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THEY SAID IT...
January 06, 1958
?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."
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January 06, 1958

They Said It...

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?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."

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