Walter O'Malley was the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers and after the 1957 season, he moved the team to Los Angeles. This broke the hearts of millions.A few years later, a Brooklyn fan was asked this question:
If you had a gun with only two bullets, and Hitler, Mussolini and Walter O'Malley were standing in front of you, who would you shoot?
"I'd shoot O'Malley twice," was the response.
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Baseball writer to Red Sox catcher Tony Pena: "How do you pitch Jose Canseco?"
ReplyDeletePena: "Hard stuff high and inside, curves low and away."
Writer: "How do you pitch Mark McGwire?"
Pena: "Hard stuff high and inside, curves low and away."
Writer: "How do you pitch to God?"
Pena: "Hard stuff high and inside, curves low and away. And He knows it's coming."
This was a real conversation between Pena and my friend Bill Barton around the batting cage at Fenway Park.