"Justice demands that we try to see the entire picture, analyze all the factors of a situation, before we make a judgment. It is so easy to condemn, when we see only one side. Ping Bodie, one of baseball's most famous umpires, was getting a heavy dose of razzing from the fans during a baseball game in California. Suddenly, in the middle of the game, Ping called the proceedings to a halt. He then walked over to the grandstand and climbed laboriously to the top. When he reached the top row he bellowed: "Play ball!" The bewildered managers rushed up to Ping and asked him what he thought he was doing. Ping answered: "If those guys," waving his arms at the fans, "can see better up here than I can down there, then here's where I call 'em from. "Play ball!""
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US Bureau of Naval Personnel (employing the story first recounted by Joe E Brown--see above--to make a larger point about the importance of not rushing to judgment), Because of You: United States Navy and Marine Corps character education program, series III, for forces afloat; guide lines for discussion leaders (1955), p. 175
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Ping Bodie
1911 – 1914
(October 8, 1887 – December 17, 1961), born Francesco Stephano Pezzolo, was a in who played for the (1911–1914), (1917) and (1919–1921). Bodie batted and threw right-handed. He was born in San Francisco.
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