Try and Stop Me

Here’s a bit of a cute anecdote about Dizzy Dean before he became a pro pitcher.

It’s from Bennett Cerf’s column in 1959.

Dizzy Dean, one of the all-time baseball greats, tells this story
on himself. When he was pitching for an Arkansas hillbilly nine in
his salad days, a rival outfit, determined to undo him, sprinkled
broken blass around the mound. Diz, barefoot, hurled six shutout
innings without a squawk, but then he stalked over to the rival
manager and grumbled, “Joe, you just gotta get this broken
glass away from here. It’s cuttin’ up the ball!”

Try and Stop Me