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"Well, I'm sitting with her (his wife of six months) about an hour into the flight when Bob Gibson and Bill White came over. I said, 'Bob, Bill, this is my wife Ginger.' They said in unison, 'Nellie, that's not the wife you introduced us to in Chicago.' Ginger fumed and would not look at me. I said, 'Guys, she doesn't understand. Tell her you're kidding.' They didn't. This seven hour flight in silence was interminable. Moments before landing, they told her it was a joke to show a rookie the ropes. Ginger still didn't warm up to me for two weeks." - Nelson Briles in Baseball Digest (October 1995)
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