Showing posts with label Pepper Martin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pepper Martin. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Pepper Martin


On this date in 1965, Pepper Martin passed away at age 61.

"I looked at my two hands and damned if I didn't have an umpire's throat between them."

Monday, August 26, 2013

Pepper Martin


On this date in 1949, Miami Sun Sox manager Pepper Martin of the Florida International League is fined $100 and suspended for the remaining two weeks of the season for choking an umpire.

"I got a jackass back in Oklahoma and you can work him from sunup till sundown and he ain't never going to win the Kentucky Derby." - on the benefits of working out

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Pepper Martin


On this date in 1965, Pepper Martin passed away at age 61.

"I looked at my two hands and damned if I didn't have an umpire's throat between them."

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Pepper Martin


Born on today's date, Pepper Martin.

"I looked at my two hands and darned if I didn't have an umpire's throat between them."