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8. Casey Stengel would get to the Happy Swallow bar in Framingham Center and tell stories for the rest of the afternoon, and you could look it up.

TWO TEAMS THAT DID NOT WIN A PENNANT IN 1933 DESPITE HAVING FOUR HALL OF FAMERS PITCH FOR THEM

1. New York Yankees (2nd): Lefty Gomez, Red Ruffing, Herb Pennock, Babe Ruth.

2. St. Louis Cardinals (5th): Dizzy Dean, Dazzy Vance, Burleigh Grimes, Jesse Haines.

Haines, Grimes (both 39) and Vance (42) won 15 games among them. Ruth, 38, won his only start—his second pitching appearance in 12 years—despite giving up 12 hits and five runs.

AN ALL-STAR TEAM OF PLAYERS BORN ON APRIL FOOL'S DAY

1b—Willie Montanez, 1948
2b—Rod Kanehl, 1934
3b—Dick Kenworthy, 1941
ss—Murray Franklin, 1914
of—Rusty Staub, 1944
of—Claude Cooper, 1892
of—Jeff Heath, 1915
c—Bill Friel, 1876
rhp—Phil Niekro, 1939
lhp—Ron Perranoski, 1936
mgr—Hugo Bezdek, 1884

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S 15 BEST BASEBALL QUOTES
(No Comedy of Errors)

Although baseball was not invented until 250 years after the Elizabethan Age, one can find several references to it in the plays of Shakespeare. There's no record of the Immortal Bard having played for the Avon Hotspurs, but the old boy seems to have been familiar with diamond jargon. Harvey Sabinson, executive director of the League of New York Theaters and Producers, Broadway's equivalent of the Commissioner's Office, found these references to our national pastime while skimming the Bard's complete works one night.

1. "Quick, quick, good hands."—Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene 2.