?Powel Crosley Jr., owner of the Cincinnati Redlegs:
"I'm liable to wove the Redlegs. Every other club in the National League
would love to see us move to New York."
? Frank Leahy, when asked by a clerk in a Chicago
hospital what occupation she should list on his admission card: "Just put
down that I'm a traveling man."
? Slater Martin, St. Louis Hawks basketball player, as
quoted by Robert L. Byrnes in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "The toughest
part of the job of guarding Bob Cousy in that it's such a temptation to stand
back and admire him."
? Frank Shaughnessy, president of the International
League, commenting on a major league proposal to televise Sunday baseball
games: "If they blanket us with television on Sunday, the best day we have,
then we're finished."
? Eddie Arcaro, as reported by Joe Hyams in the New York
Herald Tribune, reluctantly replying to a friend's question if he were a
millionaire: "I am, unless I got short-changed during the past 24
hours."