when I read about her trip to the ball game,
as if that was not bad enough the injury was so serious the umpires called time, after she was attended to for a short while, play resumed, the next pitch came in and Ashburn did the unthinkable, He sent another foul ball to the left side that hit Alice…while she was lying on a stretcher being carried out of the section, ouch! to be hit twice in the same game by the same hitter, what are the chances?
Ashburn, by the way, went 2-4 in that game with a double and a single, the Phillies ended up winning it 3-1, after his playing career was over, Ashburn became an announcer for the Phillies starting in 1963, a job which he kept until 1997, whilst commentating though he could not help but enjoy a pizza, during home games Ashburn would sometimes ask if anyone from nearby Celebre’s Pizza wouldn’t mind sending him over a free pizza, because Celebre’s was not an official sponsor of the Phillies, the organisation made him stop, to get around this, he would sometimes include with the birthday/anniversary wishes things like: “…special birthday wish to the Celebre’s twins, Plain & Pepperoni” to try to get them to send him a pizza, he sounds like a neat type of guy.
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