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"Laraine Day, wife of Leo Durocher, talked sense. 'If I were a boy,' she said, 'I'd try for catcher. I don't want my son to be a ball player. But if he showed any aptitude, I'd recommend catching. There are so few catchers. He'd always be in demand.'
The actress is a smart cookie and her thoughts are independent of her husband's.
'I'm not sports-minded,' she protested candidly. 'But I will say for baseball that it is the only profession where you can get ahead without knowing anybody. Baseball goes and seeks you. If you live in a hamlet 100 population 200 miles from the nearest railroad, a scout will eventually find you.
'It's not that way in movies and television. I know. You can have talent to burn, but unless you know somebody or his uncle who is close to the ear of the producer, your chances are awfully bad.' "
-Will Connolly, San Francisco Chronicle (Baseball Digest, January-February 1955)
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