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“Look what the cat dragged in. If it ain’t Duke hisself.”

This one ain’t been used to fightin’ or even to providin’ for hisself, and more like he’s somewhere round the Park a-’idin’ an’ a-shiverin’ of, and, if he thinks at all, wonderin’ where he is to get his breakfast from; or maybe he’s got down some area and is in a coal-cellar.

When George Myatt became the Phillies’ third manager in 1969, he said, “Good God hisself couldn’t handle Richie Allen.”

“The Devil Hisself,” said Brian Tailor, who was a Scot and so had reason to feel that way.

“Look, there he go, dawg. Runnin’ back to his room to go finger-bang hisself.”