Ballads of Baseball By George Moriarty - 1922
TO ELBERFELD—TOBASCO KID
Tobasco Kid, while mem'ries stray you're back with your cyclonic play, down there at short, where years ago you stopped the enemy base blow, and blocked the runners as they slid into your shins, Tobasco Kid. We see you throwing out your hand on purpose so you could demand that you be sent to first base free, rewarded for the injury.
And when the umps would not allow you to proceed to first base, how you'd pick a big handful of dirt and pour it down the umpire's shirt, Nobody ever really know if you would play nine innings through.
The game would start sometimes at three, and at three-thirty you would be hot-footing it upon the path that led to the shower bath, because you slipped the ump a mint of things that never reached the print Yet, Kid, with all your fire and fluff. your stuff contained no braggo bluff: and we must have to dodge the count, your winning spirit, paramount. :
Jamaica NY Daily Long Island Farmer 1922 - Fulton History
March 6, 1922 - The Ogden (Utah) standard-examiner
Tobasco Kid, while mem'ries stray you're back with your cyclonic play, down there at short, where years ago you stopped the enemy base blow, and blocked the runners as they slid into your shins, Tobasco Kid. We see you throwing out your hand on purpose so you could demand that you be sent to first base free, rewarded for the injury.
And when the umps would not allow you to proceed to first base, how you'd pick a big handful of dirt and pour it down the umpire's shirt, Nobody ever really know if you would play nine innings through.
The game would start sometimes at three, and at three-thirty you would be hot-footing it upon the path that led to the shower bath, because you slipped the ump a mint of things that never reached the print Yet, Kid, with all your fire and fluff. your stuff contained no braggo bluff: and we must have to dodge the count, your winning spirit, paramount. :
Jamaica NY Daily Long Island Farmer 1922 - Fulton History
March 6, 1922 - The Ogden (Utah) standard-examiner