George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
Clairew Smith, a young black, female sports reporter, had been insulted and demeaned when she entered the team clubhouse after the game. The Baseball Commissioner had ruled that female reporter should have access to the team clubhouse after the games just like the male reportsers. But the team managment, none the less threw her out. Most of the players were in favor of the women being allowed in an finally pesuaded the managment to relent. But just after Smith had been ejected Steve Garvey followed her out into the hallway where she was crying. Then he made this statement and he did staey with her until she could regain her composure and write her column for the day. It was this kind of behavior that made Garvey a favorite amongst everyone and especially women.
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
