Quote of the day

Doug Melvin, then the Baltimore Orioles’ assistant general manager, on giving end-of-season travel expenses in 1990 to 36-year-old minor league pitcher Daniel Boone:

“We gave all the other guys gas money. We gave him covered wagon money.”

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