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Updated: May 21, 2025
I had never yet seen the youngster who could stand his badinage. He said a few things, then wound up with: "Come now, you cross between a hayrack and a wagon tongue, get sore and do something. Pitch if you can. Show us! Do you hear, you tow-headed Pogie!" Rube jumped as if he had been struck. His face flamed red and his little eyes turned black. He shoved his big fist under Capt. Spears' nose.
Then he hit a hard long drive straight into the centerfielder's hands. "Con, I don't know what to think, but ding me if we ain't hittin' the ball," said Spears. Then to his players: "A little more of that and we're back in our old shape. All in a minute at 'em now! Rube, you dinged old Pogie, pitch!"
Call him 'Pogie! That's a name that stirs him up." "Well, I'll be dinged! He looks it," replied Spears. "Here, Rube, get off the bench. Come here." Rube lurched toward us. He seemed to be walking in his sleep. His breast was laboring and he was dripping with sweat. "Who ever told you that you could pitch?" asked Spears genially. He was master at baseball ridicule.
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