AD-VANCED AGE ITEM
"Last September, on the day before he died suddenly in Memphis, Hank DeBerry was talking about age and ball players.
'You can't tell me that a lot of minor league seasoning isn't good for a player, or that a ball player has to quit when he's thirty-five,' Hank said. 'If Dazzy Vance could get a real start when he was thirty- and I think he was actually thirty-three- why should a youngster ever give up?
'One day in Brooklyn, Casey Stengel sent Daz in to relieve after he had shagged fungoes and run all over the outfield. He was forty-two at the time, but he held the other club until late in the game. And Stengel, when he took him out, said, 'That's the trouble with you guys. You don't keep in shape.' "
-Dave Bloom in the Memphis Commercial Appeal (Baseball Digest, April 1952)
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