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Vin Scully tells amazing story about Satchel Paige winning bourbon from Whitey Herzog

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Vin Scully telling a story about Satchel Paige is going to be worth listening to every single time. After referencing the prior team called the Miami Marlins a Triple A club from 1956 1960 Scully launched into an amazing anecdote from the fascinating pitcher late career turn with the minor league club.

You can listen to Scully tell it beautifully in the video above, but because I think someone should probably be following Vin Scully around Nike Air Max 2016 and transcribing everything he says for posterity, I transcribed what he said here for posterity:

One of the things that Bill Veeck did as a promotion, he signed Satchel Paige, who was very close to being 50 years old and still pitched very well in Triple A. On that ballclub, back in 1956, was Whitey Herzog now a Hall of Fame manager.

But Whitey was an outfielder, and they were playing in Rochester, New York, and Herzog was out in the outfield and he noticed a promotional thing in the Rochester ballpark. There was a hole in the fence in center field, and above it was a sign you hit the ball in the air through the hole, you get $10,000. Herzog went back into the clubhouse, got a bunch of balls, went out to center field and tried to throw a ball through the hole. And he couldn do it. So then when he went back in before the game started, Whitey was talking to Satchel Paige. And he said, you see that hole out there in center field? Paige said, wild child. said, bet you a bottle of bourbon that you can throw the ball through that hole.

So the next day, before batting practice, Herzog got a bunch of balls and he took Satchel Paige out. Herzog marched off 60 feet, 6 inches from the hole. He gave Satchel Paige the ball.

He gave Satchel Paige the ball. And Satchel said, child, does the ball fit through the hole? Whitey Herzog said, it sure does. said, you have a bet. he held the ball up and looked over the ball like Nike Air Max 2016 he was aiming a rifle. Now, Paige winds up and throws. The ball goes into the hole, spins around, and pops out again. And Herzog thinks, mackerel! He never come any closer than that. picks up the next ball, aims: right through the hole. Clean as a whistle. He said, child, I will take that, and walked off the field.

Awesome. Satchel Paige was so cool.

Paige during his season with the Indians in 1948. (PHOTO: George Brace/AP Photo)

For what it worth, Paige pitching in his stint with the Marlins was hardly a joke: Playing with a bunch of dudes literally half his age, the Hall of Famer led the Marlins in ERA in the same season he (probably) turned 50.

He pitched well again in a five start tenure with the Triple A Portland Beavers in his age 54 season in 1961, and later threw three shutout innings in a cameo with the big league Kansas City Athletics at 59.