Umpire (approaching the mound, gazing at the pitcher’s hand, which appears to have resin and turpentine): “Lefty, you’re putting a foreign substance on the ball. That’s illegal.”
Pitcher (Future Yankee broadcaster Jim Kaat): “That’s not a foreign substance. It’s made in North Carolina.”
--Quoted in Buster Olney, “The Unnaturals,” in The New York Times Book Review, April 6, 2008
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
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