THE FISH HAD TURNED A LITTLE PAIL!
"Baseball's best fish story concerns the time Joe DiMaggio, Eddie Lopat and Snuffy Stirnweiss framed Joe Page.
Page and the other Yankees had gone ocean fishing and Page fell asleep in the angler's chair. Quietly, the others baited his line with a bucket.
Page woke suddenly, screaming, 'I got one, I got one!' For an hour he tugged furiously on the line. He never caught on that the skipper, cleverly speeding up and slowing down the engines, was giving him the business.
He finally got the bucket on the surface but still thought he had a fish and screamed at DiMaggio: 'Look at the size of this one's mouth!' "
-Pat Harmon, the Cincinnati Post (Baseball Digest, June 1958)
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