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...killed! I'm blind! It's broke open my chest! I'm covered with blood! somebody help me!" The only help he got was a horse laugh. Only Casey could have pulled the stunt and gotten away with...
Brooklyn Gets the Bird. Two years later, Casey was traded to Pittsburgh...
Brooklyn fans, who had learned to love him, cheerfully razzed him the first time he turned up at Ebbets Field in an enemy uniform. Casey understood, but he saw a chance to get even. Out in the field in the first inning, he watched a Dodger in the bullpen catch a sparrow. He borrowed the stunned bird and slipped it under...
...could feel it breathing as I hustled to bat," he recalls, "or maybe it was smothering from inhaling dandruff." Anyway, Casey walked to the batter's box brandishing five bats as if he were going to knock down the ballpark. The stands booed. Casey stepped to the plate, waited until the pitcher was about to throw, then called time. Elaborately he went through the motions of getting a cinder out of his eye. The Brooklyn stands roared with fury...
...Casey caught his cue. He stepped toward the crowd, bowed low to his former fans, and removed his cap with a wide, sweeping gesture. Revived, the sparrow took off and headed toward Canarsie. There was a sudden silence. Seconds later, Ebbets Field rocked with laughter. Casey had given Brooklyn the bird...