[Scott from the Left Coast]

Pre-All Star Break enjoyment. Enjoy. After reading this can there be any doubt why baseball is etched so deeply into our national psyche? Can there be any doubts about anything?

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[stylin19a]

Mr. Mantle: My views are about the same as Casey's.

bwahahahaha

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Pinging baseball fans to some of the greatest baseball humor of all-time.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Pinging Hobbit Holers over to some of the greatest baseball humor of all-time (a personal vanity). Who'd I miss on my ping??? I know I missed some...

[commandante_zero]

Can there be any doubts about anything?

Only about whacking people in hot dog costumes.

[RonF]

I think Mantle had the best line.

[N. Theknow]

One of my fondest memories of the Old Perfesser was when Bill Veeck had fireworks installed in the scoreboard at the old Comiskey Park in Chicago and they were set off whenever a White Sox player hit a homerun.

I forget who the player, John Blanchard seems to ring a bell, was on the Yankees that hit a homerun and Casey had the players on the bench come out and run around the on deck circle and home plate with sparklers in their hands.

In the National League, The St. Louis Cardinals in Sportsman's Park had a large A-B emblem with the eagle in it that would light up and the eagle would flap its wings whenever one of the Cardinals would hit a hoer. A redbird swinging a bat would hit a large neon ball and it would go across the scoreboard and light up another neon ball with the words "It's A Hit!" whenever they would even get a single.

Casey also found a sparrow in the dugout one day when they were playing on the road and put it under his cap before going to the mound to have a little talk with Whitey Ford. On his way back to the dugout someone that had been heckling him all day gave him the raspberry and Casey tipped his cap and the bird flew out. The guy was so stunned he never said another word for the rest of the game.

[Mr. Mojo]

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