Baseball's boozers
The game of baseball has had some legendary boozehounds. I found some great quotes from baseball people regarding drinking and those who drink.
Source: Baseball Babylon by Dan Gutman
"I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball." - Sam McDowell
"Either he was out very late or he was out very early." - Casey Stengel, commenting on legendary drunkard Don Larsen after he had wrecked his car at dawn during spring training in 1956.
"To say that Horace (Stoneham) can drink is like saying that Frank Sinatra can sing." - Leo Durocher
"It's not so bad. It's a great place to meet women." - Bob Welch, about The Meadows, the Arizona clinic where he underwent alcohol rehabilitation, 1980.
"As long as I could pitch a little, no one cared that I was getting drunk." - Don Newcombe
"How dare you belittle my drinking!" - Pitcher Red Evans to Leo Durocher, after the manager suggested that Evans was drunk after drinking six beers, 1939.
"Pure elixir of malt and hops, beats all the drugs and all the drops." - 'Smiling' Mickey Welch's formula for his pitching success, 1890s.
"Drink beer, like a real man, not any more of that milk!" - Boston pitcher Roger Clemens, heckling recovering alcoholics Bob Welch and Dennis Eckersley, 1988.
"Whenever the ball looks like this - ooo - take a chance on the middle one." - Advice to Reds players in a Cincinnati newspaper, 1903.
Source: Baseball Babylon by Dan Gutman
"I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball." - Sam McDowell
"Either he was out very late or he was out very early." - Casey Stengel, commenting on legendary drunkard Don Larsen after he had wrecked his car at dawn during spring training in 1956.
"To say that Horace (Stoneham) can drink is like saying that Frank Sinatra can sing." - Leo Durocher
"It's not so bad. It's a great place to meet women." - Bob Welch, about The Meadows, the Arizona clinic where he underwent alcohol rehabilitation, 1980.
"As long as I could pitch a little, no one cared that I was getting drunk." - Don Newcombe
"How dare you belittle my drinking!" - Pitcher Red Evans to Leo Durocher, after the manager suggested that Evans was drunk after drinking six beers, 1939.
"Pure elixir of malt and hops, beats all the drugs and all the drops." - 'Smiling' Mickey Welch's formula for his pitching success, 1890s.
"Drink beer, like a real man, not any more of that milk!" - Boston pitcher Roger Clemens, heckling recovering alcoholics Bob Welch and Dennis Eckersley, 1988.
"Whenever the ball looks like this - ooo - take a chance on the middle one." - Advice to Reds players in a Cincinnati newspaper, 1903.
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