"Give me a mace and I'll drive the pumpkin down 's throat."
— Ping Bodie

January 1, 1970

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People from San FranciscoAmerican people of Italian descent
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Circa spring or summer 1961, when asked, at age 73, whether he could still hit; as quoted in "Has Baseball Slipped So Fast? Speed-Up, More Action Needed; Master of Cliche Could Hit" by Wilton Garrison, in The Charlotte Observer (January 21, 1962), p. 14