HE SHOULD DROP DEAD ALREADY
"They tell this story on George Stallings, who managed the 'Miracle Braves' of 1914. Seems that he once used a third-string catcher who, fielding a bunt, struck a base runner on the head with his throw to first base. The runner continued to third after the ball caromed off his noggin and the catcher was fired. When the backstop complained to Stallings, 'Gee you can't fire me because of one bad throw,' the colorful manager replied, 'I'm not firing you because you hit the runner in the head, I'm canning you because he was able to go to third base. When a catcher of mine can't kill a man with a peg on the head, he's finished.' "
-Francis Stann, the Washington Star (Baseball Digest, January-February 1955)
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