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"The Called Shot", the fabled home run hit by Babe Ruth in the 1932 World Series (I believe), when he supposedly pointed to the spot where the ball landed in the the outfield stands just before the pitch, is another famous use of the term (phrases from baseball?). Well after Annie Oakley, but certainly before the 1960s. (And, AnnaS...Babe Ruth was a Chicago Cub then!) 
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Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!  Aw, I just wanted to see if all our baseball freaks were on their toes!  but I must let my unseemly treasonous error stand...wow's gonna love this one...and me, once the walking baseball encyclopedia...ah, well And Ruth finished his career out with the Boston Braves, never did don a Cubbie uniform...sorry, folks! But I did get two great baseball sites to bookmark out of my embarrassment!...thanks, tsuwm! And I was just going to open Misc. with 101 new posts on it. Think I'll sign-off and go to sleep, now, instead. My apologies to The Babe!....and to the Yankees, too! Again...ouch! 
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Goodness, WO'N, you should apologize profusely. The Cubs, at least in modern history, have not had any first-class player, even one in the twilight of his career. I believe it was the Cubs who employed the only one-armed player in the major leagues. Now, here's a challenge: without looking it up, can you name the one-armed player? I can; my father saw him play and told me about it.
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Pete Gray and he played for the St. Louis Browns, not the Cubs. 1945, if memory serves. There's a movie about it called Winners Never Quit. YCLIU.
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Pete Gray it was. My father's take was that with the war on, there were so few men available they had to settle for him. And damn, it was the Browns, not the Cubs. The only team worse than the Cubs (or the Senators).
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Ruth finished his career out with the Boston Braves
Which brings up an interesting question. What did Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth and Willie Mays have in common? Besides being 1-2-3 in career home runs.
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but there has been a more recent one-arm player in the majors -- a pitcher!
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a more recent one-arm player in the majors
Or maybe just one-handed?
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