FORE-FLUSH!
"Paul Waner, the Pittsburgh Pirates' Hall-of-Famer who now is batting coach for the Milwaukee Braves, was, and still is, quite a man with a golf club.
He recently recalled that when he played with the Pirates the club had a rule that the players were not allowed to play golf during the season. There was a $50 fine for offenders.
Manager Pie Traynor and Coach Jewel Ens enforced the rule stringently, but Waner always found a way to beat it.
'One day I went out to play a round at South Hills with some friends,' he reminisces.
'Just to assure that I wouldn't be caught, I had a friend call Traynor and tip him off that was playing golf at Fox Chapel.
'Traynor and Ens hurried out to Fox Chapel and went all over the course looking for me. They even went over to the Pittsburgh Field Club, thinking I might be there.
'The next day Ens told me about the 'tip' they got that I was out at Fox Chapel.
' 'Sure, I was out there,' I said.
' 'Well, we couldn't find you,' he said.
' 'Did you look in the bar?' I asked. When he said 'No,' I said, 'Well, that's where I was!' '
It might be that Traynor is learning what happened that day for the first time."
-Ray Kienzl, Pittsburgh Star-Telegraph (Baseball Digest, July 1957)
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