Former Pirate slugger Ralph Kiner was telling his broadcasting buddy, Lindsey Nelson, about his wife, the former tennis star Nancy Chaffee.
”When I married Nancy, I vowed I’d beat her at tennis someday. After six months, she beat me 6-2. After a year, she beat me 6-4. After we were married a year and a half, I pushed her to 7-5. Then it happened – she had a bad day and I had a good one, and I beat hear 17-15.”
”Good for you, Ralph,” exclaimed Lindsey. “Was she sick?”
”Of course not!” Kiner snapped indignantly. “Well, she was eight months pregnant.”
Source:
Humes, James C. Speaker's Treasury of Anecdotes About the Famous. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. 21. Print.
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