Arthur Baer Quotes


About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.


Citations

Dickson, Paul. Baseball's Greatest Quotations. HarperCollins, 1991, p. 30.

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  • Born: January 9, 1886
  • Died: May 17, 1969
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Journalist, Humorist

Arthur "Bugs" Baer was an American journalist and humorist. Baer was prominent in the New York City journalism and entertainment scene for many years and worked as a sports journalist and cartoonist. Called by The New York Times "one of the country's best-known humorists," he wrote the humor column "One Word Led to Another" for the King Features Syndicate (the Hearst papers).