"After Bodie left the majors, he got a job umpiring in a little league in California. The fans were riding him hard one day when he stopped the game, climbed to the top row of the grandstand, sat down and hollered, "Play ball!" Both the astonished managers stuck their faces against the screen and asked him what was the big idea. "If those guys can see better up here than I can from down here, then here's where I call 'em from," he roared. "Play ball!""
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Joe E. Brown, circa summer 1947, speaking with Jack Clarke in the Chicago Sun; as quoted in "Roundy Says," The Wisconsin State Journal (August 9, 1947), p. 6
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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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