The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Lawrence S. Ritter

are a lot of the old-timers still left, you know, and they’re liable to say, “That fathead, who the hell does he think he is, anyway, popping off like that!” I wouldn’t want them to say that. Because I’d rather they remember me as a pretty straight sort of a guy, you know. So that when I kick off they’ll say, “Well, good old Sam, he wasn’t such a bad guy, after all. Everything considered, he was pretty fair and square. We’ll miss him.”