Bill Klem Quote

[Jonathan Lighter]

If you think I'm kidding...

Heisenberg published his Uncertainty Principle in 1927.

Schroedinger revealed his cruel cat experiment in 1935.

That means that the three-umpire version possibly antedates both - or
(perhaps more likely) may have been intended to to comment on both.

Anyway, that's how I want to look at.

JL
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Or is it the Schroedinger thing?
>
> Anyway, it's a profound statement on the nature of Reality. That's why
> baseball is now less popular than Pro Wrestling.
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> JL
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>  > It's Klem's Uncertainty Principle.
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> > JL
> >
> >   On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Ben Zimmer <
> > bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
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> >> > The quote I was thinking of was "It ain't nothing till I call it."
>  The
> >> quote Jon was posting
> >> > about, "I calls 'em as I sees 'em," seems not to be included in Paul
> >> Dickson's Baseball's
> >> > Greatest Quotations, although Dickson has a section of front matter
> >> titled "I Call 'Em As
> >> > I See 'Em."
> >> >
> >> > In addition to finding earlier evidence than 1948 for "It ain't
> nothing
> >> till I call it," perhaps
> >> > Garson or Sam or Bill or Stephen or Ben or someone else can find early
> >> evidence for
> >> > "I call 'em as I see 'em."  The earliest version I find in a quick
> >> ProQuest search is 1933
> >> > in the Boston Globe, where Klem is quoted denying that he called them
> as
> >> he saw them.
> >>
> >> There's a more elaborate version involving three apocryphal umpires,
> >> encompassing both lines:
> >>
> >> Umpire #1: "I calls 'em as they is."
> >> Umpire #2: "I calls 'em as I sees 'em."
> >> Umpire #3: "They ain't nothin' till I calls 'em."
> >>
> >> --bgz
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