We was playin' the Homestead Grays in the city of Pitchburgh. Josh
[Gibson] comes up in the last of the ninth with a man on and us a run
behind. Well, he hit one. The Grays waited around and waited around,
but finally the empire rules it ain't comin' down. So we win. The
next day, we was disputin' the Grays in Philadelphia when here come
a ball outta the sky right in the glove of the Grays' center fielder.
The empire made the only possible call. "You're out, boy!" he says
to Josh. "Yesterday, in Pitchburgh."
-- Satchel Paige
Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that
Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't
seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a
doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited,
and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor,
and the doctor put some salve on it?...