St. Louis Cardinals backup catcher and resident class clown Bob Uecker on the 1964 World Series:
“And I remember as we got down near World Series time, Bing Devine, who was the Cardinals’ general manager at that time, asked me if I would do him and the Cardinals, in general, a favor. And I said I would. And he said, ‘We’d like to inject you with hepatitis. We need to bring an infielder up.’ ”
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