Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

This led to his getting drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1945 NFL Draft. Our relationship has not only been on the ballfield but off it. In January 1960 he was traded with two other players to the Philadelphia Phillies in exchange for Richie Ashburn; after hitting.

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