"Born on third base" (1934)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> A genius is one who seems a wonder because he was born on third  base.

I kind of like the variant, said about George H. W. Bush by Jim Hightower,
that he was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.

Fred Shapiro


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