LOOK, MOM, NO FEET!
"Nick Cullop, the veteran minor league manager, tells this one about one of his five major league trials as a player.
'Back in the middle 1920's I hung on with the Yankees a while in the spring,' Nick says. 'We were going into St. Louis to play the Browns and a lot of folks from my home town, Weldon Springs, a little place about 35 miles from St. Louis, decided to come to one of the games and give me a present. They wrote Miller Huggins, the manager, about it and he started me that day.
'The first time up I doubled and slid into second. Then late in the game I was on base again, on second, and Bob Meusel singled and I slid into home to score.
'That night I went home with my mother and daddy to eat supper and I was struttin' pretty good after getting those hits. My mom, she knew nothin' about baseball, though; that was the first game she ever saw. I asked her how she liked it, if she didn't think I looked pretty good.
' 'You were all right, son,' she said, 'except for being so awkward, falling down those two times.' ' "
-Fred Russell, Nashville Banner (Baseball Digest, May 1957)
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