Ah...You can't beat fun at the old ball park!"
As Harry Caray used to say! Who knows, this was before a game a Ebbets Field, and if the Dodgers were playing the Cardinals, Harry might have even been there!