Primer Dugout (and link of the day) 11-11-2019

A collection of quotes from Pirates rookie pitcher Jack Wisner in the Pittsburgh Press, November 11, 1919:

“Put your dough on these here Pirates next season. We got that there flag in the National cinched, but them there cuckoos in that league ain’t got wise to that fact yet. They got some surprise party coming, I’ll say they has.”
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“It’s good I’m with Pittsburg at that, because Pittsburg has got a lot of smoke and my fast ball has got more smoke than Pittsburg and we’ll be a smokey pair. I’ll say we will.”
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“I got a curve ball that comes up to the plate and says ‘how do you do’ and then fades away in the catcher’s mitt if the catcher is lucky enough to have it in the right place. Then I got a slow ball which melts away from their bats if they ever are lucky enough to meet it. And I got a peach ball that Sam Crawford couldn’t hit even if his name does sound like a freestone. I’ll say I got aplenty.”

“But I sure is sorry I ain’t in the American league. They’s a lot of chesty guys in that league I’d like to set down hard and put in their right place. I sure does hate a chesty ball player; they gets on my nerves. I’ll tell the world they does.”

I think I have a new favorite player from this era.