The Link, Vol. 4
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Excerpt from The Link, Vol. 4: August, 1946 The ballgame had been over a couple of hours. A weary man with high cheekbones, a long crooked nose and sensitive mouth sat in the cocktail lounge of the Oakland hotel, happily munching an apple while all about him other people were drinking liquor and talking loudly. "What´s your ambition, Pepper?" I asked, the morning papers having rumored his return from the Pacific Coast to the big league as a manager. "Ambition?" He looked up, as if surprised by the question. "My ambition is to go to Heaven." Prescott Sullivan of the San Francisco Examiner, one of those at our table, guffawed. "You wanta play a harp, eh?" he snorted. There was an embarrassing silence. John (Pepper) Martin, bellicose leader of the St. Louis Cardinals memorable Gas House Gang, hero of the 1931 World Series, stopped chewing." Mister, he snapped, I don´t think that´s funny." "I´m sorry if I offended you," Sullivan quickly apologized, noting the intense light in Pepper Martins eyes. "I didn´t realize." "That´s all right," Pepper said. "I suppose I should be used to it by now By Art Cohn but I´m not. People don´t want to be mean, I guess, but they sure do pretty well without trying. Just because I come from Oklahoma, they seem to think that makes me something to laugh at an illiterate Okie with a mattress on top of my car. "Well, I´ve always managed to pay my way. I raced midget autos, played in a band, coached football, managed an ice-hockey club, owned a fighter, drove a truck, rode the rods and gave my best to baseball for more than twenty years. I got by. Damon Runyon, Grantland Rice and all the rest said I was one of the greatest base-runners of all time. Yep, I always managed to pull my weight." Martin paused. No one spoke. Then: "All I´ve got to say, he continued softly, is that if there´s anything wrong in reading the Bible every day and believing what´s in it, if there´s anything wrong in a man´s wanting to go back to the soil and live the plain life of a farmer, if there´s anything wrong in raising vegetables and loving animals, if there´s anything funny about wanting to go to Heaven when you die - then I´m afraid life isn´t worth living. Nobody said anything at our table. There was no sound - except the crunching of Pepper Martins apple. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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