“I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.”

— Babe Ruth

Revisiting the May 1922 dirt-throwing, fan-chasing incident, in The Babe Ruth Story; reproduced in "Babe Ruth Quotes" http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quoruth.shtml at Baseball Almanac

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