[2Trievers]

Nice one Babe! &;-)

This game will not be easy.
There'll be trouble, there'll be strife
To make the winning runs, my boy.
For this game is played on the field of life.

So stand behind your team, my boy.
There'll be many who'll applaud.
Just remember that you're the player,
And the umpire here is God.

From: LIFE
by Jim "Mudcat" Grant

[BluesDuke]

Ah, Jim (Mudcat) Grant...

Sandy Koufax is the greatest pitcher alive. And maybe dead. The only thing I can do better than Koufax is sing and dance. - Mudcat Grant (who did work as a professional singer in the offseasons; his group was called Mudcat and the Kittens).

I thought those guys couldn't hit. They must have doctored their stats. - Grant, after the Dodgers won the 1965 World Series against his Twins.

[BluesDuke]

Did you know: Mudcat Grant was actually discovered by Fred Merkle...that Fred Merkle (his baserunning mistake resulted in a tie and a makeup game that may or may not have cost the New York Giants the 1908 pennant), who was working as a bird dog scout for the Cleveland Indians. Naturally, the Indians, who never saw a good prospect they could part with, traded Grant to the Twins in mid-1964, and the Mudcat only joined up with Jim (Kitty) Kaat to pitch the Twins to the 1965 World Series...