IT WENT INTO EXTRA ROUNDS
"Mike McNally, the Cleveland Indians' farm chief, tells how his wife discovered early in their married life at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., that ball games often last extra innings.
'But she didn't know much about prize fights,' McNally added. 'So this night I went to a boxing show with a few of the boys and didn't get home until 1:30 in the morning. My bride naturally wondered what had happened to me.
''The fight,' I told her, 'lasted 43 rounds. You wouldn't want me to walk out on that kind of battle, would you?''"
-Ed McAuley in the Cleveland News (Baseball Digest, March 1953)
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