From the old hard-luck days of the CWS:
" "If I was going to storm a pill box, going to sheer, utter, certain death, and the colonel said, "Shepherd, pick six guys," I'd pick six White Sox fans, because they have known death every day of their lives and it holds no terror for them."-- JEAN SHEPHERD
Indeed.
The first baseball game I ever went to was at Old Comiskey, and watched Dick Allen and Wilbur Wood....