[cricket]

"I never realized that Neanderthals were a race."

Well, monkeys are not a race either; but who was it that said a ball player was like a 'little monkey'; and that was his last day at work. . .

[M Kehoe]

.but who was it that said a ball player was like a 'little monkey'; and that was his last day at work. . .

Probably, Jimmy the Greek.

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[mollynme]

but who was it that said a ball player was like a 'little monkey'; and that was his last day at work. .

Howard Cosell in 1983 referring to Washington Redskins receiver Alvin Garrett.

[swany]

But if he called the whole interracial team little monkeys, would he have lost his job?

[republicofdavis]

"Well, monkeys are not a race either; but who was it that said a ball player was like a 'little monkey'; and that was his last day at work. . ."

It was Howard Cosell and it wasn't his last day at work