"'Ping' was worth more to him than many base hits.[...] But the name could not confer immortality upon Bodie. He has passed out of the big show and today we read a one-line newspaper item under a San Francisco date line: "Ping Bodie has ben suspended for one day and fined $10 for punching a spectator." . What could be more ignoble than a $10 fine? The mighty Babe Ruth is called upon to pay fifty times that amount for doing no more than throw sand at an umpire. It is a little as if , the notorious, should be cited for disorderly conduct and required to report regularly to a probation officer."
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Heywood Broun, "Cutting the Heart of the Plate," The Judge (August 12, 1922), p. 9
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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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