Now this isn't no reflection on neither of these pitchers which I hope is still friends of mine, but if I was managing a ball club in the American League, I would tell them how to pitch to this bird. I would stand on the mound and throw the first ball to first base and the second ball to second base and the third ball to third base, and then I would turn around and heave the fourth one out in right field, because he couldn't be in all those places at once, and further and more they's a rule that makes a batter stand in the batter's box and if a person pitches in that direction with this guy up why all you can say about them is that they're a sucker.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Now this isn't no reflection on neither of these pitchers which I hope is still friends of mine, but if I was managing a ball club in the American League, I would tell them how to pitch to this bird. I would stand on the mound and throw the first ball to first base and the second ball to second base and the third ball to third base, and then I would turn around and heave the fourth one out in right field, because he couldn't be in all those places at once, and further and more they's a rule that makes a batter stand in the batter's box and if a person pitches in that direction with this guy up why all you can say about them is that they're a sucker." in the context of "Ring Lardner, in "Ring Lardner's Advice on Pitching to Babe Ruth" (with reference to Ruth's 2-HR performance of May 11, 1920, victimising Chicago's Roy Wilkinson and Dickey Kerr), The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (August 8, 1920), p. C2; reprinted in The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner (2016), edited by Ron Rapoport" to mean that wisdom is timeless.