Josh, I wish you and Satchel played with me on the Cardinals. Hell, the pennant would be won by July 4th and we could go fishing until World Series time.

Circa October 1934 (following a post-season exhibition game between the Pittsburgh Crawfords and an MLB all-star team composed primarily of members of the 1934 World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals), as quoted in "Brown Bambino of Baseball: For Lack of an Offer" by Haskell Cohen, in The Baltimore Afro-American (July 18, 1942), p. 23