“All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.” — Casey Stengel
Truth be told, my dad watched a lot of sports when we were growing up, but I don’t recall him electing to watch nearly as many baseball games as football games. That may just be the fuzzy memory of youth, of course – a detail that at the time wasn’t important to note. He did watch baseball mostly so that he could have sports happening somewhere in the vicinity while he read. Baseball was, in his opinion, perfect for reading.
However, I do know that the sense of humor of men like Yogi Berra and Casey Stengel appealed to my dad, and he’d use their quotes frequently accompanied by a big grin as if he told the joke successfully himself. The above Stengel quote was a favorite of his – and Casey Stengel had plenty of good ones – and he’d use that on the kids’ soccer team he coached, eyes twinkling with amusement as grade school soccer players tried to figure out how to work this one out. Eventually, he’d let them off the hook. Eventually. Usually, when he was nearing the point he couldn’t contain the laughter.
I’ll have to admit, I inherited my dad’s sense of humor and appreciation of quotes like the one above. And I may or may not have used it on a Sunday school class I was teaching. By “may or may not” I mean I actually used this quote. I’m certain my eyes twinkled with amusement as the kids tried to work just how they could accomplish this. Eventually, I let them off the hook. Eventually. It was about when I was nearing the point I couldn’t contain the laughter.
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