Subject: Misspokements (Page 26)

Here they come, every color of the rainbow: black, white, brown.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

He can be lethal death.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Unstoppable, Baby!

professional basketball player

A husband’s conjungal and a wife’s convivial obligation.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

You could be like Anita O’Brien, hustlin’ fruits.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Go and shake a tower.

(1844 – 1930) English dean at Oxford whose name is given to the accidental transposition of sounds of two or more words

Jay Bell is 0-for-6 in this series with 10 homers and 52 RBIs.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

There's a deep fly ball… Winfield goes back, back… his head hits the wall… it's rolling towards second base.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

He’s a guy who gets up at six o’clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

(1931 – ) television newscaster

Hawaii doesn’t win many games in the United States.

Indiana University football coach & sports commentator

The Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I don’t know what that is.

professional baseball player

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.

(1913 – 2006) 36th U.S. president

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don’t deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

I paid too much for it, but it’s worth it.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

That’s the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

When they said Canada, I thought it was up in the mountains somewhere.

(1926 – 1962) actress, sex symbol

What’s everyone blaming me for? … Blame Felix; I wouldn’t have hit into the double-plays if he hadn’t hit singles.

American baseball player, manager & executive

Alesi is in second place, and Hill is in second place.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

If that ain’t the black calling the kettle pot!

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)