Frank Crosetti

On this date in 2002, Frank Crosetti passed away at age 91.

"Those Cubs were a bunch of stooges. They were riding Ruth from the bench. It was strike one, strike two. He held up one finger, as if to say, 'I have one strike left.' Then he hits the ball for a homer. Later he tells me, 'If the writers want to think I pointed where I was going to hit the ball, let 'em.'" - on Babe Ruth's alleged called shot