Posted By:
barry arnoldReading Josh's post about the Bill Terry photograph got me to reminiscing about Terry with my nephew.
I started telling him about that story Dizzy Dean would tell Pee
Wee Reese when they were commentators for baseball games.
Usually Dizzy would tell the story when he was giving commercials
for Falstaff beer or feeling the effects of the product himself---
often before singing the Wabash cannonball.
I was a boy when i heard the story and as i talked to my nephew
started wondering how much of the 'ball hit by Terry going through
Dizzy's legs (while pitching) and being caught way in the air near
the homerun fence' was based on some real fact. Or is this just great
Dizzy embellishment?
anybody know about this?
thanks,
barry