[Do you remember the Dizzy/Daffy two-hitter/no-hitter day at Ebbets Field?]

CLYDE SUKEFORTH: No, I wasn't there. I finished that year ['34?] in Albany.

[Do you remember Don Zimmer as a young ballplayer?]

Oh, yeah. Outstanding. Could run like a deer. Did everything pretty good.

[Ed Head pitched no-hitter in '46, then faded]

I don't know what happened to him. Dropped out all of a sudden. I had him in Montreal for a while. Real late one year. Just a few games.

[Do you remember Landis eliminating the strings that held the glove fingers together from '39-'50?]

Did Landis force that change? I never knew that. I suppose that they had guys around, idea men, who were experimenting and...the way everything else changed. Every year there'd be some changes made in something. Some radical changes, I mean.

[Did you know Pie Traynor?]

Very well. He was on that trip to Cuba. He's a good one, and that Glenn Wright was playing beside him, and if you got a hit through that left side of that Pittsburgh infield, you were lucky. Both of those guys....

[He had a reputation as being a great guy, too, unlike Hornsby]

Wright, too. Wright's a fine guy with him. They were a couple of great ones on the same club at the same time.

[Kiner says Traynor always walked to the ballpark]

I heard him say he never owned an automobile.

[He was a city guy?]

Somerville, Massachusetts.

[Sort of a small city?]

Well, it's a part of a built-up, a pretty big built-up section that's divided into a lot of different towns, but there were a lot of people living in that area. There were a lot of people living in the area even though it was divided into a number of different towns. [Cambridge, Boston] All those suburban towns, all the way down to Connecticut.

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