by Mean Dean » Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:28 pm
[quote:0abf168766]The old man is 143 and kind of crotchety[/quote:0abf168766]I can believe that... [url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zBUbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5EgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3131%2C5111421]he was crotchety at 44![/url]
[quote:0abf168766]When I was a player you had to serve a long apprenticeship in the minors. Breaking in with a major league club was a tough job. Furthermore, the other players, the fellows who were in ahead of you, impressed it upon your mind at the start that you had a lot of things to learn. They don’t do it that way any more.[/quote:0abf168766]
Note that this is a quote from one hundred years ago.
(Also note [url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/duffyhu01.shtml]what age Duffy himself came up at...[/url])