DANGER SIGN
"Dutch Ruether is one of Charlie Grimm's favorite people and used to be a southpaw who was straight arsenic to the former Cub manager.
'I never could hit him at all,' Grimm recalled. 'He'd throw his arms around his head and then the ball'd be in on me. One day I decided to start swinging when he got his hand over his head and I hit a pop fly the third baseman caught near the box.
'Next time I came up Dutch walked off the mound and I thought he was going to talk to his catcher. Instead, he stopped in front of me and said, in his hoarse voice,
''Get ready to go down.'
''Me go down? What are you going to dust me for? I never got a hit off you in my life,' I answered.
''Yeah, but you're going to start hitting me,' Ruether muttered and walked back to the box.''"
-Francis J. Powers in the Chicago Daily News (Baseball Digest, February 1950)
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