HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!
And speaking of all that’s green, thank you, Darrell Pittman, for this timely seasonal reminder of spring training in the first year of the newly renamed Houston Astros:
A column by Merrell Whittlesey
Washington Evening Star
March 18, 1965
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Bill McCurdy
Principal Writer, Editor, Publisher
March 18, 2019 at 1:11 am |
These days many players could buy their own luxury hotel to stay in (as long as the club would let them).
In the end, I suppose ballplayers are no different than I am (or than anyone else). We all tend to complain about something. It’s just that ballplayers’ complaints seem to smack too much of a sense of entitlement, even more so these days than in the past.