Which reminds me of the famous story about Casey Stengel doing a TV interview with Lindsey Nelson at the end of Spring Training in the Mets' first season. Stengel was asked to run through the lineup. He rattled off the names until he got to the left fielder, and could not think of his name. He said, "We got five or six fellas is doing very excellent...and the best played for Rogers Hornby in Cincinnatti..." Casey described the player, recited his whole history, who he played for, how many kids he had, what kind of car he drove to spring training; everything but his name until finally, after 12 minutes of these details, finally Casey said, "If he can hit for us like he hit for Hornsby, he'd ring the bell -- and that's his name, Gus Bell!"
(This story is from "Backstage at the Mets," by Lindsey Nelson with Al Hirshberg, published in 1966.)
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Which reminds me of the famous story about Casey Stengel doing a TV interview with Lindsey Nelson at the end of Spring Training in the Mets' first season. Stengel was asked to run through the lineup. He rattled off the names until he got to the left fielder, and could not think of his name. He said, "We got five or six fellas is doing very excellent...and the best played for Rogers Hornby in Cincinnatti..." Casey described the player, recited his whole history, who he played for, how many kids he had, what kind of car he drove to spring training; everything but his name until finally, after 12 minutes of these details, finally Casey said, "If he can hit for us like he hit for Hornsby, he'd ring the bell -- and that's his name, Gus Bell!"
(This story is from "Backstage at the Mets," by Lindsey Nelson with Al Hirshberg, published in 1966.)
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