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Babe Ruth

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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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On his temper flaring on 25 May 1922, when he threw dirt at an umpire and chased after a heckler in the stands, as quoted in The Rivals : The Boston Red Sox Vs. the New York Yankees; An Inside History (2004) by Dan Shaughnessy, p. 41

 
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